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  • Soft Matter Physics
  • Materials Science
  • Computational Chemistry

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  • Systems with competing interactions (short-range attraction, long-range repulsion) exhibit microphase formation.
  • Confinement effects significantly influence self-assembly in colloidal systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the self-assembly of colloidal systems with competing interactions under spherical confinement.
  • To compare simulation results with a geometric model for predicting ordered structures.

Main Methods:

  • Grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations were employed to model the colloidal system.
  • The study focused on thermodynamic conditions favoring hexagonal phases of cylindrical clusters in bulk.

Main Results:

  • Spontaneous formation of various ordered structures was observed within the spherical shells.
  • Simulation outcomes showed excellent agreement with predictions from a simple geometric model.
  • The model's accuracy is attributed to considering geometry and optimal packing of colloidal clusters.

Conclusions:

  • Geometric models can effectively predict self-assembly in confined colloidal systems.
  • Findings offer insights for manufacturing copolymer nanocapsules.
  • The study suggests potential applications in coiling DNA strands on spherical substrates.