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We investigate the self-assembly of amphiphilic nanocubes under rest and shear using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) calculations. These particles combine both interaction and shape anisotropy, making them…
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We investigate theoretically the formation of collective excitations in atomic scale quasi-one dimensional metallic nanostructures. The response of the system is calculated within the linear response theory and random phase approximation.…
Motivated by often contradictory literature reports on size dependence of surface energy of gold nanoparticles, we performed an atomistic study combining molecular dynamics and \textit{ab initio} calculations. We show that in the case of Au…
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