Cluster Morphology of Colloidal Systems With Competing Interactions

Reversible aggregation of purely short-ranged attractive colloidal particles leads to the formation of clusters with a fractal dimension that only depends on the second virial coefficient. The addition of a long-ranged repulsion to the potential modifies the way in which the particles aggregate into...

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Main Authors: Néstor E. Valadez-Pérez, Yun Liu, Ramón Castañeda-Priego
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Physics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2021.637138/full