Polymer-induced entropic depletion potential

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Cao, Xue Zheng ^a   Merlitz, Holger ^a,b   Wu, Chen Xu ^a   Sommer, Jens Uwe ^b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHERMAL POLYMER SOLUTIONS; ATTRACTION FORCE; CORRELATION LENGTHS; DEPLETION FORCE; DEPLETION POTENTIAL; EFFECTIVE INTERACTIONS; PACKING EFFECTS; PARTICLE CONTACTS; POLYMER CHAINS; SCALING MODEL; VIRIAL COEFFICIENT;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 80054886981     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.041802     Document Type: Article

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