Harnessing Janus nanoparticles to create controllable pores in membranes

ACS Nano

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1117-1122

  Alexeev, Alexander ^a   Uspal, William E ^b   Balazs, Anna C ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulations; Controllable pore; Janus nanoparticles; Lipid membrane

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIPID BILAYERS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; SEDIMENTATION;

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS); BILAYER ASSEMBLIES; COARSE GRAINED (CG); CRITICAL VALUES; DISSIPATIVE PARTICLE DYNAMICS (DPD); ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONING; EXTERNAL FORCING; EXTERNAL STRESSES; JANUS NANOPARTICLES; LIPID-BILAYER MEMBRANES; MEMBRANE TENSION; NANO PARTICLES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; TARGETED DELIVERY;

MEMBRANES;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 47649103995     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn8000998     Document Type: Article

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