Liquids more stable than crystals in particles with limited valence and flexible bonds

Nature Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 554-558

  Smallenburg, Frank ^a   Sciortino, Francesco ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GLASS; LIQUIDS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; TEMPERATURE;

COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; GLASS FORMING ABILITY; INTER-PARTICLE INTERACTION; MOLECULAR NETWORKS; ORDERED STRUCTURES; OUT OF EQUILIBRIUM; QUANTUM MECHANICAL;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 84883742442     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2693     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Bianchi, E., Blaak, R. & Likos, C. N. Patchy colloids: State of the art and perspectives. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 13, 6397-6410 (2011
2. Ruzicka, B. et al. Observation of empty liquids and equilibrium gels in a colloidal clay. Nature Mater. 10, 56-60 (2011
3. Debenedetti, P. G. & Stillinger, F. H. Supercooled liquids and the glass transition. Nature 410, 259-267 (2001
4. Sciortino, F. Gel-forming patchy colloids and network glass formers: Thermodynamic and dynamic analogies. Eur. Phys. J. B 64, 505-509 (2008
5. Glotzer, S. C. & Solomon, M. J. Anisotropy of building blocks and their assembly into complex structures. Nature Mater. 6, 557-562 (2007
6. Chen, Q., Bae, S. C. & Granick, S. Directed self-assembly of a colloidal kagome lattice. Nature 469, 381-384 (2011
7. Wang, Y. et al. Colloids with valence and specific directional bonding. Nature 491, 51-55 (2012
8. Pawar, A. B. & Kretzschmar, I. Fabrication, assembly, and application of patchy particles. Macromol. Rapid Commun. 31, 150-168 (2010
9. Kraft, D. J. et al. Surface roughness directed self-assembly of patchy particles into colloidal micelles. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 109, 10787-10792 (2012
10. Bianchi, E., Largo, J., Tartaglia, P., Zaccarelli, E. & Sciortino, F. Phase diagram of patchy colloids: Towards empty liquids. Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 168301 (2006
11. De las Heras, D., Tavares, J. M. & Telo da Gama, M. M. Bicontinuous and mixed gels in binary mixtures of patchy colloidal particles. Soft Matter 8, 1785-1794 (2012
12. Martinez-Veracoechea, F. J., Mladek, B. M., Tkachenko, A. V. & Frenkel, D. Design rule for colloidal crystals of DNA-functionalized particles. Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 045902 (2011
13. Mao, X., Chen, Q. & Granick, S. Entropy favours open colloidal lattices. Nature Mater. 12, 217-222 (2013
14. Stewart, K. M. & McLaughlin, L. W. Four-arm oligonucleotide ni(ii)-cyclam-centered complexes as precursors for the generation of supramolecular periodic assemblies. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 2050-2057 (2004
15. Kern, N. & Frenkel, D. Fluid-fluid coexistence in colloidal systems with short-ranged strongly directional attraction. J. Chem. Phys. 118, 9882-9889 (2003
16. Zanchet, D., Micheel, C. M., Parak, W. J., Gerion, D. & Alivisatos, A. P. Electrophoretic isolation of discrete Au nanocrystal/DNA conjugates. Nano Lett. 1, 32-35 (2001
17. Li, Y. et al. Controlled assembly of dendrimer-like DNA. Nature Mater. 3, 38-42 (2004
18. Montarnal, D., Capelot, M., Tournilhac, F. & Leibler, L. Silica-like malleable materials from permanent organic networks. Science 334, 965-968 (2011
19. Romano, F., Sanz, E. & Sciortino, F. Phase diagram of a tetrahedral patchy particle model for different interaction ranges. J. Chem. Phys. 132, 184501 (2010
20. Martinez-Veracoechea, F. J., Bozorgui, B. & Frenkel, D. Anomalous phase behavior of liquid-vapor phase transition in binary mixtures of DNA-coated particles. Soft Matter 6, 6136-6145 (2010
21. Romano, F., Sanz, E., Tartaglia, P. & Sciortino, F. Phase diagram of trivalent and pentavalent patchy particles. J. Phys. Condens. Mater. 24, 064113 (2012
22. Moreno, A. J. et al. Energy landscape of a simple model for strong liquids. Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 157802 (2005
23. Pauling, L. The structure and entropy of ice and of other crystals with some randomness of atomic arrangement. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 57, 2680-2684 (1935
24. Dorsaz, N., Filion, L., Smallenburg, F. & Frenkel, D. Spiers memorial lecture: Effect of interaction specificity on the phase behaviour of patchy particles. Faraday Discuss. 159, 9-21 (2012
25. Poole, P. H., Becker, S. R., Sciortino, F. & Starr, F. W. Dynamical behavior near a liquid-liquid phase transition in simulations of supercooled water. J. Phys. Chem. B 115, 14176-14183 (2011
26. Frenkel, D. & Smit, B. Understanding Molecular Simulations: From Algorithms to Applications (Academic, 2002
27. Frenkel, D. & Ladd, A. J. C. New Monte Carlo method to compute the free energy of arbitrary solids. Application to the fcc and hcp phases of hard spheres. J. Chem. Phys. 81, 3188-3193 (1984
28. Noya, E. G., Vega, C., Doye, J. P. K. & Louis, A. A. Phase diagram of model anisotropic particles with octahedral symmetry. J. Chem. Phys. 127, 054501 (2007
29. Filion, L. et al. Efficient method for predicting crystal structures at finite temperature: Variable box shape simulations. Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 188302 (2009
30. Rapaport, D. C. The event-driven approach to N-body simulation. Prog. Theor. Phys. Supp. 178, 5-14 (2009
31. De la Peña, L. H., van Zon, R., Schofield, J. & Opps, S. B. Discontinuous molecular dynamics for semiflexible and rigid bodies. J. Chem. Phys. 126, 074105 (2007