4 papers
Vacancy defects in square-triangle tilings and their implications for quasicrystals formed by square-shoulder particles
Alptuğ Ulugöl, Giovanni Del Monte, Eline K. Kempkes +2
Almost all observed square-triangle quasicrystals in soft-matter systems contain a large number of point-like defects, yet the role these defects play in stabilizing the quasicryst…
Linking structure and optical properties of plasmonic nanoparticles on tunable spherical surfaces
Francesco Brasili, Angela Capocefalo, Giovanni Del Monte +8
The complexation of plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) and thermoresponsive microgels is widely exploited for applications, but a microscopic description of the mechanisms governing the…
Numerical study of neutral and charged microgel suspensions: from single-particle to collective behavior
Giovanni Del Monte, Emanuela Zaccarelli
We perform extensive Molecular Dynamics simulations of an ensemble of realistic microgel particles in swollen conditions in a wide range of packing fractions . We compare neutra…
A simple and accurate method to determine fluid-crystal phase boundaries from direct coexistence simulations
Frank Smallenburg, Giovanni Del Monte, Marjolein de Jager +1
One method for computationally determining phase boundaries is to explicitly simulate a direct coexistence between the two phases of interest. Although this approach works very wel…