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University of Vienna

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This shows inverse patchy colloids (IPC) with two positively charged regions (in yellow) and one negatively charged equatorial belt (in gray) are confined in the vicinity of a uniformly charged substrate (in yellow).

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(Copyright: Emanuela Bianchi)

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