title: Fully solvable equilibrium self-assembly process: fine-tuning the clusters size and the connectivity in patchy particle systems.
abstract: Self-assembly is the mechanism that controls the formation of well-defined structures from disordered pre-existing parts. Despite the importance of self-assembly as a manufacturing method and the increasingly large number of experimental realizations of complex self-assembled nano-aggregates, theoretical predictions are lagging behind. Here, we show that for a nontrivial self-assembly phenomenon, originating branched loopless clusters, it is possible to derive a fully predictive parameter-free theory of equilibrium self-assembly by combining the Wertheim theory for associating liquids with the Flory-Stockmayer approach for chemical gelation.
authors: Dipartimento di Fisica and INFM-CNR-SMC, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Piazzale A Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy.
authors: Emanuela
authors: E
authors: Bianchi
authors: Piero
authors: P
authors: Tartaglia
authors: Emilia
authors: E
authors: La  Nave
authors: Francesco
authors: F
authors: Sciortino