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Characterizing emergent multiscale dynamics in colloidal nanoparticle gels
William D. Brackett, Zachary M. Sherman, Felix Lehmkühler +2
Colloidal gels assembled from nanoparticles (NPs) are a versatile class of soft network-based materials capable of rich dynamic, mechanical, and even optical or magnetic responses…
relentless: Transparent, reproducible molecular dynamics simulations for optimization
Adithya N Sreenivasan, C. Levi Petix, Zachary M. Sherman +1
relentless is an open-source Python package that enables the optimization of objective functions computed using molecular dynamics simulations. It has a high-level, extensible inte…
Immersed boundary method for dynamic simulation of polarizable colloids of arbitrary shape in explicit ion electrolytes
Emily Krucker-Velasquez, James W. Swan, Zachary Sherman
We develop a computational method for modeling electrostatic interactions of arbitrarily-shaped, polarizable objects on colloidal length scales, including colloids/nanoparticles, p…
Effects of linker flexibility on phase behavior and structure of linked colloidal gels
Michael P. Howard, Zachary M. Sherman, Adithya N Sreenivasan +4
Colloidal nanocrystal gels can be assembled using a difunctional "linker" molecule to mediate bonding between nanocrystals. The conditions for gelation and the structure of the gel…
Wertheim's thermodynamic perturbation theory with double-bond association and its application to colloid-linker mixtures
Michael P. Howard, Zachary M. Sherman, Delia J. Milliron +1
We extend Wertheim's thermodynamic perturbation theory to derive the association free energy of a multicomponent mixture for which double bonds can form between any two pairs of th…
Inverse methods for design of soft materials
Zachary M. Sherman, Michael P. Howard, Beth A. Lindquist +2
Functional soft materials, comprising colloidal and molecular building blocks that self-organize into complex structures as a result of their tunable interactions, enable a wide ar…
Universal Gelation of Metal Oxide Nanocrystals via Depletion Attractions
Camila A. Saez Cabezas, Zachary M. Sherman, Michael P. Howard +6
Nanocrystal gelation provides a powerful framework to translate nanoscale properties into bulk materials and to engineer emergent properties through the assembled microstructure. H…