Self-assembly of soft nanoparticles with tunable patchiness

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 721-726

  Hermans, Thomas M ^a   Broeren, Maarten A C ^a   Gomopoulos, Nikos ^b   Van Der Schoot, Paul ^a   Van Genderen, Marcel H P ^a   Sommerdijk, Nico A J M ^a   Fytas, George ^b   Meijer, E W ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENDRIMERS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULES; NANOPARTICLES; SOLS; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ATTRACTIVE REGION; DIRECTED INTERACTIONS; GUEST MOLECULES; HYDROPHOBIC PATCH; JANUS PARTICLES; MESOSCOPIC ORDERING; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; SELF ASSEMBLED STRUCTURES;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

DENDRIMER; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE; WATER;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DILUTION; DYNAMICS; FORCE; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUBILITY; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 70449559194     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2009.232     Document Type: Article

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