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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Size limits of self-assembled colloidal structures made using specific interactions
Beteiligte:
Zeravcic, Zorana;
Manoharan, Vinothan N.;
Brenner, Michael P.
Erschienen:
National Academy of Sciences, 2014
Erschienen in:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Sprache:
Englisch
ISSN:
0027-8424
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Beschreibung:
<p>We establish size limitations for assembling structures of controlled size and shape out of colloidal particles with short-ranged interactions. Through simulations we show that structures with highly variable shapes made out of dozens of particles can form with high yield, as long as each particle in the structure binds only to the particles in their local environment. To understand this, we identify the excited states that compete with the ground-state structure and demonstrate that these excited states have a completely topological characterization, valid when the interparticle interactions are short-ranged. This allows complete enumeration of the energy landscape and gives bounds on how large a colloidal structure can assemble with high yield. For large structures the yield can be significant, even with hundreds of particles.</p>