Crowding of polymer coils and demixing in nanoparticle-polymer mixtures

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 23, Issue 28, 2011, Pages

  Lu, Ben ^a   Denton, Alan R ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASAKURA-OOSAWA-VRIJ MODEL; COLLOID-POLYMER MIXTURE; DE-MIXING; DEPLETION INTERACTIONS; FREE-VOLUME THEORY; GIBBS ENSEMBLE; HARD PARTICLES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NONADSORBING POLYMERS; POLYDISPERSES; POLYMER COILS; POLYMER CONFORMATION; RADIUS OF GYRATION;

MIXTURES; NANOPARTICLES; POLYDISPERSITY;

POLYMERS;

NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STATISTICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOPARTICLES; POLYMERS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79960470435     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/23/28/285102     Document Type: Article

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