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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…
Self-assembly in chains, rings and branches: a single component system with two critical points
Lorenzo Rovigatti, José Maria Tavares, Francesco Sciortino
We study the interplay between phase separation and self-assembly in chains, rings and branched structures in a model of particles with dissimilar patches. We extend Wertheim's fir…
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…
Casimir-like forces at the percolation transition
Nicoletta Gnan, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Francesco Sciortino
Percolation and critical phenomena show common features such as scaling and universality. Colloidal particles, immersed in a solvent close to criticality, experience long-range eff…
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,…
Computing the phase diagram of binary mixtures: a patchy particle case study
Lorenzo Rovigatti, Daniel de las Heras, José Maria Tavares +2
We investigate the phase behaviour of 2D mixtures of bi-functional and three-functional patchy particles and 3D mixtures of bi-functional and tetra-functional patchy particles by m…