Reentrant equilibrium disordering in nanoparticle–polymer mixtures

Colloids: Polymers hold it together, for a while Polymers need to be the right length if they are to hold NPs into a crystal structure, shows research from scientists in the USA. Sanat Kumar from Columbia University and colleagues explain why small particles suspended in a solution, known as a collo...

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Main Authors: Dong Meng, Sanat K. Kumar, Gary S. Grest, Nathan A. Mahynski, Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-01-01
Series:npj Computational Materials
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-016-0005-8