Search Results - "Dijkstra, Marjolein"
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From predictive modelling to machine learning and reverse engineering of colloidal self-assembly
Published in Nature materials (01-06-2021)“…An overwhelming diversity of colloidal building blocks with distinct sizes, materials and tunable interaction potentials are now available for colloidal…”
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A generalized density-modulated twist-splay-bend phase of banana-shaped particles
Published in Nature communications (12-04-2021)“…In 1976, Meyer predicted that bend distortions of the nematic director field are complemented by deformations of either twist or splay, yielding twist-bend and…”
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Entropy-driven formation of chiral nematic phases by computer simulations
Published in Nature communications (12-04-2016)“…Predicting the macroscopic chiral behaviour of liquid crystals from the microscopic chirality of the particles is highly non-trivial, even when the chiral…”
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Chemical potential in active systems: predicting phase equilibrium from bulk equations of state?
Published in New journal of physics (01-01-2018)“…We derive a microscopic expression for a quantity that plays the role of chemical potential of active Brownian particles (ABPs) in a steady state in the…”
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Achiral hard bananas assemble double-twist skyrmions and blue phases
Published in Nature communications (08-08-2024)“…Skyrmions are topologically protected, vortex-like structures found in various condensed-matter systems including helical ferromagnets and liquid crystals,…”
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Shape-induced crystallization of binary DNA-functionalized nanocubes
Published in The Journal of chemical physics (14-05-2023)“…Leveraging the anisotropic shape of DNA-functionalized nanoparticles holds potential for shape-directed crystallization of a wide collection of superlattice…”
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Vacancy-stabilized crystalline order in hard cubes
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (30-10-2012)“…We examine the effect of vacancies on the phase behavior and structure of systems consisting of hard cubes using event-driven molecular dynamics and Monte…”
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Pushing the glass transition towards random close packing using self-propelled hard spheres
Published in Nature communications (28-10-2013)“…Although the concept of random close packing with an almost universal packing fraction of approximately 0.64 for hard spheres was introduced more than half a…”
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Fabrication of Colloidal Laves Phases via Hard Tetramers and Hard Spheres: Bulk Phase Diagram and Sedimentation Behavior
Published in ACS nano (22-08-2017)“…Colloidal photonic crystals display peculiar optical properties that make them particularly suitable for application in different fields. However, the low…”
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Liquid flow reversibly creates a macroscopic surface charge gradient
Published in Nature communications (02-07-2021)“…The charging and dissolution of mineral surfaces in contact with flowing liquids are ubiquitous in nature, as most minerals in water spontaneously acquire…”
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Entropy-driven formation of large icosahedral colloidal clusters by spherical confinement
Published in Nature materials (01-01-2015)“…Experiments with colloidal nano- and microparticles and computer simulations show that, unexpectedly, confinement and entropy are sufficient for the formation…”
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Splay-bend nematic phases of bent colloidal silica rods induced by polydispersity
Published in Nature communications (01-12-2022)“…Liquid crystal (LC) phases are in between solids and liquids with properties of both. Nematic LCs composed of rod-like molecules or particles exhibit…”
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Surface roughness directed self-assembly of patchy particles into colloidal micelles
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (03-07-2012)“…Colloidal particles with site-specific directional interactions, so called “patchy particles”, are promising candidates for bottom-up assembly routes towards…”
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Binary icosahedral clusters of hard spheres in spherical confinement
Published in Nature physics (01-01-2021)“…The influence of geometry on the local and global packing of particles is important to many fundamental and applied research themes, such as the structure and…”
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In situ study of the formation mechanism of two-dimensional superlattices from PbSe nanocrystals
Published in Nature materials (01-12-2016)“…A real-time study of the growth of two-dimensional nanocrystal superlattices with square periodicity shows the formation mechanism leading to the oriented…”
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Interplay between spherical confinement and particle shape on the self-assembly of rounded cubes
Published in Nature communications (08-06-2018)“…Self-assembly of nanoparticles (NPs) inside drying emulsion droplets provides a general strategy for hierarchical structuring of matter at different length…”
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Nonclassical Nucleation in a Solid-Solid Transition of Confined Hard Spheres
Published in Physical review letters (30-10-2015)“…A solid-solid phase transition of colloidal hard spheres confined between two planar hard walls is studied using a combination of molecular dynamics and Monte…”
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Quantitative 3D real-space analysis of Laves phase supraparticles
Published in Nature communications (25-06-2021)“…Assembling binary mixtures of nanoparticles into crystals, gives rise to collective properties depending on the crystal structure and the individual properties…”
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A colloidal viewpoint on the sausage catastrophe and the finite sphere packing problem
Published in Nature communications (30-11-2023)“…It is commonly believed that the most efficient way to pack a finite number of equal-sized spheres is by arranging them tightly in a cluster. However,…”
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Predicting crystals of Janus colloids
Published in The Journal of chemical physics (28-04-2013)“…We present a numerical study on the phase diagram for a simple model of Janus colloids, including ordered and disordered structures. Using a range of…”
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