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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 114, Issue 7, Pages 2353-2358Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp909959k
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- National Science Foundation of China [20774036, 20974040, 50930001]
- Graduate Innovation Fund of Jilin University [20091009]
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We develop a novel mesoscale simulation model in order to study the hierarchical self-assembly of soft disklike particles in dilute solutions. In suitable solvent conditions, the soft anisotropic disklike particles first self-assemble into one-dimensional flexible threads, in accord with experiments. Then, intriguingly, the threads reversibly pack into flexible hexagonal bundles by decreasing the solvent quality. Hierarchical self-assembly of this type may be important to provide a strategy to create bundle structures by bottom-up self-assembly with a single type of soft and flexible building block and mimic the bundles commonly found in biological structures.
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