Crystalline assemblies and densest packings of a family of truncated tetrahedra and the role of directional entropic forces

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 609-614

  Damasceno, Pablo F ^a   Engel, Michael ^a   Glotzer, Sharon C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

computer simulation; directional entropy; nanoparticles; polyhedra packing; self assembly; space filling

Indexed keywords

ANCIENT GREEKS; ATOMIC CRYSTALS; BUILDING BLOCKES; CONDENSED MATTER; DIRECTIONAL ENTROPY; FACE-TO-FACE ALIGNMENT; HARD PARTICLES; ISOSTRUCTURES; POLYHEDRON SHAPES; SELF ASSEMBLED STRUCTURES; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SPACE-FILLING; THERMODYNAMICALLY STABLE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; LITHIUM; NANOPARTICLES; SELF ASSEMBLY; TIN;

GEOMETRY;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENTROPY; MACROMOLECULE; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENTROPY; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84856164135     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn204012y     Document Type: Article

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