Reversible assembly of nanoparticles: theory, strategies and computational simulations

D Gentili, G Ori - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The significant advances in synthesis and functionalization have enabled the preparation of
high-quality nanoparticles that have found a plethora of successful applications. The unique …

Nonequilibrium continuous phase transition in colloidal gelation with short-range attraction

J Rouwhorst, C Ness, S Stoyanov, A Zaccone… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The dynamical arrest of attractive colloidal particles into out-of-equilibrium structures, known
as gelation, is central to biophysics, materials science, nanotechnology, and food and …

Electrostatic heteroaggregation regimes in colloidal suspensions

JM López-López, A Schmitt, A Moncho-Jordá… - Advances in colloid and …, 2009 - Elsevier
Despite of their importance for many industrial applications and the understanding of natural
phenomena, heteroaggregation processes have not been in the focus of attention of the …

Diffusion limited cluster aggregation with irreversible slippery bonds

S Babu, JC Gimel, T Nicolai - The European Physical Journal E, 2008 - Springer
Irreversible diffusion limited cluster aggregation (DLCA) of hard spheres was simulated
using Brownian cluster dynamics. Bound spheres were allowed to move freely within a …

Connecting irreversible to reversible aggregation: time and temperature

S Corezzi, C De Michele, E Zaccarelli… - The Journal of …, 2009 - ACS Publications
We report molecular dynamics simulations of a gel-forming mixture of ellipsoidal patchy
particles with different functionality. We show that in this model, which disfavors the …

Low-rank Monte Carlo for Smoluchowski-class equations

AI Osinsky - Journal of Computational Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
The work discusses a new low-rank Monte Carlo technique to solve Smoluchowski-like
kinetic equations. It drastically decreases the computational complexity of modeling of size …

Theoretical studies of the early stage coagulation kinetics for a charged colloidal dispersion

KL Wu, SK Lai - Langmuir, 2005 - ACS Publications
We study the early stage coagulation kinetics for a charged colloidal dispersion which is
here modeled by an effective two-body colloid− colloid potential. The colloidal system was …

One-dimensional irreversible aggregation with dynamics of a totally asymmetric simple exclusion process

NZ Bunzarova, NC Pesheva - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
We define and study one-dimensional model of irreversible aggregation of particles obeying
a discrete-time kinetics, which is a special limit of the generalized Totally Asymmetric Simple …

Endocytic pathway rapidly delivers internalized molecules to lysosomes: An analysis of vesicle trafficking, clustering and mass transfer

C Pangarkar, AT Dinh, S Mitragotri - Journal of controlled release, 2012 - Elsevier
Lysosomes play a critical role in intracellular drug delivery. For enzyme-based therapies,
they represent a potential target site whereas for nucleic acid or many protein drugs, they …

Role of energy in ballistic agglomeration

NV Brilliantov, AI Osinsky, PL Krapivsky - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
We study a ballistic agglomeration process in the reaction-controlled limit. Cluster densities
obey an infinite set of Smoluchowski rate equations, with rates dependent on the average …