scholarly journals Self-assembly of three-dimensional ensembles of magnetic particles with laterally shifted dipoles

Soft Matter ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2066-2075 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arzu B. Yener ◽  
Sabine H. L. Klapp

Using molecular dynamics simulations we investigate the self-assembly behaviour of colloidal particles with laterally shifted dipoles.

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenyu Yang ◽  
Chunyang Yu ◽  
Junjie Ding ◽  
Lihua Chen ◽  
Huiyu Liu ◽  
...  

AbstractA variety of organic cages with different geometries have been developed during the last decade, most of them exhibiting a single cavity. In contrast, the number of organic cages featuring a pair of cavities remains scarce. These structures may pave the way towards novel porous materials with emergent properties and functions.We herein report on rational design of a three-dimensional hexaformyl precursor 1, which exhibits two types of conformers, i.e. Conformer-1 and -2, with different cleft positions and sizes. Aided by molecular dynamics simulations, we select two triamino conformation capturers (denoted CC). Small-sized CC-1 selectively capture Conformer-1 by matching its cleft size, while the large-sized CC-2 is able to match and capture both conformers. This strategy allows the formation of three compounds with twin cavities, which we coin diphane. The self-assembly of diphane units results in superstructures with tunable proton conductivity, which reaches up to 1.37×10-5 S cm-1.


Author(s):  
Łukasz Piotr Baran ◽  
Wojciech Rżysko ◽  
Dariusz Tarasewicz

In this study we have performed extensive coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of the self-assembly of tetra-substituted molecules. We have found that such molecules are able to form a variety of...


Soft Matter ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (23) ◽  
pp. 4762-4771 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Svechkarev ◽  
Alexander Kyrychenko ◽  
William M. Payne ◽  
Aaron M. Mohs

Side substituents on the hyaluronic acid backbone determine the morphology and hydration of the HA-derived nanoparticles hydrophobic domains.


2012 ◽  
Vol 1407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew L. J. Pang ◽  
Viacheslav Sorkin ◽  
Yong-Wei Zhang

ABSTRACTWe studied the self-assembly mechanisms of Graphene Nanoribbon (GNR) with unsaturated edges and demonstrated the ability of GNR to self-assemble into novel stable structures. We proposed three mechanisms which dictate the self-assembly evolution of GNR with unsaturated edges. Using the Adaptive Intermolecular Reactive Empirical Bond-Order (AIREBO) potential, we performed molecular dynamics simulations on initially-planar GNRs with unsaturated edges. The simulation results showed that the self-assembly mechanisms and final conformations of the GNRs correlate well with the proposed GNR self-assembly mechanisms. Furthermore, the simulations also showed the ability of a narrow GNR to self-assemble into various nanostructures, such as tapered graphene nano-rings and graphene nanoscrolls with an embedded nanotube.


Soft Matter ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 680-691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Akinshina ◽  
Martin Walker ◽  
Mark R. Wilson ◽  
Gordon J. T. Tiddy ◽  
Andrew J. Masters ◽  
...  

Molecular dynamics simulations of non-ionic triphenylene-based chromonic liquid crystal molecules demonstrate self-assembly of the molecules into stacks and “quasi-isodesmic” aggregation behaviour.


2015 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 172a
Author(s):  
Valeria Marquez-Miranda ◽  
Iingrid Araya ◽  
Maria Belen Camarada ◽  
Lars Ratjen ◽  
Maria Carolina Otero ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 258-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karteek K. Bejagam ◽  
Richard C. Remsing ◽  
Michael L. Klein ◽  
Sundaram Balasubramanian

Amino ester-based benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamides (BTAs) are widely studied experimentally for their facile self-assembly, which leads to strong three-fold hydrogen bonded supramolecular polymers.


2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (10) ◽  
pp. 3470-3489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pim W. J. M. Frederix ◽  
Ilias Patmanidis ◽  
Siewert J. Marrink

The self-assembly of bio-inspired supramolecular polymers can be unravelled using molecular dynamics simulations combined with experiments.


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