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Phase Diagram of a Reentrant Gel of Patchy Particles
Sándalo Roldán-Vargas, Frank Smallenburg, Walter Kob +1
We study the phase diagram of a binary mixture of patchy particles which has been designed to form a reversible gel. For this we perform Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulati…
Understanding tetrahedral liquids through patchy colloids
Ivan Saika-Voivod, Frank Smallenburg, Francesco Sciortino
We investigate the structural properties of a simple model for tetrahedral patchy colloids in which the patch width and the patch range can be tuned independently. For wide bond an…
Liquids more stable than crystals
Frank Smallenburg, Francesco Sciortino
All liquids (except helium due to quantum effects) crystallize at low temperatures, forming ordered structures. The competition between disorder, which stabilizes the liquid phase,…
Gelling by Heating
Sandalo Roldan-Vargas, Frank Smallenburg, Walter Kob +1
We introduce a simple model, a binary mixture of patchy particles, which has been designed to form a gel upon heating. Due to the specific nature of the particle interactions, nota…