Self-Assembly of Patchy Particles into Diamond Structures through Molecular Mimicry
| Autor: | Sharon C. Glotzer, Zhenli Zhang, Ting Chen, Aaron S. Keys |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Fabrication
Materials science Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) FOS: Physical sciences Diamond Surfaces and Interfaces engineering.material Condensed Matter Physics Antibonding molecular orbital Chemical physics Electrochemistry engineering Molecule General Materials Science Self-assembly Crystallite Diamond cubic Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics Spectroscopy Photonic crystal |
| Zdroj: | Langmuir. 21:11547-11551 |
| ISSN: | 1520-5827 0743-7463 |
| DOI: | 10.1021/la0513611 |
| Popis: | Fabrication of diamond structures by self-assembly is a fundamental challenge in making three-dimensional photonic crystals. We simulate a system of model hard particles with attractive patches and show that they can self-assemble into a diamond structure from an initially disordered state. We quantify the extent to which the formation of the diamond structure can be facilitated by "seeding" the system with small diamond crystallites or by introducing a rotation interaction to mimic a carbon-carbon antibonding interaction. Our results suggest patchy particles may serve as colloidal "atoms" and "molecules" for the bottom-up self-assembly of three-dimensional crystals. Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; Langmuir 21, 25 (2005) |
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