Design of patchy particles using quaternary self-assembled monolayers

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 3919-3924

  Pons Siepermann, Ines C ^a   Glotzer, Sharon C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissipative particle dynamics; Patchy particles; Phase separation; Quaternary; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

DISSIPATIVE PARTICLE DYNAMICS; ENTROPIC GAIN; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; LENGTH DIFFERENCE; NOVEL PATTERNS; PATCHY PARTICLES; QUATERNARY; SAMS; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SPHERICAL NANOPARTICLES;

PHASE SEPARATION; SELF ASSEMBLY; STOICHIOMETRY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS;

EID: 84864690403     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn300059x     Document Type: Article

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