Fabrication. of diamond structures by self-assembly is a fundamental challenge in making three-dimensional photonic crystals. We simulate a system of model hard particles with attractive patches and show that they can self-assemble into a diamond structure from an initially disordered state. We quantify the extent to which the formation of the diamond structure can be facilitated by seeding the system with small diamond crystallites or by introducing a rotation interaction to mimic a carbon-carbon antibonding interaction. Cur results suggest patchy particles may serve as colloidal atoms and molecules for the bottom-up self-assembly of three-dimensional crystals.
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