title: Effects of scars on icosahedral crystalline shell stability under external pressure.
abstract: We study how the stability of spherical crystalline shells under external pressure is influenced by the defect structure. In particular, we compare stability for shells with a minimal set of topologically required defects to shells with extended defect arrays (grain boundary "scars" with nonvanishing net disclination charge). We perform both Monte Carlo and conjugate gradient simulations to compare how shells with and without scars deform quasistatically under external hydrostatic pressure. We find that the critical pressure at which shells collapse is lowered for scarred configurations that break icosahedral symmetry and raised for scars that preserve icosahedral symmetry. The particular shapes which arise from breaking of an initial icosahedrally symmetric shell depend on the Föppl-von Kármán number.
authors: Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA.
authors: Duanduan
authors: D
authors: Wan
authors: Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA.|Syracuse Biomaterials Institute, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA.
authors: Mark J
authors: MJ
authors: Bowick
authors: Division of Physics and Division of Computational Biology, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, United Kingdom.
authors: Rastko
authors: R
authors: Sknepnek
mesh_terms: D004548:Elasticity; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D011312:Pressure