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Ordered structures formed of 300-μm-long cylindrical nylon grains with diameters of 15 and 7.5 μm are obtained. In contrast to conventional spherical monodisperse grains, which, under certain conditions, form the plasma-dust Coulomb crystal, the cylindrical grains in the plasma acquire a charge of ∼7×10 5 electrons and form a structure similar to a liquid crystal. The parameter characterizing the nonideality of the dusty component of the plasma attains 10 6 . Grains are suspended in the striation in the horizontal plane and line up in parallel with each other.
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Molotkov et al. (2000) studied this question.
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