期刊
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 24, 期 13, 页码 7874-7881出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1cp05894k
关键词
-
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [92163104, 21833008, 21790344]
- National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFB0703701]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS [2018257]
This study reports the surprising finding of multiple 2D crystal structures in bilayered lamellae from the direct self-assembly of 3D systems of soft Janus particles. The formation of these 2D crystals within the layers is revealed, suggesting a simple route towards 2D crystals via the direct self-assembly of 3D systems.
Numerous crystals and Frank-Kasper phases in two-dimensional (2D) systems of soft particles have been presented by theoretical investigations. How to realize 2D crystals or Frank-Kasper phases via the direct self-assembly of three-dimensional (3D) systems remains an important issue. Here, through numerical simulations, we report the surprising finding of multiple 2D crystal structures in bilayered lamellae from the direct self-assembly of 3D systems of soft Janus particles. With varying the patch size and particle density, soft Janus particles, which exhibit very similar self-assembly behavior to giant amphiphiles, spontaneously form ordered bilayered lamellae. Within each layer of the bilayered lamellae, we find abundant highly-ordered 2D crystals including the Frank-Kasper sigma phase and open kagome lattice. The kinetic mechanisms of the formation of these 2D crystals within the layers are revealed, and include a classical one-step nucleation mechanism and a two-step nucleation mechanism. Our findings suggest a simple route towards 2D crystals via the direct self-assembly of 3D systems of amphiphilic Janus building blocks.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据