title: Reply to "Comment on 'Self-assembly of magnetic balls: From chains to tubes' ".
abstract: The authors of the Comment [Phys. Rev. E 91, 057201 (2015)] propose compact round clusters as, energetically, better candidates than stacked rings found in Messina et al. [Phys. Rev. E 89, 011202 (2014)] (forming open tubes) at a pretty large number of constitutive magnets, typically for N≳1300. Our new findings show that elongated rodlike structures can even outmatch the reported structures in Friedrich et al. [Phys. Rev. E 91, 057201 (2015)] and in Messina et al. [Phys. Rev. E 89, 011202 (2014)] from typically N≳460.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique - Approche Multi-Echelle des Milieux Complexes (LCP-A2MC), Institut de Chimie, Physique et Matériaux (ICPM), Université de Lorraine, 1 Boulevard Arago, 57070 Metz, France.
authors.forename: René
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Messina
authors.affiliation: Scientific Computing Laboratory, Institute of Physics Belgrade, University of Belgrade, 11080 Belgrade, Serbia.
authors.forename: Igor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Stanković