Dynamical inversion of the energy landscape promotes non-equilibrium self-assembly of binary mixtures [electronic resource].
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- Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Basic Energy Sciences, 2018.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy - Physical Description
- pages 1,640-1,646 : digital, PDF file
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy. Office of Basic Energy Sciences, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- Summary
- When driven out of equilibrium, many diverse systems can form complex spatial and dynamical patterns, even in the absence of attractive interactions. Using kinetic Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate the phase behavior of a binary system of particles of dissimilar size confined between semiflexible planar surfaces, in which the nanoconfinement introduces a non-local coupling between particles, which we model as an activation energy barrier to diffusion that decreases with the local fraction of the larger particle. The system autonomously reaches a cyclical non-equilibrium state characterized by the formation and dissolution of metastable micelle-like clusters with the small particles in the core and the large ones in the surrounding corona. The power spectrum of the fluctuations in the aggregation number exhibits 1/f noise reminiscent of self-organized critical systems. Finally, we suggest that the dynamical metastability of the micellar structures arises from an inversion of the energy landscape, in which the relaxation dynamics of one of the species induces a metastable phase for the other species.
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- E 1.99:1434007
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01/02/2018.
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Chemical Science 9 6 ISSN 2041-6520; CSHCBM AM
Luis Ruiz Pestana; Natalie Minnetian; Laura Nielsen Lammers; Teresa Head-Gordon. - Funding Information
- AC02-05CH11231
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