Soft-patchy nanoparticles: modeling and self-organization

Autor(en)

Emanuela Bianchi, Barbara Capone, Gerhard Kahl, Christos N. Likos

Abstrakt

We consider a novel class of patchy particles inspired by polymer-based complex units where the limited valence in bonding is accompanied by soft interactions and incessant fluctuations of the patch positions, possibly leading to reversible modifications of the patch number and size. We introduce a simple model that takes into account the aforementioned features and we focus on the role played by the patch flexibility on the self-organization of our patchy units in the bulk, with particular attention to the connectivity properties and the morphology of the aggregated networks.

Organisation(en)

Computergestützte Physik und Physik der Weichen Materie

Externe Organisation(en)

Technische Universität Wien

Journal

Faraday Discussions

Band

181

Seiten

123-138

Anzahl der Seiten

16

ISSN

1359-6640

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1039/c4fd00271g

Publikationsdatum

2015

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

103036 Theoretische Physik, 103015 Kondensierte Materie, 103018 Materialphysik, 103029 Statistische Physik

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/2fe626e4-7e96-4bd4-8470-b742f50e2824