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Dias CS, Braga C, Araújo NA, et al. Relaxation dynamics of functionalized colloids on attractive substrates. Soft Matter. 2015;12(5):1550-7doi: 10.1039/c5sm02754c.
Dias, C. S., Braga, C., Araújo, N. A., & Telo da Gama, M. M. (2016). Relaxation dynamics of functionalized colloids on attractive substrates. Soft matter, 12(5), 1550-7. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5sm02754c
Dias, C S, et al. "Relaxation dynamics of functionalized colloids on attractive substrates." Soft matter vol. 12,5 (2016): 1550-7. doi: https://doi.org/10.1039/c5sm02754c
Dias CS, Braga C, Araújo NA, Telo da Gama MM. Relaxation dynamics of functionalized colloids on attractive substrates. Soft Matter. 2016 Feb 07;12(5):1550-7. doi: 10.1039/c5sm02754c. Epub 2015 Dec 11. PMID: 26661327.
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Soft Matter. 2016 Feb 07;12(5):1550-7. doi: 10.1039/c5sm02754c. Epub 2015 Dec 11.

Relaxation dynamics of functionalized colloids on attractive substrates.

Soft matter

C S Dias, C Braga, N A M Araújo, M M Telo da Gama

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  1. Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Departamento de Física, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. [email protected].

PMID: 26661327 DOI: 10.1039/c5sm02754c

Abstract

Particle-based simulations are performed to study the post-relaxation dynamics of functionalized (patchy) colloids adsorbed on an attractive substrate. Kinetically arrested structures that depend on the number of adsorbed particles and the strength of the particle-particle and particle-substrate interactions are identified. The radial distribution function is characterized by a sequence of peaks, with relative intensities that depend on the number of adsorbed particles. The first-layer coverage is a non-monotonic function of the number of particles, with an optimal value around one layer of adsorbed particles. The initial relaxation towards these structures is characterized by a fast (exponential) and a slow (power-law) dynamics. The fast relaxation timescale is a linearly increasing function of the number of adsorbed particles in the submonolayer regime, but it saturates for more than one adsorbed layer. The slow dynamics exhibits two characteristic exponents, depending on the surface coverage.

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