Self-assembly of bifunctional patchy particles with anisotropic shape into polymers chains: Theory, simulations, and experiments

Macromolecules

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1090-1106

  De Michele, Cristiano ^a   Bellini, Tommaso ^b   Sciortino, Francesco ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE PAIRS; BIFUNCTIONAL; COARSE GRAINED MODELS; CONCENTRATED SOLUTION; CRITICAL VOLUME; CYLINDRICAL PARTICLES; DNA DUPLEXES; DOUBLE-HELICAL; ENERGY FUNCTIONALS; EQUILIBRIUM POLYMERIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASIS; NEMATIC LIQUIDS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PERSISTENCE LENGTH; POLYDISPERSE CHAINS; REACTIVE SITE; SQUARE-WELL POTENTIALS; STACKING ENERGY; STACKING INTERACTION; SYSTEM STRUCTURES; TERMINAL SITE; THEORETICAL RESULT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; EXPERIMENTS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLYDISPERSITY; SELF ASSEMBLY;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 84856166486     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma201962x     Document Type: Article

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