Attraction between nanoparticles induced by end-grafted homopolymers in good solvent

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1027-1030

  Roan, Jiunn Ren ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA;

EDWARDS SELF CONSISTENT FIELD THEORY; END GRAFTED HOMOPOLYMERS; STERIC STABILIZATION;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 18144446661     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1027     Document Type: Article

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