Spontaneous asymmetry of coated spherical nanoparticles in solution and at liquid-vapor interfaces

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 23, 2010, Pages

  Lane, J Matthew D ^a   Grest, Gary S ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

END GROUPS; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; LIQUID-VAPOR INTERFACE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; SELF-ASSEMBLE; SPHERICAL NANOPARTICLES; SPHERICAL PARTICLE; SPHERICAL SYMMETRY; SURFACE PATTERN; WATER-VAPOR INTERFACE;

COATINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOPARTICLES; SPHERES; WATER VAPOR;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 77953511316     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.235501     Document Type: Article

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