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Muragishi R, Sato M. Structures Formed by Particles with Shoulderlike Repulsive Interaction in Thin Systems. ACS OMEGA 2023; 8:30450-30458. [PMID: 37636963 PMCID: PMC10448489 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c03624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2023] [Accepted: 07/25/2023] [Indexed: 08/29/2023]
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When particles are constructed in thin systems between two parallel flat walls, structures that are not observed in bulk systems are created and the created structures change, depending on the width between the walls. In this study, the structures formed by particles constructed in thin systems were investigated through performing isothermal-isobaric Monte Carlo simulations, where the interaction between the particles is given by the hard-core square shoulder potential. By controlling the width of the shoulder-like repulsive interaction and the system width, several novel structures such as the connection of rhombuses and the square lattice of the (100) face of the body-centered cubic lattice were created.
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- Ryo Muragishi
- Graduate
School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, 920-1192 Kanazawa, Japan
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- Emerging
Media Initiative, Kanazawa University, 920-1192 Kanazawa, Japan
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Makinde ZO, van der Heijden NJ, Clyde D, Nam S, Brothers PJ, Malmström J, Granville S, Domigan LJ, McGillivray DJ, Williams DE. Geometric Frustration and Long-Range Ordering Induced by Surface Pressure Oscillation in a Langmuir-Blodgett Monolayer of Magnetic Soft Spheres. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2021; 37:10150-10158. [PMID: 34384020 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c01577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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As a step toward the bottom-up construction of magnonic systems, this paper demonstrates the use of a large-amplitude surface-pressure annealing technique to generate 2-D order in a Langmuir-Blodgett monolayer of magnetic soft spheres comprising a surfactant-encapsulated polyoxometalate. The films show a distorted square lattice interpreted as due to geometric frustration caused by 2-D confinement between soft walls, one being the air interface and the other the aqueous subphase. Hysteresis and relaxation phenomena in the 2-D layers are suggested to be due to folding and time-dependent interpenetration of surfactant chains.
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- Zainab O Makinde
- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, 23 Symonds St., Auckland 1010, New Zealand
- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, 23 Symonds St., Auckland 1010, New Zealand
- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, 23 Symonds St., Auckland 1010, New Zealand
- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, 23 Symonds St., Auckland 1010, New Zealand
- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, 23 Symonds St., Auckland 1010, New Zealand
- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
- Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
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- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, The University of Auckland, 20 Symonds St., Auckland 1010, New Zealand
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- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
- Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, The University of Auckland, 20 Symonds St., Auckland 1010, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, 23 Symonds St., Auckland 1010, New Zealand
- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, 23 Symonds St., Auckland 1010, New Zealand
- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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Antlanger M, Doppelbauer G, Mazars M, Kahl G. Crystal phases of soft spheres systems in a slab geometry. J Chem Phys 2014; 140:044507. [PMID: 25669555 DOI: 10.1063/1.4862499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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We have identified the ground state configurations of soft particles (interacting via inverse power potentials) confined between two hard, impenetrable walls. To this end we have used a highly reliable optimization scheme at vanishing temperature while varying the wall separation over a representative range. Apart from the expected layered triangular and square structures (which are compatible with the three-dimensional bulk fcc lattice), we have identified a cascade of highly complex intermediate structures. Taking benefit of the general scaling properties of inverse power potentials, we could identify - for a given softness value - one single master curve which relates the energy to the wall separation, irrespective of the density of the system. Via extensive Monte Carlo simulations, we have performed closer investigations of these intermediate structures at finite temperature: we could provide evidence to which extent these particle arrangements remain stable over a relatively large temperature range.
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- Moritz Antlanger
- Institut für Theoretische Physik and Center for Computational Materials Science (CMS), Technische Universität Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, A-1040 Wien, Austria
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik and Center for Computational Materials Science (CMS), Technische Universität Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, A-1040 Wien, Austria
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- Laboratoire de Physique Théorique (UMR 8627), Université de Paris-Sud and CNRS, Bâtiment 210, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik and Center for Computational Materials Science (CMS), Technische Universität Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, A-1040 Wien, Austria
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Oğuz EC, Reinmüller A, Schöpe HJ, Palberg T, Messina R, Löwen H. Crystalline multilayers of charged colloids in soft confinement: experiment versus theory. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2012; 24:464123. [PMID: 23114225 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/24/46/464123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We combine real-space experiments and lattice sum calculations to investigate the phase diagram of charged colloidal particles under soft confinement. In the experiments we explore the equilibrium phase diagram of charged colloidal spheres in aqueous suspensions confined between two parallel charged walls at low background salt concentrations. Motivated by the experiments, we perform lattice sum minimizations to predict the crystalline ground state of point-like Yukawa particles which are exposed to a soft confining wall potential. In the multilayered crystalline regime, we obtain good agreement between the experimental and numerical findings: upon increasing the density we recover the sequence [structure: see text].
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- E C Oğuz
- Institut für Theoretische Physik II, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Doppelbauer G, Noya EG, Bianchi E, Kahl G. Competing ordered structures formed by particles with a regular tetrahedral patch decoration. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2012; 24:284124. [PMID: 22738895 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/24/28/284124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We study the ordered equilibrium structures of patchy particles where the patches are located on the surface of the colloid such that they form a regular tetrahedron. Using optimization techniques based on ideas of evolutionary algorithms we identify possible candidate structures. We retain not only the energetically most favourable lattices but also include a few energetically less favourable particle arrangements (i.e., local minima on the enthalpy landscape). Using suitably developed Monte Carlo based simulation techniques in an NPT ensemble we evaluate the thermodynamic properties of these candidate structures along selected isobars and isotherms and identify thereby the respective ranges of stability. We demonstrate on a quantitative level that the equilibrium structures at a given state point result from a delicate compromise between entropy, energy (i.e., the lattice sum) and packing.
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- Günther Doppelbauer
- Institut für Theoretische Physik and Center for Computational Materials Science, Technische Universität Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, A-1040 Wien, Austria.
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Bianchi E, Doppelbauer G, Filion L, Dijkstra M, Kahl G. Predicting patchy particle crystals: Variable box shape simulations and evolutionary algorithms. J Chem Phys 2012; 136:214102. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4722477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Curk T, de Hoogh A, Martinez-Veracoechea FJ, Eiser E, Frenkel D, Dobnikar J, Leunissen ME. Layering, freezing, and re-entrant melting of hard spheres in soft confinement. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2012; 85:021502. [PMID: 22463214 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.85.021502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Confinement can have a dramatic effect on the behavior of all sorts of particulate systems, and it therefore is an important phenomenon in many different areas of physics and technology. Here, we investigate the role played by the softness of the confining potential. Using grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations, we determine the phase diagram of three-dimensional hard spheres that in one dimension are constrained to a plane by a harmonic potential. The phase behavior depends strongly on the density and on the stiffness of the harmonic confinement. While we find the familiar sequence of confined hexagonal and square-symmetric packings, we do not observe any of the usual intervening ordered phases. Instead, the system phase separates under strong confinement, or forms a layered re-entrant liquid phase under weaker confinement. It is plausible that this behavior is due to the larger positional freedom in a soft confining potential and to the contribution that the confinement energy makes to the total free energy. The fact that specific structures can be induced or suppressed by simply changing the confinement conditions (e.g., in a dielectrophoretic trap) is important for applications that involve self-assembled structures of colloidal particles.
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- Tine Curk
- Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Koroška c. 160, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia
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Antlanger M, Doppelbauer G, Kahl G. On the stability of Archimedean tilings formed by patchy particles. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2011; 23:404206. [PMID: 21931193 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/23/40/404206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We have investigated the possibility of decorating, using a bottom-up strategy, patchy particles in such a way that they self-assemble in (two-dimensional) Archimedean tilings. Except for the trihexagonal tiling, we have identified conditions under which this is indeed possible. The more compact tilings, i.e., the elongated triangular and the snub square tilings (which are built up by triangles and squares only) are found to be stable up to intermediate pressure values in the vertex representation, i.e., where the tiling is decorated with particles at its vertices. The other tilings, which are built up by rather large hexagons, octagons and dodecagons, are stable over a relatively large pressure range in the centre representation where the particles occupy the centres of the polygonal units.
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- Moritz Antlanger
- Institut für Theoretische Physik and Centre for Computational Materials Science (CMS),Technische Universität Wien, Wien, Austria
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