Self-assembled structures of colloidal dimers and disks on a spherical surface
Soft Condensed Matter
2021-06-11 v1 Computational Physics
Abstract
We study the 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 have a hard core, but one monomer of the dimer also interacts with the guest particle by means of a short-range attractive potential. We observe the formation of aggregates of various shape 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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@article{arxiv.2106.05559,
title = {Self-assembled structures of colloidal dimers and disks on a spherical surface},
author = {Nkosinathi Dlamini and Santi Prestipino and Giuseppe Pellicane},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.05559},
year = {2021}
}
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16 pages, 7 figures