Crystalsomes via Confined Polymer Crystallization in Nanoemulsions

Polymer, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 128054 - 128054

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Effects of gravity on supersolid order in bubble-trapped bosons

Physical review. B./Physical review. B, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 111(2)

Published: Jan. 27, 2025

Language: Английский

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Accessing Semiaddressable Self-Assembly with Efficient Structure Enumeration

Physical Review Letters, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 134(5)

Published: Feb. 7, 2025

Modern experimental methods enable the creation of self-assembly building blocks with tunable interactions, but optimally exploiting this tunability for desired structures remains an important challenge. Many studies inverse problem start so-called fully addressable limit, where every particle in a target structure is different. This leads to clear design principles that often result high assembly yield, it not scalable approach-at some point, one must grapple "reusing" blocks, which lowers degree addressability and may cause multitude off-target form, complicating process. Here, we solve key obstacle preventing robust "semiaddressable regime" by developing highly efficient algorithm enumerates all can be formed from given set blocks. By combining established partition-function-based yield calculations, show almost always possible find economical semiaddressable designs entropic gain reusing outweighs presence even increases target. Thus, only does our enumeration regime, results demonstrate operate regime while maintaining level control associated full addressability.

Language: Английский

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Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Magnetic Handshake Materials

ACS Nano, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 11, 2025

Through programmable self-assembly, simple building blocks can be made to form highly complex structures following local rules of interaction. However, materials systems that are most commonly utilized for assembly often lack interactions exhibit the strength, specificity, and long ranges, which would, as a result, allow robust rapid hierarchical self-assembly processes. "Magnetic handshake" resolve many these challenges at once, incorporating strong, long-range, specific magnetic through patterning dipoles onto rigid panels. When appropriately designed, panels organize hierarchically: first into chains, subsequently those chains combine dense stacks. Here, we examine differences in phase behavior morphology four panel types. We delineate how perpendicular chaining stacking between compete they manipulated reverse sequence pathway. Collectively, our work shows enormous potential using handshake hierarchically organized structures.

Language: Английский

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Building blocks of non-Euclidean ribbons: size-controlled self-assembly via discrete frustrated particles

Soft Matter, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 19(5), P. 858 - 881

Published: Jan. 1, 2023

Geometric frustration offers a pathway to soft matter self-assembly with controllable finite sizes. While the understanding of in assembly derives almost exclusively from continuum elastic descriptions, current challenge is understand connection between microscopic physical properties misfitting "building blocks" and emergent behavior at mesoscale. We present analyze particle-based description what arguably best studied example for frustrated assembly, negative-curvature ribbon observed both assemblies chiral surfactants shape-frustrated nanoparticles. Based on our particle model, known as saddle wedge monomers, we numerically test shape interactions subunits supra-particle scale, specifically focussing propagation relaxation inter-particle strains, role extrinsic ribbons equilibrium regime width selection. Beyond intuitive misfit, show that self-limitation critically dependent range cohesive interactions, larger size requiring increasing short-range interparticle forces. Additionally, demonstrate non-linearities arising discrete alter self-limiting due strain-softening shape-flattened partial yielding highly strained bonds, which turn may give rise states hierarchical, multidomain assembly. Tracing regimes frustration-limited specific features shapes provides necessary guidance translating theory size-programmable into design intentionally-frustrated colloidal particles.

Language: Английский

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