Soft-patchy nanoparticles: modeling and self-organization
- Author(s)
- Emanuela Bianchi, Barbara Capone, Gerhard Kahl, Christos N. Likos
- Abstract
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(s)
- Computational and Soft Matter Physics
- External organisation(s)
- Technische Universität Wien
- Journal
- Faraday Discussions
- Volume
- 181
- Pages
- 123-138
- No. of pages
- 16
- ISSN
- 1359-6640
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c4fd00271g
- Publication date
- 2015
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103036 Theoretical physics, 103015 Condensed matter, 103018 Materials physics, 103029 Statistical physics
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/2fe626e4-7e96-4bd4-8470-b742f50e2824