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en:research:colmol [2024/01/31 11:42] – created Piet Swinkelsen:research:colmol [2024/02/03 17:05] (current) Piet Swinkels
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-<col><card align-center image=":research:tetrapatch_binding.gif" footer="Figure 2: Two tetrapatch particles, bonded via one of their patches. These tetrapatch particles mimic sp³ hybridized carbon atoms, and can form intriguing colloidal molecules." no-body footer-text-align="left"></card></col>+<col><card align-center image=":en:research:tetrapatch_binding.gif" footer="Figure 2: Two tetrapatch particles, bonded via one of their patches. These tetrapatch particles mimic sp³ hybridized carbon atoms, and can form intriguing colloidal molecules." no-body footer-text-align="left"></card></col>
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-<col><card  align-center image=":research:colloidal-molecules.png" footer="Figure 3: Colloidal butane (left) and methyl-cyclohexane (right) assembled from tetrapatch particles. These colloidal molecules mimic their well-known atomic counterparts." no-body></card></col>+<col><card  align-center image=":en:research:colloidal-molecules.png" footer="Figure 3: Colloidal butane (left) and methyl-cyclohexane (right) assembled from tetrapatch particles. These colloidal molecules mimic their well-known atomic counterparts." no-body></card></col>
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 Colloids with directed interactions assemble into colloidal molecules, with structures mimicking that of atomic molecules. The figure shows colloidal molecules assembled from di- and tetrapatch colloidal particles. Optical microscopy images are shown on the left, and their molecular analogues on the right. These particles form molecular compounds known from organic chemistry, and because of their size can be directly observed at the particle scale by microscopy. Furthermore, their three-dimensional structure and dynamics is conveniently observed. As the colloidal molecule is in a highly thermally excited state, where quantum mechanical states become quasi continuous, it corresponds to the classical limit of its atomic counterpart, and as such presents a good model of the actual molecule. Colloids with directed interactions assemble into colloidal molecules, with structures mimicking that of atomic molecules. The figure shows colloidal molecules assembled from di- and tetrapatch colloidal particles. Optical microscopy images are shown on the left, and their molecular analogues on the right. These particles form molecular compounds known from organic chemistry, and because of their size can be directly observed at the particle scale by microscopy. Furthermore, their three-dimensional structure and dynamics is conveniently observed. As the colloidal molecule is in a highly thermally excited state, where quantum mechanical states become quasi continuous, it corresponds to the classical limit of its atomic counterpart, and as such presents a good model of the actual molecule.