Morphology of polymer brushes infiltrated by attractive nanoinclusions of various sizes

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 27, 2013, Pages 8584-8591

  Opferman, Michael G ^a   Coalson, Rob D ^a   Jasnow, David ^a   Zilman, Anton ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS; INTERACTION STRENGTH; LANGEVIN DYNAMICS; NANOPARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; NANOPARTICLE SIZES; SELF CONSISTENT FIELD THEORY; STRONG INTERACTION; TRANSITION REGIONS;

BRUSHES; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MEAN FIELD THEORY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MORPHOLOGY; POLYMERS;

NANOPARTICLES;

NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84880152320     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la4013922     Document Type: Article

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