Journal
MOLECULAR PHYSICS
Volume 116, Issue 15-16, Pages 1945-1952Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2017.1406164
Keywords
SALR; clusters; mesoscale; soft matter; reproduction; nucleation; competing interactions
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Particles with SALR (short-range attraction and long-range repulsion) interactions are common to many physical systems, especially biological and soft matter, yet their behaviour is still not completely understood. Using Monte Carlo simulations and a thermodynamic model, it is shown here that giant SALR clusters can grow and reproduce in these fluids. Giant cluster growth and reproduction should therefore be common to a wide range of natural and synthetic systems under suitable conditions. If, in addition, cluster fitness selection occurs then chemical evolution of giant SALR cluster might be observed in suitable systems. [GRAPHICS] .
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