Self-organization in dipolar cube fluids constrained by competing anisotropies

Funding

The authors would like to thank P. Linse and W. K. Kegel for many helpful discussions. B. Erne is acknowledged for assistance with the alternating gradient magnetometer measurements. Mark Dekker is acknowledged for performing Curie balance measurements. We thank the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for the provided beam-time and for financial support through a Veni grant (L. R.). J. G. D. and S. S. K. are grateful to the financial support of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): START-Projekt Y 627-N27. S. S. K. also acknowledges the support of the Program of Russian Federation Ministry of Science and Education, project 3.1438.2017/4.6 and ETN-COLLDENSE (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014, Grant No. 642774). S. S. acknowledges funding provided by NSF CAREER award DMR-1653465. W. T. M. I. Acknowledges primary support from the University of Chicago Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, which is funded by National Science Foundation under award number DMR-1420709. Additional support was provided by the Packard Foundation. The Chicago MRSEC (US NSF grant DMR-1420709) is also gratefully acknowledged for access to its shared experimental facilities. Mena Youssef is thanked for taking SEM images. The Zeiss Merlin FESEM was acquired through the support of the NSF under award number DMR-0923251. The computational results presented here have been achieved using the Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC). J. M. M. acknowledges funding provided by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. We are also grateful to the DUBBLE personnel of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble for assistance with the small angle X-ray scattering experiments.