[HTML][HTML] Evaporation-induced assembly of colloidal crystals

MP Howard, WF Reinhart, T Sanyal, MS Shell… - The Journal of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Colloidal crystals are often prepared by evaporation from solution, and there is considerable
interest to link the processing conditions to the crystal morphology and quality. Here, we …

FCC-HCP coexistence in dense thermo-responsive microgel crystals

D Karthickeyan, RG Joshi, BVR Tata - The Journal of Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Analogous to hard-sphere suspensions, monodisperse thermo-responsive poly (N-isopropyl
acrylamide)(PNIPAM) microgel particles beyond a volume fraction (ϕ) of 0.5 freeze into face …

Advanced Monte Carlo simulation techniques to study polymers under equilibrium conditions

M Angwani, T Mahendrakar, K Rane - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.11722, 2023 - arxiv.org
The advances in materials and biological sciences have necessitated the use of molecular
simulations to study polymers. The Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations enable the …

[HTML][HTML] Preparation of 2D Periodic Nanopatterned Arrays through Vertical Vibration-Assisted Convective Deposition for Application in Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence

K Dhanasiwawong, K Thamaphat, M Horprathum… - Processes, 2022 - mdpi.com
The performance of a metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF) substrate is fundamentally based
on the orientation of the metal nanostructures on a solid substrate. In particular, two …

Reentrant equilibrium disordering in nanoparticle–polymer mixtures

D Meng, SK Kumar, GS Grest, NA Mahynski… - npj Computational …, 2017 - nature.com
A large body of experimental work has established that athermal colloid/polymer mixtures
undergo a sequence of transitions from a disordered fluid state to a colloidal crystal to a …

[PDF][PDF] Stimuli Responsive Microgel Particles and Microgel Crystals as Studied By Light Based Techniques

D KARTHICKEYAN - 2017 - hbni.ac.in
This chapter deals with the identification of volume phase transition in PNIPAM microgels
using DLS and successful implementation of optical tweezers (OT) in the identification of …