Title
Self-assembly of magnetic colloids with shifted dipoles
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
Publisher(s)
Royal Society of Chemistry
Abstract
The self-assembly of colloidal magnetic Janus particles with a laterally displaced (or shifted), permanent dipole in a quasi-two-dimensional system is studied using Brownian dynamics simulations. The rate of formation of clusters and their structures are quantified for several values of dipolar shift from the particle center, which is nondimensionalized using the particle's radius so that it takes values ranging from 0 to 1, and examined under different magnetic interaction strengths relative to Brownian motion. For dipolar shifts close to 0, chain-like structures are formed, which grow at long times following a power law, while particles of shift higher than 0.2 generally aggregate in ring-like clusters that experience limited growth. In the case of shifts between 0.4 and 0.5, the particles tend to aggregate in clusters of 3 to 6, while for all shifts higher than 0.6 clusters rarely contain more than 3 particles due to the antiparallel dipole orientations that are most stable at those shifts. The strength of the magnetic interactions hastens the rate at which clusters are formed; however, the effect it has on cluster size is lessened by increases in the shift of the dipoles. These results contribute to better understand the dynamics of magnetic Janus particles and can help the synthesis of functionalized materials for specific applications such as drug delivery.
Start page
4078
End page
4086
Volume
15
Issue
20
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Nano-tecnología
Nano-materiales
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85066096054
PubMed ID
Source
Soft Matter
ISSN of the container
1744683X
DOI of the container
10.1039/c8sm02591f
Sponsor(s)
This project was supported by the National Science Foundation under CAREER Award NSF-CBET 1055284 and 1705656, and the National Institute of Health under award T34GM008419.
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