Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Self-assembly mechanism in colloids: perspectives from Statistical
  Physics   Motivated by recent experimental findings in chemical synthesis of colloidal
particles, we draw an analogy between self-assembly processes occurring in
biological systems (e.g. protein folding) and a new exciting possibility in the
field of material science. We consider a self-assembly process whose elementary
building blocks are decorated patchy colloids of various types, that
spontaneously drive the system toward a unique and predetermined targeted
macroscopic structure.
  To this aim, we discuss a simple theoretical model -- the Kern-Frenkel model
-- describing a fluid of colloidal spherical particles with a pre-defined
number and distribution of solvophobic and solvophilic regions on their
surface. The solvophobic and solvophilic regions are described via a
short-range square-well and a hard-sphere potentials, respectively.
  Integral equation and perturbation theories are presented to discuss
structural and thermodynamical properties, with particular emphasis on the
computation of the fluid-fluid (or gas-liquid) transition in the
temperature-density plane.
  The model allows the description of both one and two attractive caps, as a
function of the fraction of covered attractive surface, thus interpolating
between a square-well and a hard-sphere fluid, upon changing the coverage.
  By comparison with Monte Carlo simulations, we assess the pros and the cons
of both integral equation and perturbation theories in the present context of
patchy colloids, where the computational effort for numerical simulations is
rather demanding.

25
The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
30
The categories of this paper are: q-alg
9
The categories of this paper are: nlin
13
The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
35
The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
21
The categories of this paper are: adap-org
8
The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
32
The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
16
The categories of this paper are: stat
19
The categories of this paper are: eess
33
The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
22
The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
5
The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
0
The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
23
The categories of this paper are: solv-int
11
The categories of this paper are: hep-lat