Self-Assembly of Patchy Particles into Diamond Structures through Molecular Mimicry

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2012-01-17

arxiv.org/abs/1201.3425v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

6 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; Langmuir 21, 25 (2005)

Scientific paper

10.1021/la0513611

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. Our 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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