The free-energy landscape of clusters of attractive hard spheres

Science

Volumn 327, Issue 5965, 2010, Pages 560-563

  Meng, Guangnan ^a   Arkus, Natalie ^a   Brenner, Michael P ^a   Manoharan, Vinothan N ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERE; NANOPARTICLE; POLY(N ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDE); POLYSTYRENE;

COLLOID; ELECTRON; ENTROPY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; COLLOID; ENTROPY; GEOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 75749107767     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1181263     Document Type: Article

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30. We thank F. Spaepen and Z. Cheng for helpful discussions. We acknowledge support from NSF under award numbers DMR-0820484, CBET-0747625, and DM5-0907985; from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under contract BAA 07-21; and from the Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology at Harvard University.