Hard models for particle interactions have played a crucial role in the understanding of the
structure of condensed matter. In particular, they help to explain the formation of oriented …

This article reviews recent progress in the computer simulation of liquid crystals at the
molecular level. It covers the use of simple rigid-body models of the constituent molecules …

Packing problems have been a source of fascination for millennia and their study has
produced a rich literature that spans numerous disciplines. Investigations of hard-particle …

For hard anisotropic particles the formation of a wide variety of fascinating crystal and liquid-
crystal phases is accomplished by entropy alone. A better understanding of these entropy …

The crystals of layered compounds are normally in the shape of disks or plates. Systematic
experiments revealed that regular-shaped α-zirconium phosphate crystalline disks with a …

We report the phase diagram of two-dimensional hard ellipses as obtained from replica
exchange Monte Carlo simulations. The replica exchange is implemented by expanding the …

Colloidal particles with anisotropic interactions can be synthesized by controlling the shape
of the particles. Exploiting the self‐assembly of these novel colloidal building blocks calls for …

We consider several patchy particle models that have been proposed in literature and we
investigate their candidate crystal structures in a systematic way. We compare two different …

We demonstrate the strong dependency of the isotropic-nematic (IN) transition of discotic
suspensions on the aspect ratio (ξ= thickness/diameter) via control of the sizes of pristine …

We demonstrate a facile route to in situ growth of lyotropic zirconium phosphate (ZrP)
nanoplates on textiles via an interfacial crystal growing process. The as-prepared hybrid …