Driven self-assembly of hard nanoplates on soft elastic shells*
Zhang Yao-Yanga), Hua Yun-Fengb), Deng Zhen-Yub)
       
Simulation snapshots of representative aggregation structures for regular triangle, regular square, regular hexagon, circle, and rod with various numbers of hard nanoplates N = 36, 48, and 60, respectively. Here the bending energy of the elastic shell is K b = 10000, and N is the total number of hard nanoplates.