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Reply to "Comment on 'Self-assembly of magnetic balls: From chains to tubes' "
René Messina1, Igor Stanković2
1Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique - Approche Multi-Echelle des Milieux Complexes (LCP-A2MC), Institut de Chimie, Physique et Matériaux (ICPM), Université de Lorraine, 1 Boulevard Arago, 57070 Metz, France.
Abstract:
The authors of the Comment [Phys. Rev. E 91, 057201 (2015)] propose compact round clusters as, energetically, better candidates than stacked rings found in Messina et al. [Phys. Rev. E 89, 011202 (2014)] (forming open tubes) at a pretty large number of constitutive magnets, typically for N≳1300. Our new findings show that elongated rodlike structures can even outmatch the reported structures in Friedrich et al. [Phys. Rev. E 91, 057201 (2015)] and in Messina et al. [Phys. Rev. E 89, 011202 (2014)] from typically N≳460.
