A DPD model of soft spheres with waterlike anomalies and poly(a)morphism

Abstract

Core-softened approaches have been employed to understand the behavior of a large variety of systems in soft condensed matter, from biological molecules to colloidal crystals, glassy phases, and water-like anomalies....

Core-softened colloid under extreme geometrical confinement

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