Self-Assembly in an Experimentally Realistic Model of Lobed Patchy Colloids.

ABSTRACT: Colloids with lobed architectures have been shown to self-assemble into promising porous structures with potential biomedical applications. The synthesis of these colloids via experiments can be tuned to vary the number and the position of the lobes. However, the polydispersity involving the numbers, sizes, and the dispositions of lobes, that is often observed in particle designs, can significantly affect their self-assembled structures. In this work, we go beyond the uniform lobe size conditions commonly considered in molecular simulations, and probe the effect of polydispersity due to non-uniform lobe sizes by studying self-assembly in three experimentally observable designs of lobed particles (dumbbell, two lobes; trigonal planar, three lobes; and tetrahedral, four lobes), using coarse-

SUBMITTER: Kalapurakal RAM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10880053 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature