Differently shaped hard body colloids in confinement: From passive to active particles

We review recent progress in the theoretical description of anisotropic hard colloidal particles. The shapes considered range from rods and dumbbells to rounded cubes, polyhedra to biaxial particles with arbitrary shape. Our focus is on both static and dynamical density functional theory and on comp...

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Published inThe European physical journal. ST, Special topics Vol. 222; no. 11; pp. 3023 - 3037
Main Authors Wensink, H. H., Löwen, H., Marechal, M., Härtel, A., Wittkowski, R., Zimmermann, U., Kaiser, A., Menzel, A. M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.11.2013
Subjects
Atomic
Classical and Continuum Physics
Condensed Matter Physics
Materials Science
Measurement Science and Instrumentation
Molecular
Optical and Plasma Physics
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Review
Colloidal Dispersion
Brownian Dynamic
European Physical Journal Special Topic
Anisotropic Particle
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Summary:We review recent progress in the theoretical description of anisotropic hard colloidal particles. The shapes considered range from rods and dumbbells to rounded cubes, polyhedra to biaxial particles with arbitrary shape. Our focus is on both static and dynamical density functional theory and on computer simulations. We describe recent results for the structure, dynamics and phase behaviour in the bulk and in various confining geometries, e.g. established by two parallel walls which reduce the dimensionality of the system to two dimensions. We also include recent theoretical modelling for active particles, which are autonomously driven by some intrinsic motor, and highlight their fascinating nonequilibrium dynamics and collective behaviour.
ISSN:1951-6355
1951-6401
DOI:10.1140/epjst/e2013-02073-0