Engineering Azeotropy to Optimize the Self-Assembly of Colloidal Mixtures
Camilla Beneduce, Francesco Sciortino, Petr Šulc, John Russo · 2023
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Camilla Beneduce and co-authors use azeotropy to guide self assembly of colloidal mixtures in a 2023 paper. Designing particles that assemble into a target structure gets harder with each added component, since freedom grows. An azeotropic point is a special condition where a mixture behaves like a single component system. The authors show how to pick patchy particle systems that hit such points along a desired assembly path.
Using mass balance equations, they map a binary mixture designed to assemble fully into a cubic diamond crystal, and only that crystal, through an azeotropic point. The trick could generalize to mixtures with any number of components. Readers see a thermodynamic shortcut for building complex structures reliably.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Camilla Beneduce, Francesco Sciortino, Petr Šulc, John Russo |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 55 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |