on Friday, July 9, 2010

Author(s): Yasheng Yang, Robert B. Meyer, and Michael F. Hagan

We discuss dynamical simulations and free energy calculations on patchy spheres with chiral pair interactions that spontaneously assemble into filamentous bundles. The chirality frustrates long-range crystal order by introducing twist between interacting subunits. For some ranges of system parameter...

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 258102] Published Tue Jun 22, 2010