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Dynamics and Interactions of Quincke Roller Clusters: from Orbits and Flips to Excited States
Abraham Mauleon-Amieva, Michael P. Allen, C. Patrick Royall
Active matter systems may be characterised by the conversion of energy into active motion, e.g. the self-propulsion of microorganisms. Artificial active colloids form models which…
Entropy production in an elementary, light driven micro-machine
Stuart J. Box, Michael P. Allen, David B. Phillips +1
We consider the basic, thermodynamic properties of an elementary micro-machine operating at colloidal length scales. In particular, we track and analyse the driven stochastic motio…
Molecular simulations of entangled defect structures around nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystals
Anja Humpert, Samuel F. Brown, Michael P. Allen
We investigate the defect structures forming around two nanoparticles in a Gay-Berne nematic liquid crystal using molecular simulations. For small separations, disclinations entang…
Folding kinetics of a polymer [corrigendum]
Bart Vorselaars, Štěpán Růžička, David Quigley +1
In our original article (Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 60446053) a convergence problem resulted in an averaging error in computing the entropy from a set of Wang-Landau Monte-…
Folding Kinetics of a Polymer
S. Ruzicka, D. Quigley, M. P. Allen
By simulating the first order globule-crystal transition of a flexible homopolymer chain, both by collision dynamics and Monte Carlo with non-kinetic moves, we show that the effect…
Structure of a liquid crystalline fluid around a macroparticle: Density functional theory study
David L. Cheung, Michael P. Allen
The structure of a molecular liquid, in both the nematic liquid crystalline and isotropic phases, around a cylindrical macroparticle, is studied using density functional theory. In…
Forces between elongated particles in a nematic colloid
D. Andrienko, M. Tasinkevych, P. Patricio +2
Using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations we study the interactions between elongated colloidal particles (length to breath ratio > 1) in a nematic host. The simulation results are…
Drag on particles in a nematic suspension by a moving nematic-isotropic interface
J. L. West, A. Glushchenko, G. Liao +3
We report the first clear demonstration of drag on colloidal particles by a moving nematic-isotropic interface. The balance of forces explains our observation of periodic, strip-li…
Theory and simulation of the nematic zenithal anchoring coefficient
D. Andrienko, M. P. Allen
Combining molecular simulation, Onsager theory and the elastic description of nematic liquid crystals, we study the dependence of the nematic liquid crystal elastic constants and t…
Defect structures and torque on an elongated colloidal particle immersed in a liquid crystal host
D. Andrienko, M. P. Allen, G. Skacej +1
Combining molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulation we study defect structures around an elongated colloidal particle embedded in a nematic liquid crystal host. By studying nem…