Self-Assembly in Mixtures of Charged Lobed Particles

We report coarse-grained Langevin dynamics simulations of homogeneous mixtures of lobed colloidal particles with opposite charges. We show that dumbbell, trigonal planar, tetrahedral, square planar, trigonal bipyramidal, and octahedral shaped particles form distinct self-assemblies including chains,...

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Main Authors: Arpita Srivastava, Brunno C. Rocha, Harish Vashisth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Physics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2022.936385/full