I was chosen to participate in a summer research program for undergraduates at Penn State University and that is what I am working on currently. I am working with the Velegol Lab Group researching packing fractions in colloidal assemblies. We are using macro scale modeling to predict the packing fraction of different ratios of singlets and doublets as seen in a normal colloidal suspension. To simulate the singlets and doublets, as shown below, we used a single bb to represent a singlet and two bbs uper-glued together to represent a doublet. We started off with the known packing fractions of total singlets and total doublets which are 64% and 57% respectively. It is our goal in doing this research to find out what happens in between these two numbers.
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