Effect of monomer sequences on conformations of copolymers grafted on spherical nanoparticles: A Monte Carlo simulation study

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 132, Issue 16, 2010, Pages

  Seifpour, Arezou ^a   Spicer, Philip ^a   Nair, Nitish ^a   Jayaraman, Arthi ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCKINESS; CONFORMATIONAL ENTROPY; COPOLYMER CHAINS; DIBLOCK COPOLYMER; DIBLOCKS; EFFECTIVE INTERACTIONS; GRAFTED CHAINS; GRAFTED COPOLYMERS; GRAFTED NANOPARTICLES; GRAFTING DENSITIES; INTERCHAIN AGGREGATION; INTERFACIAL INTERACTION; MONOMER-MONOMER INTERACTIONS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MULTIBLOCKS; NANOPARTICLE ASSEMBLIES; ORGANIC LIGANDS; PARTICLE DIAMETERS; POWER LAW; PREFACTORS; RADIUS OF GYRATION; SCALING EXPONENT; SMALL MOLECULES; SPHERICAL NANOPARTICLES; SPHERICAL PARTICLE;

AGGLOMERATION; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CHAIN LENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COPOLYMERIZATION; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MONOMERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOPARTICLES; OLIGOMERS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; SPHERES;

CONFORMATIONS;

NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER; PROTEIN; SOLVENT;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; ROTATION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ADSORPTION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERS; PROTEINS; ROTATION; SOLVENTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 77952351893     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3385469     Document Type: Article

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