Self-Assembly of Colloidal Dumbbell Isomers and Plasmonic Properties for Optical Metamaterials

T Vu-Minh, C Tran-Manh, H Pham-Van - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
In this study, we explore the self-assembly of various colloidal symmetric dumbbell (DB)
isomers, including dipole Janus, cis-Janus, trans-Janus, apolar-inward and polar-inward …

Evaporation-driven assembly of colloidal nanoparticles into clusters: A dissipative particle dynamics study

T Vu-Minh, A Dao-Hong, P Bui-Bich… - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
In this work we consider a simulation strategy for assembling Janus nanoparticles in oil-in-
water emulsion droplets by evaporation based on the dissipative particle dynamics method …

Crystal structures in binary hard-sphere colloid-droplet mixtures with patchy cross interactions

HP Van, A Fortini, M Schmidt - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
A binary mixture of droplets and patchy colloids, where patches are arranged in tetrahedral
symmetry, is studied with Metropolis Monte Carlo simulations. The colloidal patches attract …

Two-dimensional clusters of colloidal particles induced by emulsion droplet evaporation

H Pham-Van, L Tran-Phan-Thuy, C Tran-Manh… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
The minimization principle of the second moment of the mass distribution (M 2) is
responsible for the unique structure of three-dimensional clusters by using emulsion droplet …

Tunable crystal structures of binary mixtures of various patchy colloids and droplets

NT Ha, NTT Nam, PV Hai - Journal of Dispersion Science and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In this work, a series of binary mixtures of patchy colloids with desired symmetries, including
quadrangle, pentagon, hexagon, is studied by means of Metropolis Monte Carlo simulations …

Assembled crystal structures of cubic patchy colloid-droplet mixtures: theoretical prediction and simulation study

T Vu-Minh, N Nguyen-Tran-Thanh… - Colloid and Polymer …, 2023 - Springer
Using a theoretical prediction based on space-filling calculations and Metropolis Monte
Carlo simulation, we investigate the assembly behavior of binary colloid-droplet mixtures …

Assembly of one-patch colloids into clusters via emulsion droplet evaporation

H Pham Van, A Fortini, M Schmidt - Materials, 2017 - mdpi.com
We study the cluster structures of one-patch colloidal particles generated by droplet
evaporation using Monte Carlo simulations. The addition of anisotropic patch–patch …

Phase behavior and crystal structure of binary mixtures of droplets and four-patch colloids

N Nguyen-Tran-Thanh, H Nguyen-Thu… - Journal of the Physical …, 2021 - journals.jps.jp
We report simulation studies on the phase behavior and crystal structures of anisotropic
colloid–droplet binary mixtures. The droplets interact with the colloids at the patches of …

[HTML][HTML] Evaporation-induced assembly of colloidal clusters into superclusters with nonconvex deltahedral geometry

H Pham-Van, C Tran-Manh, B Do-Danh… - AIP Advances, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Using small colloidal clusters with dumbbell, triplet, tetrahedral, octahedral geometry as
elementary building blocks, we investigate the templated-assisted cluster-cluster …

Template–assisted assembly of asymmetric colloidal dumbbells into desirable cluster structures

H Pham-Van, H Luc-Huy, T Nguyen-Minh - Colloid and Polymer Science, 2018 - Springer
In this report, using Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate the cluster structure of colloidal
dumbbells with asymmetric properties in sizes via emulsion droplet evaporation. By tuning …