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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Self-Assembled Structures of Colloidal Dimers and Disks on a Spherical Surface.

Nkosinathi Dlamini, Santi Prestipino, Giuseppe Pellicane

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Self-Assembly of Particles on a Curved Mesh.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  4. DNA self-organization controls valence in programmable colloid design.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Nkosinathi DlaminiSchool of Chemistry and Physics, University of Kwazulu-Natal and National Institute of Theoretical Physics (NIThEP), Pietermaritzburg 3209, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-6932-5661
Santi PrestipinoDipartimento di Scienze Matematiche ed Informatiche, Scienze Fisiche e Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Messina, Viale F. Stagno d'Alcontres 31, 98166 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6266-7025
Giuseppe PellicaneSchool of Chemistry and Physics, University of Kwazulu-Natal and National Institute of Theoretical Physics (NIThEP), Pietermaritzburg 3209, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-3805-830X
University of Messina · ITNational Institute for Theoretical Physics · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We study self-assembly on a spherical surface of a model for a binary mixture of amphiphilic dimers in the presence of guest particles via Monte Carlo (MC) computer simulation. All particles had a hard core, but one monomer of the dimer also interacted with the guest particle by means of a short-range attractive potential. We observed the formation of aggregates of various shapes as a function of the composition of the mixture and of the size of guest particles. Our MC simulations are a further step towards a microscopic understanding of experiments on colloidal aggregation over curved surfaces, such as oil droplets.

Indexed as

amphiphilic aggregatesmolecular self-assemblyspherical boundary conditions

Identifiers

PMID34065124
PMCPMC8151720
OpenAlexW3162475375

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