Self-assembly of colloidal nanocrystals: from intricate structures to functional materials

MA Boles, M Engel, DV Talapin - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Chemical methods developed over the past two decades enable preparation of colloidal
nanocrystals with uniform size and shape. These Brownian objects readily order into …

Colloidal hard spheres: Triumphs, challenges, and mysteries

CP Royall, P Charbonneau, M Dijkstra, J Russo… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
The simplicity of hard spheres as a model system is deceptive. Although the particles
interact solely through volume exclusion, that nevertheless suffices for a wealth of static and …

Calculating the binding free energies of charged species based on explicit-solvent simulations employing lattice-sum methods: An accurate correction scheme for …

GJ Rocklin, DL Mobley, KA Dill… - The Journal of chemical …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The calculation of a protein-ligand binding free energy based on molecular dynamics (MD)
simulations generally relies on a thermodynamic cycle in which the ligand is alchemically …

Exact hamiltonian monte carlo for truncated multivariate gaussians

A Pakman, L Paninski - Journal of Computational and Graphical …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
We present a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm to sample from multivariate Gaussian
distributions in which the target space is constrained by linear and quadratic inequalities or …

Rejection-free Monte Carlo sampling for general potentials

EAJF Peters, G de With - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2012 - APS
A Monte Carlo method to sample the classical configurational canonical ensemble is
introduced. In contrast to the Metropolis algorithm, where trial moves can be rejected, in this …

Nonclassical nucleation pathways in stacking-disordered crystals

F Leoni, J Russo - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
The nucleation of crystals from liquid melt is often characterized by a competition between
different crystalline structures or polymorphs and can result in nuclei with heterogeneous …

Glass forming ability in systems with competing orderings

J Russo, F Romano, H Tanaka - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
Some liquids, if cooled rapidly enough to avoid crystallization, can be frozen into a
nonergodic glassy state. The tendency for a material to form a glass when quenched is …

Thermodynamic and dynamical properties of the hard sphere system revisited by molecular dynamics simulation

S Pieprzyk, MN Bannerman, AC Brańka… - Physical Chemistry …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Revised thermodynamic and dynamical properties of the hard sphere (HS) system are
obtained from extensive molecular dynamics calculations carried out with large system sizes …

Local structure in deeply supercooled liquids exhibits growing lengthscales and dynamical correlations

JE Hallett, F Turci, CP Royall - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Glasses are among the most widely used of everyday materials, yet the process by which a
liquid's viscosity increases by 14 decades to become a glass remains unclear, as often …

Influence of humidity on tribo-electric charging and segregation in shaken granular media

A Schella, S Herminghaus, M Schröter - Soft matter, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We study the effect of humidity on the charge accumulation of polymer granulates shaken
vertically in a stainless steel container. This setup allows us to control the humidity level from …