Quantifying the reversible association of thermosensitive nanoparticles

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Zaccone, Alessio ^a   Crassous, Jerome J ^b   Béri, Benjamin ^a   Ballauff, Matthias ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING FORCES; CORE-SHELL NANOPARTICLES; DISSOCIATION RATES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HYDROPHOBIC ATTRACTION; HYDROPHOBIC-HYDROPHILIC; MODEL SYSTEM; N-ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDES; REVERSIBLE AGGREGATION; REVERSIBLE ASSOCIATIONS; REVERSIBLE BINDING; SWITCHABLE; THEORETICAL MODELS; THERMO SENSITIVE; THERMO-RESPONSIVE;

ACRYLIC MONOMERS; AMIDES; BINDING ENERGY; BIOMOLECULES; DISSOCIATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; POLYSTYRENES; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 80053993448     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.168303     Document Type: Article

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