Patchy colloids: state of the art and perspectives

E Bianchi, R Blaak, CN Likos - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, an increasing experimental effort has been devoted to the synthesis of complex
colloidal particles with chemically or physically patterned surfaces and possible specific …

A numerical study of one-patch colloidal particles: from square-well to Janus

F Sciortino, A Giacometti, G Pastore - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
We perform numerical simulations of a simple model of one-patch colloidal particles to
investigate:(i) the behavior of the gas–liquid phase diagram on moving from a spherical …

Two dimensional assembly of triblock Janus particles into crystal phases in the two bond per patch limit

F Romano, F Sciortino - Soft Matter, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent experimental work on spherical colloidal particles decorated with two hydrophobic
poles separated by an electrically charged middle band (triblock Janus particles)—when …

The stability of a crystal with diamond structure for patchy particles with tetrahedral symmetry

EG Noya, C Vega, JPK Doye, AA Louis - The Journal of chemical …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The phase diagram of model anisotropic particles with four attractive patches in a tetrahedral
arrangement has been computed at two different values of the range of the potential, with …

Effects of patch size and number within a simple model of patchy colloids

A Giacometti, F Lado, J Largo, G Pastore… - The Journal of chemical …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
We report on a computer simulation and integral equation study of a simple model of patchy
spheres, each of whose surfaces is decorated with two opposite attractive caps, as a …

Phase diagram of one-patch colloids forming tubes and lamellae

Z Preisler, T Vissers, F Smallenburg… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We numerically calculate the equilibrium phase diagram of one-patch particles with 30%
patch coverage. It has been previously shown that in the fluid phase these particles organize …

Equilibrium phases of one-patch colloids with short-range attractions

Z Preisler, T Vissers, G Munao, F Smallenburg… - Soft Matter, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Inspired by experimental studies of short-ranged attractive patchy particles, we study with
computer simulations the phase behavior and the crystalline structures of one-patch colloids …

General patchy ellipsoidal particle model for the aggregation behaviors of shape-and/or surface-anisotropic building blocks

ZW Li, YL Zhu, ZY Lu, ZY Sun - Soft Matter, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a general patchy ellipsoidal particle model suitable for conducting dynamics
simulations of the aggregation behaviors of various shape-and/or surface-anisotropic …

Cluster formation in one-patch colloids: low coverage results

G Munao, Z Preisler, T Vissers, F Smallenburg… - Soft Matter, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
We perform Monte Carlo simulations of a simple one-patch colloidal model to investigate the
cluster formation and the phase behavior of the system on changing the width of the patch …

A versatile model for soft patchy particles with various patch arrangements

ZW Li, YL Zhu, ZY Lu, ZY Sun - Soft Matter, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
We propose a simple and general mesoscale soft patchy particle model, which can
felicitously describe the deformable and surface-anisotropic characteristics of soft patchy …