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Volume 103, Issue 23

4 December 2009
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Simulated snapshots of equilibrium configurations of a model of spherical colloidal Janus particles at different densities and temperatures. The two hemispheres of a Janus particle display different physical and/or chemical properties, giving rise to peculiar self-assembly behaviors.

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Phase Diagram of Janus Particles
Francesco Sciortino, Achille Giacometti, and Giorgio Pastore
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 237801 (2009)

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