Self-assembly of trimer colloids: effect of shape and interaction range

Hatch, Harold W.; Yang, Seung-Yeob; Mittal, Jeetain; Shen, Vincent K.

doi:10.1039/c6sm00473c

Title: Self-assembly of trimer colloids: effect of shape and interaction range

Journal Article · Tue Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Soft Matter

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/c6sm00473c· OSTI ID:1467017

Hatch, Harold W. ^[1]; Yang, Seung-Yeob ^[1]; Mittal, Jeetain ^[2]; Shen, Vincent K. ^[1]

National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States). Chemical Informatics Research Group
Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA (United States). Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Trimers with one attractive bead and two repulsive beads, similar to recently synthesized trimer patchy colloids, were simulated with flat-histogram Monte Carlo methods to obtain the stable self-assembled structures for different shapes and interaction potentials. Extended corresponding states principle was then successfully applied to self-assembling systems in order to approximately collapse the results for models with the same shape, but different interaction range. This helps us directly compare simulation results with previous experiment, and good agreement was found between the two. In addition, a variety of self-assembled structures were observed by varying the trimer geometry, including spherical clusters, elongated clusters, monolayers, and spherical shells. In conclusion, our results help to compare simulations and experiments, via extended corresponding states, and we predict the formation of self-assembled structures for trimer shapes that have not been experimentally synthesized.

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Research Organization:: National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0013979; TG-MCB-120014

OSTI ID:: 1467017

Journal Information:: Soft Matter, Vol. 12, Issue 18; ISSN 1744-683X

Publisher:: Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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