Self-assembly and entropic effects in pear-shaped colloid systems: II. Depletion attraction of pear-shaped particles in a hard sphere solvent
arXiv:2004.02647 · doi:10.1063/5.0007287
Abstract
We consider depletion effects of a pear-shaped colloidal particle in a hard-sphere solvent, for two different model realisations of the pear-shaped colloidal particle. The two models are the pear hard Gaussian overlap (PHGO) particles and the hard pears of revolution (HPR). The motivation for this study is to provide a microscopic understanding for the substantially different mesoscopic self-assembly properties of these pear-shaped colloids, in dense suspensions, that have been reported in the first part of this series. This is done by determining the differing depletion attraction via MC simulations of PHGO and HPR particles in a pool of a hard spherical solvent and comparing them with excluded volume calculations of numerically obtained ideal configurations on the microscopic level. While the HPR model behaves as predicted by the analysis of excluded volumes, the PHGO model showcases a preference for splay between neighbouring particles, which can be attributed to the special non-additive characteristics of the PHGO contact function. Lastly, we propose a potentially experimentally realisable pear-shaped particle model, the non-additive hard pear of revolution (NAHPR) model, which is based on the HPR model but also features non-additive traits similar to those of PHGO particles to mimic their depletion behaviour.
arXiv comment26 pages, 9 figures
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