Computer simulations using Monte Carlo method in the isobaric-isothermal ensemble were used to investigate the impact of nanoinclusions in the form of very narrow channels in the [ 111 ] -direction on elastic properties of crystals, whose particles interact via Yukawa potential. The studies were performed for several selected values of Debye screening length ( ( κ σ ) - 1 ). It has been observed that introduction of the nanoinclusions into the system reduces the negative value of Poisson's ratio towards [ 110 ] [ 1 1 ¯ 0 ] , maintaining practically constant values of Poisson's ratio in the directions [ 100 ] and [ 111 ] . These studies also show that concentration of particles forming the nanoinclusions in the system has a significant effect on the value of Poisson's ratio in the [ 110 ] [ 1 1 ¯ 0 ] -direction. A strong (more than fourfold) decrease of Poisson's ratio in this direction was observed, from - 0.147 ( 3 ) (system without inclusions) to - 0.614 ( 14 ) (system with nanoinclusions) at κ σ = 10 when the inclusion particles constituted about 10 percent of all particles. The research also showed an increase in the degree of auxeticity in the system with increasing concentration of nanoinclusion particles for all the screening lengths considered.
Keywords: auxetics; colloidal crystal; model of nanocomposite; nanochannel; negative Poisson’s ratio.