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Photo-controllable percolation of decorated nanoparticles in a nanopore: molecular dynamics simulation study

MMC.
2016;
Volume 3, Number 1
: pp. 33-42
https://doi.org/10.23939/mmc2016.01.033
Received: June 10, 2016

Math. Model. Comput. Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 33-42 (2016)

Authors:
  1. J. Ilnytskyi
  2. A. Slyusarchuk
  3. M. Saphiannikova
1
Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the Nat. Acad. Sci. of Ukraine; Lviv Polytechnic National University
2
Lviv Polytechnic National University
3
Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research

By means of molecular dynamics simulations we study formation of the wall-to-wall     percolation cluster in the solution of decorated nanoparticles in a pore. The model takes into account photo-switching between unpolar \trans\ and polar \cis-isomers of azobenzene. This leads to either colloidal dispersion of the particles or their aggregation     in a polar solvent. The dynamics of percolation cluster formation is analysed by applying a pulse-like illumination. We found that the wall-to-wall percolation is subject to the    competition between nanoparticles aggregation, wall adsorption and microphase    separation of the nanoparticles.

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