Recent advances in the theory and simulation of model colloidal microphase formers

Y Zhuang, P Charbonneau - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
This mini-review synthesizes our understanding of the equilibrium behavior of particle-
based models with short-range attractive and long-range repulsive (SALR) interactions …

Hunting mermaids in real space: Known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns

CP Royall - Soft Matter, 2018‏ - pubs.rsc.org
We review efforts to realise so-called mermaid (or short-ranged attraction/long ranged
repulsion) interactions in 3d real space. The repulsive and attractive contributions to these …

Origin of similarity of phase diagrams in amphiphilic and colloidal systems with competing interactions

A Ciach, J Pękalski, WT Góźdź - Soft Matter, 2013‏ - pubs.rsc.org
We show that amphiphilic and colloidal systems with competing interactions can be
described by the same Landau–Brazovskii functional. The functional is obtained by a …

Equilibrium phase behavior of a continuous-space microphase former

Y Zhuang, K Zhang, P Charbonneau - Physical review letters, 2016‏ - APS
Periodic microphases universally emerge in systems for which short-range interparticle
attraction is frustrated by long-range repulsion. The morphological richness of these phases …

Cluster formation in fluids with competing short-range and long-range interactions

MB Sweatman, R Fartaria, L Lue - The Journal of chemical physics, 2014‏ - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the low density behaviour of fluids that interact through a short-ranged
attraction together with a long-ranged repulsion (SALR potential) by develo** a molecular …

[HTML][HTML] Structure of ionic liquids and concentrated electrolytes from a mesoscopic theory

A Ciach, O Patsahan - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Recently, underscreening in concentrated electrolytes was discovered in experiments and
confirmed in simulations and theory. It was found that the correlation length of the charge …

[HTML][HTML] Probabilistic inverse design for self-assembling materials

RB Jadrich, BA Lindquist, TM Truskett - The Journal of Chemical …, 2017‏ - pubs.aip.org
One emerging approach for the fabrication of complex architectures on the nanoscale is to
utilize particles customized to intrinsically self-assemble into a desired structure. Inverse …

Pattern formation and self-assembly driven by competing interactions

D Pini, A Parola - Soft Matter, 2017‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Colloidal fluids interacting via effective potentials which are attractive at the short range and
repulsive at the long range have long been raising considerable attention because such an …

Periodic ordering of clusters and stripes in a two-dimensional lattice model. II. Results of Monte Carlo simulation

NG Almarza, J Pȩkalski, A Ciach - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2014‏ - pubs.aip.org
Periodic ordering of clusters and stripes in a two-dimensional lattice model. II. Results of Monte
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Spontaneous pattern formation in monolayers of binary mixtures with competing interactions

O Patsahan, A Meyra, A Ciach - Soft Matter, 2024‏ - pubs.rsc.org
A model for a monolayer of two types of particles spontaneously forming ordered patterns is
studied using a mesoscopic theory and MC simulations. We assume hard-cores of the same …