%A Paul,Sanjib %A Vashisth,Harish %D 2021 %J Frontiers in Physics %C %F %G English %K lobed particles,self-assembly,Porous structures,Particle mixtures,Langevin dynamics %Q %R 10.3389/fphy.2021.767623 %W %L %M %P %7 %8 2021-October-19 %9 Original Research %# %! Lobed Particle Mixture Self Assembly %* %< %T Self-Assembly of Porous Structures From a Binary Mixture of Lobed Patchy Particles %U https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2021.767623 %V 9 %0 JOURNAL ARTICLE %@ 2296-424X %X We report simulation studies on the self-assembly of a binary mixture of snowman and dumbbell shaped lobed particles. Depending on the lobe size and temperature, different types of self-assembled structures (random aggregates, spherical aggregates, liquid droplets, amorphous wire-like structures, amorphous ring structures, crystalline structures) are observed. At lower temperatures, heterogeneous structures are formed for lobed particles of both shapes. At higher temperatures, homogeneous self-assembled structures are formed mainly by the dumbbell shaped particles, while the snowman shaped particles remain in a dissociated state. We also investigated the porosities of self-assembled structures. The pore diameters in self-assemblies increased with an increase in temperature for a given lobe size. The particles having smaller lobes produced structures with larger pores than the particles having larger lobes. We further investigated the effect of σ, a parameter in the surface-shifted Lennard-Jones potential, on the self-assembled morphologies and their porosities. The self-assembled structures formed at a higher σ value are found to produce larger pores than those at a lower σ.