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FARADAY DISCUSSIONS
Volume 159, Issue -, Pages 9-21Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2fd20070h
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- ERC [227758]
- Royal Society of London [2007/R3]
- EPSRC [EP/I001352/1]
- Swiss National Science Foundation [PBELP2-130895]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/I001352/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [PBELP2-130895] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1209518] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- EPSRC [EP/I001352/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We report a numerical study on the phase behaviour of a 'patch-anti-patch' model for particles with tetrahedrally arranged attractive spots. In particular, we compute the phase equilibria between the fluid and a low density diamond cubic (DC) crystal for different realizations of the patch-anti-patch interaction. By increasing the 'specificity' of the patches, i.e. lowering the number of corresponding attractive 'anti-patches' to a given patch, we find that the metastability gap between the DC freezing boundary and the liquid-gas critical point widens considerably. We argue that this effect of interaction specificity is relevant for the description of protein phase diagrams, as patch-anti-patch interactions can stabilise relatively open, ordered structures.
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