Comment on "Self-assembly of magnetic balls: From chains to tubes"

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2015 May;91(5):057201. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.91.057201. Epub 2015 May 19.

Abstract

The paper states that magnetic balls preferably assemble in a tube geometry if the number of particles exceeds N≥14. We find that for substantially higher particle counts, such as N>1300, a round cluster of densely packed magnetic balls with an fcc lattice can outmatch the described tube structure.

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