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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 151, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.5121802
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Funding
- MOST [2016YFA0400904, 2018YFA0208702]
- NSFC [21973085, 21833007, 21790350, 21673212, 21521001, 21473165]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [WK2340000074]
- Anhui Initiative in Quantum Information Technologies [AHY090200]
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Formation of highly ordered structures usually needs to overcome a high free-energy barrier that is greatly beyond the ability of thermodynamic fluctuation such that the system would be easily trapped into a state with many defects and the annealing process of which often occurs on unreachable long time scales. Here, we report theoretically a fascinating example that active core corona particles can successfully self-assemble into a large-scaled and highly ordered stripe or trimer lattice, which is hardly achieved in a nondriven equilibrium system. Besides, such an activity-induced ordered structure shows an interesting self-healing feature of defects. In addition, there exists an optimal level of activity that most favorably enhances the formation of ordered self-assembly structures. Since core corona particles act as important units for self-assembly in real practice, we believe that our study opens a new design-strategy for highly ordered materials. Published under license by AIP Publishing.
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