Patchy Colloids
- Author(s)
- Emanuela Bianchi
- Abstract
Directional interactions, selective bonding, and limited valence are nowadays considered among the key ingredients to create complex, self-assembled architectures with tailored properties. Suitably designed coarse-grained models of anisotropically interacting units allow us to investigate the collective behavior of a wide variety of systems, ranging from atomic/molecular to colloidal or polymer-based systems. Particles interacting via directional and possibly selective potentials can model, for instance, water, silicon, and carbon, at the molecular scale, as well as appropriately synthesized patchy colloids, at the nano- and microscale. This chapter focuses on the theoretical and numerical description of patchy model units, illustrating how the basic features of the single particles can be used to design materials via the self-assembly route.
- Organisation(s)
- Computational and Soft Matter Physics
- Pages
- 37-60
- No. of pages
- 24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102302-0.00003-1
- Publication date
- 2019
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103029 Statistical physics
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, General Materials Science
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/d32e6664-ae1b-4abb-9737-4c043784e7df