Patchy particles

Patchy particles

Anisotropy dimensions

Anisotropy dimensions is a classification scheme for patchy particles (See Figure 2 of ). The eight attributes are as follows:

Surface coverage (A)

Aspect ratio (B)

Faceting (C)

Pattern quantisation (D)

Branching (E)

Chemical ordering (F)

Shape gradient (G)

Roughness (H)

Models

• Bol model of water
• Dahl and Andersen model of water
• Kern and Frenkel patchy model
• Modulated patchy Lennard-Jones model
• Smith and Nezbeda associated fluid model

See also

• Colloids
• Emulsions
• Janus particles
• Phase diagram of anisotropic particles with octahedral symmetry
• Phase diagram of anisotropic particles with tetrahedral symmetry
• Wertheim's first order thermodynamic perturbation theory (TPT1)

References

Related reading

• Amar B. Pawar and Ilona Kretzschmar "Fabrication, Assembly, and Application of Patchy Particles", Macromolecular Rapid Communications 31 pp. 150-168 (2010)