Self-assembly of anisotropic nanoparticles into functional superstructures

K Deng, Z Luo, L Tan, Z Quan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembly of colloidal nanoparticles (NPs) into superstructures offers a flexible and
promising pathway to manipulate the nanometer-sized particles and thus make full use of …

Phase behavior of colloidal silica rods

A Kuijk, DV Byelov, AV Petukhov… - Faraday …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, a novel colloidal hard-rod-like model system was developed which consists of
silica rods [Kuijk et al., JACS, 2011, 133, 2346]. Here, we present a study of the phase …

Glass transitions in quasi-two-dimensional suspensions of colloidal ellipsoids

Z Zheng, F Wang, Y Han - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
We observed a two-step glass transition in monolayers of colloidal ellipsoids by video
microscopy. The glass transition in the rotational degree of freedom was at a lower density …

Multistep nucleation of anisotropic molecules

KZ Takahashi, T Aoyagi, J Fukuda - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Phase transition of anisotropic materials is ubiquitously observed in physics, biology,
materials science, and engineering. Nevertheless, how anisotropy of constituent molecules …

Topology of orientational defects in confined smectic liquid crystals

PA Monderkamp, R Wittmann, LBG Cortes… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We propose a general formalism to characterize orientational frustration of smectic liquid
crystals in confinement by interpreting the emerging networks of grain boundaries as objects …

Nucleation in polymers and soft matter

X Xu, CL Ting, I Kusaka, ZG Wang - Annual review of physical …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Nucleation is a ubiquitous phenomenon in many physical, chemical, and biological
processes. In this review, we describe recent progress on the theoretical study of nucleation …

Hyperspectral imaging of photonic cellulose nanocrystal films: Structure of local defects and implications for self-assembly pathways

B Zhu, VE Johansen, G Kamita, G Guidetti, MM Bay… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) can spontaneously assemble into chiral nematic films
capable of reflecting circularly polarized light in the visible range. As many other photonic …

Liquid crystal order in colloidal suspensions of spheroidal particles by direct current electric field assembly

AA Shah, H Kang, KL Kohlstedt, KH Ahn, SC Glotzer… - Small, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
DC electric fields are used to produce colloidal assemblies with orientational and layered
positional order from a dilute suspension of spheroidal particles. These 3D assemblies …

Self-assembled multilayers of vertically aligned semiconductor nanorods on device-scale areas

M Zanella, RF Gomes Pinto Fernandes, M Povia… - Advanced …, 2011 - biblio.ugent.be
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GPU accelerated Discrete Element Method (DEM) molecular dynamics for conservative, faceted particle simulations

M Spellings, RL Marson, JA Anderson… - Journal of Computational …, 2017 - Elsevier
Faceted shapes, such as polyhedra, are commonly found in systems of nanoscale, colloidal,
and granular particles. Many interesting physical phenomena, like crystal nucleation and …