Journal
SOFT MATTER
Volume 7, Issue 7, Pages 3553-3564Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c0sm01289k
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- Gates Cambridge Trust, the Norway
- EEA Grants
- Zoltan Magyary Higher Education Foundation
- Oppenheimer Trust
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We discuss the main features of the potential energy landscape that are associated with efficient 'structure-seeking' systems for particles interacting via anisotropic, pairwise additive forces. The interparticle potentials employed here are intended for a coarse-grained description of mesoscopic building blocks, such as colloids or functionalised metal clusters. We show that the anisotropy of the building blocks and the orientation-dependent interaction strengths are the most important factors that govern self-assembly into particular target morphologies. By varying the model parameters, the self-assembling behaviour can be systematically tuned. Design principles are outlined for various structures, and we postulate a sufficient condition for building-blocks to self-assemble into helical strands.
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