Illustration from Scientific Research

A patchy-particle model used for Monte Carlo simulations, highlighting the patch state with variable p ( p = 1 for closed state and p = 0 for open state), and the P open the probability that a patch has a state p = 0. Other model parameters defined as in the classical Kern–Frenkel model, where is the diameter of the hard-core repulsion, is the attraction range and pw is the patch width. r ij is the center-to-center distance between the two interacting particles, i and j . See Supplementary Information for details.

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