Morphology control of hairy nanopores

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 4737-4747

  Peleg, Orit ^a   Tagliazucchi, Mario ^b   Kröger, Martin ^a   Rabin, Yitzhak ^b,c   Szleifer, Igal ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

competing interactions; microphase separation; nanoconfinement; nanopore; soft matter

Indexed keywords

COMPETING INTERACTIONS; CONFINED ENVIRONMENT; INNER SURFACES; MICRO-PHASE; MORPHOLOGY CONTROL; NANO CHANNELS; NANOCONFINEMENTS; PLUG-INS; POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMER LAYERS; POOR SOLVENTS; PORE GEOMETRY; PORE LENGTH; PORE RADIUS; PORE WALL; SELF-ASSEMBLE; SOFT MATTER; SOLVENT CONDITIONS; SOLVENT QUALITY; SYSTEMATIC STUDY;

GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MICROPHASE SEPARATION; MORPHOLOGY; POLYMERS; SOLVENTS; VEHICULAR TUNNELS;

NANOPORES;

DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; POLYMER; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NANOPORE; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS;

BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOPORES; POLYMERS; PROBABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; SOLVENTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79959802262     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn200702u     Document Type: Article

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