Simulation studies of the self-assembly of cone-shaped particles

Langmuir

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 6598-6605

  Chen, Ting ^a   Zhang, Zhenli ^a   Glotzer, Sharon C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONE ANGLES; GEOMETRICAL PACKING ANALYSIS; SELF-ASSEMBLED CLUSTERS;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; POLYMORPHISM; SELF ASSEMBLY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 34250686668     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la063755d     Document Type: Article

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