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A solvent-flux theory for nonequilibrium swelling dynamics of thermoresponsive microgels
Arturo Moncho-Jordá, Alessandro Patti, Fabián A. García-Daza +1
Thermoresponsive microgels undergo large reversible size changes as temperature alters solvent quality. Predicting their nonequilibrium swelling and deswelling kinetics is challeng…
Shaping the aggregates of discotic particles with directional pair interactions
B. Martínez-Haya, N. Morillo, A. Cuetos
Aggregation processes in systems of planar macromolecules and colloids drive a broad range of phenomena in natural systems and soft materials. Depending on chemical architecture, i…
Diffusion of Tracer Particles in Early Growing Biofilms. A Computer Simulation Study
Fabian A. Garcia Daza, Alvaro Rodriguez-Rivas, Fernando Govantes +1
The diffusion of particles in complex media has gained significant interest due to its dual relevance: probing the viscoelastic properties of materials via microrheology and assess…
Relevance of the Computational Models of Bacterial Interactions in the simulation of Biofilm Growth
Gabriel Santos-Díaz, Álvaro Rodríguez-Rivas, Alejandro Cuetos
This study explores the application of elongated particle interaction models, traditionally used in liquid crystal phase research, in the context of early bacterial biofilm develop…
Vapour-Liquid equilibrium and low-temperature liquid-crystal phase diagram of discotic colloids
Alejandro Cuetos and, Bruno Martínez-Haya, José Manuel Romero-Enrique
Discotic colloids give rise to a paradigmatic family of liquid crystals with sound applications in Materials Science. In this paper, Monte Carlo simulations are employed to charact…
Effects of charge and size on the coadsorption of counterionic colloids in Gibbs monolayers
J. M. Gómez-Verdú, B. Martínez-Haya, A. Cuetos
This study uses a coarse-grained Monte Carlo algorithm to model and simulate the coadsorption of a binary mixture of counterionic colloids in Gibbs monolayers. These monolayers for…
Dynamics in field-induced biaxial nematic liquid crystals of board-like particles
Álvaro Rodríguez-Rivas, Alessandro Patti, Alejandro Cuetos
Biaxial nematic () liquid crystals have been indicated as promising candidates for the design of next-generation displays with novel electro-optical properties and faster swit…
Influence of homeostatic mechanisms of bacterial growth and division on structural properties of biofilms. A computer simulation study
Andrés Delgado-Campos, Alejandro Cuetos
Bacterial growth and division generally occur by the process known as binary fission, in which the cells grow polarly until they divide into two daughter cells. Although this proce…
Dynamics of Colloidal Cubes and Cuboids in Cylindrical Nanopores
Alessandro Patti, Alejandro Cuetos
Understanding how colloidal suspensions behave in confined environments has a striking relevance in practical applications. Despite the fact that the behaviour of colloids in the b…
Microrheology of colloidal suspensions via Dynamic Monte Carlo simulations
Fabián A. García Daza, Antonio M. Puertas, Alejandro Cuetos +1
Understanding the rheology of colloidal suspensions is crucial in the formulation of a wide selection of industry-relevant products. To characterise the viscoelastic behaviour of t…
Dynamics of Uniaxial-to-Biaxial Nematics Switching in Suspensions of Hard Cuboids
Effran Mirzad Rafael, Luca Tonti, Daniel Corbett +2
Field-induced reorientation of colloidal particles is especially relevant to manipulate the optical properties of a nanomaterial for target applications. We have recently shown tha…
Polymer-induced microcolony compaction in early biofilms: a computer simulation study
Francisco Javier Lobo-Cabrera, Alessandro Patti, Fernando Govantes +1
Microscopic organisms, such as bacteria, have the ability of colonizing surfaces and developing biofilms that can determine diseases and infections. Most bacteria secrete a signifi…
Dynamic Monte Carlo Simulations of Inhomogeneous Colloidal Suspensions
Fabián A. García Daza, Alejandro Cuetos, Alessandro Patti
The Dynamic Monte Carlo (DMC) method is an established molecular simulation technique for the analysis of the dynamics in colloidal suspensions. An excellent alternative to Brownia…
Self-assembly of Freely-rotating Polydisperse Cuboids: Unveiling the Boundaries of the Biaxial Nematic Phase
Effran Mirzad Rafael, Daniel Corbett, Alejandro Cuetos +1
Colloidal cuboids have the potential to self-assemble into biaxial liquid crystal phases, which exhibit two independent optical axes. Over the last few decades, several theoretical…
Dynamics of Hard Colloidal Cuboids in Nematic Liquid Crystals
Alejandro Cuetos, Alessandro Patti
We perform Dynamic Monte Carlo simulations to investigate the equilibrium dynamics of hard colloidal cuboids in oblate and prolate nematic liquid crystals. In particular, we charac…
Brownian dynamics simulations of oblate and prolate colloidal particles in nematic liquid crystals
Neftalí Morillo, Alessandro Patti, Alejandro Cuetos
It is well known that understanding the transport properties of liquid crystals (LCs) is crucial to optimise their performance in a number of technological applications. In this wo…
Biaxial Nematics of Hard Cuboids in an External Field
Alejandro Cuetos, Effran Mirzad Rafael, Daniel Corbett +1
We investigate the phase behavior of colloidal suspensions of board-like particles under the effect of an external field and assess the still disputed occurrence of the biaxial nem…
Is Fickian Yet Non-Gaussian Diffusion Ubiquitous?
Alejandro Cuetos, Neftalí Morillo, Alessandro Patti
Recent studies unveiled the Fickian yet non-Gaussian (FNG) dynamics of many soft matter systems and suggested this phenomenon as a general characteristic of the diffusion in comple…
Dynamic Monte Carlo algorithm for out-of-equilibrium processes in colloidal dispersions
Daniel Corbett, Alejandro Cuetos, Matthew Dennison +1
Colloids have a striking relevance in a wide spectrum of industrial formulations, spanning from personal care products to protective paints. Their behaviour can be easily influence…
Monte Carlo simulation of binary mixtures of hard colloidal cuboids
Alessandro Patti, Alejandro Cuetos
We perform extensive Monte Carlo simulations to investigate the phase behaviour of colloidal suspensions of hard board-like particles (HBPs). While theories restricting particle or…
A Case Study of Sedimentation of Charged Colloids: The Primitive Model and the Effective One-Component Approach
Aldemar Torres, Alejandro Cuetos, Marjolein Dijkstra +1
Sedimentation-diffusion equilibrium density profiles of suspensions of charge-stabilized colloids are calculated theoretically and by Monte Carlo simulation, both for a one-compone…