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SUBMITTER: Azari A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5719464 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids 20171117 48
The interplay between shape anisotropy and directed long-range interactions enables the self-assembly of complex colloidal structures. As a recent highlight, ellipsoidal particles polarized in an external electric field were observed to associate into well-defined tubular structures. In this study, we systematically investigate such directed self-assembly using Monte Carlo simulations of a two-point-charge model of polarizable prolate ellipsoids. In spite of its simplicity and computational effi ...[more]