Driven self-assembly of hard nanoplates on soft elastic shells*
Zhang Yao-Yanga), Hua Yun-Fengb), Deng Zhen-Yub)
       
Schematic illustrations showing the effects of bending energy on the driven self-assembly behaviors of regular triangle on soft elastic shells. A: Nanoplates are located randomly in the simulation box; B: nanoplates are adsorbed onto the shell; C: the whole system reaches equilibrium. Different attractive abilities of soft elastic shells and hard shells for regular triangles are given in the top right corner, and the cross means that the shell monomer and the regular triangle monomer are hardly attractive to each other.