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cond-mat.soft2017★ 31 cited

Colloidal particle adsorption at water/water interfaces with ultra-low interfacial tension

Louis Keal, Carlos E. Colosqui, Hans Tromp +1

Using fluorescence microscopy we study the adsorption of single latex microparticles at a water/water interface between demixing aqueous solutions of polymers, generally known as a…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 20 cited

Entropic patchiness drives multi-phase coexistence in discotic colloid-depletant mixtures

Á. González García, H. H. Wensink, H. N. W. Lekkerkerker +1

Entropy-driven equilibrium phase behaviour of hard particle dispersions can be understood from excluded volume arguments only. While monodisperse hard spheres only exhibit a fluid-…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 18 cited

Connectedness percolation of hard deformed rods

Tara Drwenski, Simone Dussi, Marjolein Dijkstra +2

Nanofiller particles, such as carbon nanotubes or metal wires, are used in functional polymer composites to make them conduct electricity. They are often not perfectly straight cyl…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 84 cited

Tuning the motility and directionality of self-propelled colloids

Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano, Sela Samin, Celia Lozano +3

Microorganisms are able to overcome the thermal randomness of their surroundings by harvesting energy to navigate in viscous fluid environments. In a similar manner, synthetic coll…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 14 cited

Microphase separation in oil-water mixtures containing hydrophilic and hydrophobic ions

Nikos Tasios, Sela Samin, René van Roij +1

We develop a lattice-based Monte Carlo simulation method for charged mixtures capable of treating dielectric heterogeneities. Using this method, we study oil-water mixtures contain…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 9 cited

Phase and vacancy behaviour of hard "slanted" cubes

Robin van Damme, Berend van der Meer, Jette Janine van den Broeke +2

We use computer simulations to study the phase behaviour for hard, right rhombic prisms as a function of the angle of their rhombic face (the "slant" angle). More specifically, usi…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 29 cited

Self-organisation of semi-flexible rod-like particles

Bart de Braaf, Mariana Oshima Menegon, Stefan Paquay +1

We report on a comprehensive computer simulation study of the liquid-crystal phase behaviour of purely repulsive, semi-flexible rod-like particles. For the four aspect ratios we co…

cond-mat.soft2017

On the Kinetics of Body versus End Evaporation and Addition of Supramolecular Polymers

Nitin S. Tiwari, Paul van der Schoot

Although pathway-specific kinetic theories are fundamentally important to describe and understand reversible polymerisation kinetics, they come in principle at a cost of having a l…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 57 cited

Non-Equilibrium Surface Tension of the Vapour-Liquid Interface of Active Lennard-Jones Particles

Siddharth Paliwal, Vasileios Prymidis, Laura Filion +1

We study a three-dimensional system of self-propelled Brownian particles interacting via the Lennard-Jones potential. Using Brownian Dynamics simulations in an elongated simulation…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 18 cited

Impact of Interaction Range and Curvature on Crystal Growth of Particles Confined to Spherical Surfaces

Stefan Paquay, Gert-Jan Both, Paul van der Schoot

When colloidal particles form a crystal phase on a spherical template, their packing is governed by the effective interaction between them and the elastic strain of bending the gro…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 12 cited

Colloid-oil-water-interface interactions in the presence of multiple salts: charge regulation and dynamics

Jeffrey C. Everts, Sela Samin, Nina. A. Elbers +3

We theoretically and experimentally investigate colloid-oil-water-interface interactions of charged, sterically stabilized, poly(methyl-methacrylate) colloidal particles dispersed…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 96 cited

Phoretic Interactions Between Active Droplets

Pepijn G. Moerman, Henrique W. Moyses, Ernest B. van der Wee +5

Concentration gradients play a critical role in embryogenesis, bacterial locomotion, as well as the motility of active particles. Particles develop concentration profiles around th…