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NANOSCALE
Volume 6, Issue 16, Pages 9448-9456Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4nr00324a
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- European Union
- State of Hungary
- European Social Fund 'National Excellence Program' [TAMOP-4.2.4.A/2-11/1-2012-0001]
- EPSRC
- ERC
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Using the framework of potential energy landscape theory, we describe two in silico designs for self-assembling helical colloidal superstructures based upon dipolar dumbbells and Janus-type building blocks, respectively. Helical superstructures with controllable pitch length are obtained using external magnetic field driven assembly of asymmetric dumbbells involving screened electrostatic as well as magnetic dipolar interactions. The pitch of the helix is tuned by modulating the Debye screening length over an experimentally accessible range. The second design is based on building blocks composed of rigidly linked spheres with short-range anisotropic interactions, which are predicted to self-assemble into Bernal spirals. These spirals are quite flexible, and longer helices undergo rearrangements via cooperative, hinge-like moves, in agreement with experiment.
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