New paper published!

Huge congratulations to Tobias on the publication of his first manuscript as the lead author! In our new manuscript, we explore the role of the shape of guest particles in the entropy-driven self-assembly of host–guest structures. We show that both the size and shape of the guest particles impact the types of structures that form. Further, we quantify the degree of entropy compartmentalization present in these assemblies, showing how the interplay between the strong localization of the host particles and the free space afforded to the guest particles in the host–guest structures dictates how the particles arrange themselves.

This work follows my previous work on hard particle systems that assemble into host–guest structures. In that paper, we showed how binary hard particle systems can provide a route to open structures; the new paper demonstrates that this phenomenon is not specific to the systems I was studying and provides quantitative evidence that entropy compartmentalization plays a key role.