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Modeling Dimerization of C-Shaped Colloidal Particles Driven by Osmotic Pressure
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Li, Dong
ORCID® Identifier
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2599-6065
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1511883874484505
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Year and Degree
2017, MS, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Chemical Physics.
Abstract
As shown in recent experiments by Wang and Mason [JACS 2015, 137, 15308], achiral non-spherical colloidal particles can join together to form chiral dimers, locally breaking chiral symmetry. Wang and Mason studied “annular sector particles”, formed in the shape of the letter “C”, which have both convex and concave regions and can mutually interpenetrate to form lock-and-key dimer structures. In a thin cell geometry where the particles cannot rotate out of plane, two C-shaped particles can combine to form an S-shaped dimer with either right- or left-handedness. We perform Monte Carlo simulations of this system using a geometry similar to the experimental system, examine the mechanism of chiral symmetry-breaking, and investigate the phenomenon of chiral segregation by which like-chirality aggregates form clusters.
Committee
Robin Selinger (Advisor)
Pages
60 p.
Subject Headings
Physical Chemistry
Keywords
colloidal particles
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dimerization
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Li, D. (2017).
Modeling Dimerization of C-Shaped Colloidal Particles Driven by Osmotic Pressure
[Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1511883874484505
APA Style (7th edition)
Li, Dong.
Modeling Dimerization of C-Shaped Colloidal Particles Driven by Osmotic Pressure.
2017. Kent State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1511883874484505.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Li, Dong. "Modeling Dimerization of C-Shaped Colloidal Particles Driven by Osmotic Pressure." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1511883874484505
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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