Interaction between polymer brush-coated spherical nanoparticles: Effect of solvent quality

Macromolecules

Volumn 45, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 8892-8902

  Loverso, Federica ^a   Egorov, Sergei A ^b   Binder, Kurt ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE SHELL STRUCTURE; DENSITY PROFILE; END-TO-END DISTANCES; FLEXIBLE POLYMER CHAINS; GRAFTED CHAINS; GRAFTING DENSITIES; LIQUID BRIDGE; LONG CHAINS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; POOR SOLVENTS; POTENTIAL OF MEAN FORCE; SELF CONSISTENT FIELD THEORY; SHORT CHAIN LENGTHS; SOLVENT QUALITY; SPHERICAL BRUSHES; SPHERICAL NANOPARTICLES; SPHERICAL PARTICLE; SPHERICAL POLYMERS; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; WEAK BINDING;

GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MEAN FIELD THEORY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; NANOPARTICLES; SOLVENTS; SPHERES;

CHAIN LENGTH;

EID: 84869077105     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma301651z     Document Type: Article

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