Simulating self-organized molecular patterns using interaction-site models.
Summary of "Simulating self-organized molecular patterns using interaction-site models."
Molecular building blocks interacting at the nanoscale organize spontaneously into stable monolayers that display intriguing long-range ordering motifs on the surface of atomic substrates. The patterning process, if appropriately controlled, represents a viable route to manufacture practical nanodevices. With this goal in mind, we seek to capture the salient features of the self-assembly process by means of an interaction-site model. The geometry of the building blocks, the symmetry of the underlying substrate, and the strength and range of interactions encode the self-assembly process. By means of Monte Carlo simulations, we have predicted an ample variety of ordering motifs which nicely reproduce the experimental results. Here, we explore in detail the phase behavior of the system in terms of the temperature and the lattice constant of the underlying substrate.
Affiliation
Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics (ASC) and Center for NanoScience (CeNS), Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstraße 37, 80333, München, Germany.
Journal Details
This article was published in the following journal.
Name: The European physical journal. E, Soft matter
ISSN: 1292-895X
Pages: 1-8
Links
- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22457153
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2012-12025-x
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