Surface roughness directed self-assembly of patchy particles into colloidal micelles

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 10787-10792

  Kraft, Daniela J ^a   Ni, Ran ^a   Smallenburg, Frank ^a   Hermes, Michiel ^a   Yoon, Kisun ^b   Weitz, David A ^b   Van Blaaderen, Alfons ^a   Groenewold, Jan ^a   Dijkstra, Marjolein ^a   Kegel, Willem K ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic colloids; Depletion interactions; Monte Carlo simulations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PATCHY COLLOIDAL PARTICLE SELF ASSEMBLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; CELL MEMBRANE; COLLOIDS; HUMANS; MICELLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

EID: 84863564456     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1116820109     Document Type: Article

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