Exotic self-assembly of hard spheres in a morphometric solvent.

ABSTRACT: The self-assembly of spheres into geometric structures, under various theoretical conditions, offers valuable insights into complex self-assembly processes in soft systems. Previous studies have utilized pair potentials between spheres to assemble maximum contact clusters in simulations and experiments. The morphometric approach to solvation free energy that we utilize here goes beyond pair potentials; it is a geometry-based theory that incorporates a weighted combination of geometric measures over the solvent accessible surface for solute configurations in a solvent. In this paper, we demonstrate that employing the morphometric model of solvation free energy in simulating the self-assembly of sphere clusters results, under most conditions, in the previously observed maximum contact cluste

SUBMITTER: Spirandelli I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11009619 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature