Self-Assembled Structures of Colloidal Dimers and Disks on a Spherical Surface

We study self-assembly on a spherical surface of a model for a binary mixture of amphiphilic dimers in the presence of guest particles via Monte Carlo (MC) computer simulation. All particles had a hard core, but one monomer of the dimer also interacted with the guest particle by means of a short-ran...

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Autores principales: Dlamini, Nkosinathi, Prestipino, Santi, Pellicane, Giuseppe
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8151720/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34065124
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e23050585
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description We study self-assembly on a spherical surface of a model for a binary mixture of amphiphilic dimers in the presence of guest particles via Monte Carlo (MC) computer simulation. All particles had a hard core, but one monomer of the dimer also interacted with the guest particle by means of a short-range attractive potential. We observed the formation of aggregates of various shapes as a function of the composition of the mixture and of the size of guest particles. Our MC simulations are a further step towards a microscopic understanding of experiments on colloidal aggregation over curved surfaces, such as oil droplets.
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spelling pubmed-81517202021-05-27 Self-Assembled Structures of Colloidal Dimers and Disks on a Spherical Surface Dlamini, Nkosinathi Prestipino, Santi Pellicane, Giuseppe Entropy (Basel) Article We study self-assembly on a spherical surface of a model for a binary mixture of amphiphilic dimers in the presence of guest particles via Monte Carlo (MC) computer simulation. All particles had a hard core, but one monomer of the dimer also interacted with the guest particle by means of a short-range attractive potential. We observed the formation of aggregates of various shapes as a function of the composition of the mixture and of the size of guest particles. Our MC simulations are a further step towards a microscopic understanding of experiments on colloidal aggregation over curved surfaces, such as oil droplets. MDPI 2021-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8151720/ /pubmed/34065124 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e23050585 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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