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Computational and Theoretical Study of Colloidal Monolayers with Short-Range Attractions and Dipolar Repulsions

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Chieh-Chih Yeh, Harold Hatch, Adithya Sreenivasan, Bhuvnesh Bharti, Vincent Shen, Zachary Sherman, Thomas Truskett

Abstract

This study explores the structure and phase behavior of monolayers of model colloids with short-range attractions and long-range repulsions, The model is motivated by recent experiments of hard-sphere-like microspheres that effectively interact via depletion attractions and dynamically tunable dipolar repulsions. Brownian dynamics simulations, grand canonical Monte Carlo methods, and approximate thermodynamic models are used together to study how the model's equilibrium and kinetically accessible solid and cluster fluid states depend on the relative strengths of the attractive and repulsive interactions. The results may help guide the understanding and design of quasi-two-dimensional colloidal assemblies with magnetic field tunable interactions.
Citation
Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Pub Type
Journals
Thermodynamics and Modeling and computational material science

Citation

Yeh, C. , Hatch, H. , Sreenivasan, A. , Bharti, B. , Shen, V. , Sherman, Z. and Truskett, T. (2025), Computational and Theoretical Study of Colloidal Monolayers with Short-Range Attractions and Dipolar Repulsions, Journal of Physical Chemistry B (Accessed April 3, 2025)

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Created March 21, 2025, Updated April 1, 2025