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Abstract
We report simulation studies on the self-assembly of a binary mixture of snowman and dumbbell shaped lobed particles. Depending on the lobe size and temperature, different types of self-assembled structures (random aggregates, spherical aggregates, liquid droplets, amorphous wire-like structures, amorphous ring structures, crystalline structures) are observed. At lower temperatures, heterogeneous structures are formed for lobed particles of both shapes. At higher temperatures, homogeneous self-assembled structures are formed mainly by the dumbbell shaped particles, while the snowman shaped particles remain in a dissociated state. We also investigated the porosities of self-assembled structures. The pore diameters in self-assemblies increased with an increase in temperature for a given lobe size. The particles having smaller lobes produced structures with larger pores than the particles having larger lobes. We further investigated the effect of σ, a parameter in the surface-shifted Lennard-Jones potential, on the self-assembled morphologies and their porosities. The self-assembled structures formed at a higher σ value are found to produce larger pores than those at a lower σ.
Publication Date
10-19-2021
Publisher
Frontiers
Journal Title
Frontiers in Physics
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Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Paul S and Vashisth H (2021) Self-Assembly of Porous Structures From a Binary Mixture of Lobed Patchy Particles. Front. Phys. 9:767623. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2021.767623
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Copyright © 2021 Paul and Vashisth.
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This is an Open Access article published by Frontiers in Frontiers in Physics in 2021, available online: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2021.767623