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  • Colloid and Surface Science
  • Soft Matter Physics
  • Computational Chemistry

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  • Colloid-colloid interactions are crucial in complex mixtures.
  • Tailoring these interactions is key for controlling material properties.
  • Cosolutes, particularly self-assembling ones, offer a route to modify intercolloid forces.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effective potential between colloids using a self-assembling patchy particle cosolute.
  • To explore the influence of cosolute valence and phase diagram on colloid interactions.
  • To understand how patchy particle assembly affects effective potentials and colloidal behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Numerical calculation of the effective potential (Veff) between two colloids.
  • Simulation of colloids immersed in a suspension of reversible patchy particles.
  • Exploration of the cosolute phase diagram and varying particle valence.

Main Results:

  • Identified tunable effective potentials beyond simple excluded volume and depletion effects.
  • Observed completely attractive but oscillatory effective potentials under specific conditions.
  • Demonstrated that polymerizing cosolutes induce local order, leading to oscillatory potentials.

Conclusions:

  • Patchy particle cosolutes can create complex, tunable effective potentials between colloids.
  • The observed oscillatory attraction is linked to local ordering induced by the cosolute.
  • These findings are vital for understanding complex mixtures and designing colloidal self-assembly for superstructures.