Multiscale modeling of the surfactant mediated synthesis and supramolecular assembly of cobalt nanodots |
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Authors: | Adhikari Narayan P Peng Xihong Alizadeh Azar Ganti Surya Nayak Saroj K Kumar Sanat K |
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Institution: | Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA. |
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Abstract: | Multiscale simulations are used to bridge the surfactant templated assembly of individual approximately 1-10 nm cobalt dots, to their ordering into supramolecular arrays. Potential energy surfaces derived from ab initio calculations are input to lattice Monte Carlo simulations at atomic scales. By this process we quantitatively reproduce the experimental cobalt nanoparticle sizes. Crucially, we find that there is an effective short range attraction between pairs of nanodots. Mesoscale simulations show that these attractive interdot potentials are so short ranged that the dots can assemble only into orientally ordered hexatic phases as in the experiments. |
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