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Inside Back Cover: Colloidal Analogues of Charged and Uncharged Polymer Chains with Tunable Stiffness (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 45/2012)
Author(s) -
Vutukuri Hanumantha Rao,
Demirörs Ahmet Faik,
Peng Bo,
van Oostrum Peter D. J.,
Imhof Arnout,
van Blaaderen Alfons
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201208088
Subject(s) - polymer , colloid , bead , dielectric , flexibility (engineering) , monomer , materials science , spring (device) , cover (algebra) , nanotechnology , chemical physics , polymer chemistry , chemical engineering , chemistry , optoelectronics , composite material , physics , thermodynamics , mechanical engineering , engineering , mathematics , statistics
Colloidal analogues of (bio)polymer chains with tunable flexibility can be prepared from dielectric colloids by using a combination of electric fields and a simple bonding step, as described by H. R. Vutukuri, A. van Blaaderen, et al. in their Communication on page 11249 ff. These model systems can be used to study the classic bead‐spring and bead‐rod model systems for (semi)flexible and rigid polymers, respectively, in real space and in real time on the monomer level.