Anisotropic aggregation in a simple model of isotropically polymer-coated nanoparticles

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Luiken, Jurriaan A ^a   Bolhuis, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TREATMENT; ASAKURA-OOSAWA MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; GRAND-CANONICAL MONTE CARLO; PARTICLE-BASED SIMULATION; POLYMER-COATED PARTICLES; SECOND VIRIAL COEFFICIENTS; THEORETICAL APPROACH;

MONTE CARLO METHODS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; RANGE FINDING;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84880634390     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.88.012303     Document Type: Article

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