Aggregation behavior of nanoparticles: Revisiting the phase diagram of colloids

M Bini, G Brancolini, V Tozzini - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Surface functionalization of metal nanoparticles (NPs), eg, using peptides and proteins, has
recently attracted a considerable attention in the field of design of therapeutics and …

Charge regulated diffusion of silica nanoparticles into wood for flame retardant transparent wood

A Samanta, M Höglund, P Samanta… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The preparation of wood substrates modified by charged inorganic nanoparticles (NPs)
diffusing into the internal cell wall structure is investigated for generating functional …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of hen phosvitin in aqueous salt solutions: Size, structure, and aggregation

M Takeuchi, T Mashima, M Sztucki, AV Petukhov… - Food …, 2022 - Elsevier
Phosvitins is a key egg yolk protein and can often be found in food emulsions. It is highly
phosphorylated and hence phosvitins contain a large number of negatively charged amino …

[HTML][HTML] Building polymer-like clusters from colloidal particles with isotropic interactions, in aqueous solution

S Haddadi, M Skepö, P Jannasch, S Manner… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Colloidal particles that interact via a long-ranged repulsive barrier in
combination with a very short-ranged attractive minimum can “polymerize” to form highly …

Effective electrostatic interaction between columnar colloids: roles of solvent steric hindrance, polarity, and surface geometric characteristics

S Zhou - Molecular Physics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In the present work, coupling between the electrostatic interaction and solvent steric
hindrance, and solvent polarity are studied by classical density functional theory with …

Short-and long-time diffusion and dynamic scaling in suspensions of charged colloidal particles

AJ Banchio, M Heinen, P Holmqvist… - The Journal of chemical …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We report on a comprehensive theory-simulation-experimental study of collective and self-
diffusion in concentrated suspensions of charge-stabilized colloidal spheres. In theory and …

Surface Charged Polymeric Micelles─ A Tunable Model System Studied by SANS

L Tea, L Willner, C Waldorf, O Matsarskaia… - …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We investigate surface charged “starlike” micelles in aqueous solution formed by carboxy
terminated n-octacosyl-poly (ethylene oxide) block copolymers, C28-PEO5-COOH with 5 the …

Experimental validation of interpolation method for pair correlations in model crystals

EV Yakovlev, M Chaudhuri, NP Kryuchkov… - The Journal of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Accurate analysis of pair correlations in condensed matter allows us to establish relations
between structures and thermodynamic properties and, thus, is of high importance for a wide …

Highly asymmetric electrolytes in the primitive model: Hypernetted chain solution in arbitrary spatial dimensions

M Heinen, E Allahyarov… - Journal of Computational …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The pair‐correlation functions for fluid ionic mixtures in arbitrary spatial dimensions are
computed in hypernetted chain (HNC) approximation. In the primitive model (PM), all ions …

Crystal nucleation of highly screened charged colloids

M De Jager, L Filion - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We study the nucleation of nearly hard charged colloidal particles. We use Monte Carlo
simulations in combination with free-energy calculations to accurately predict the phase …