Colloidal analogues of charged and uncharged polymer chains with tunable stiffness.
Yanking the chain: a general method for the preparation of colloidal analogues of polymer chains was developed. The flexibility of these chains can be tuned by applying electric fields in combination with their subjection to simple linkage-forming procedures.
Soft Condensed Matter, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. h.r.vutukuri@uu.nl
Hanumantha Rao
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Vutukuri
Ahmet Faik
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Demirörs
Bo
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Peng
Peter D J
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van Oostrum
Arnout
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Imhof
Alfons
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van Blaaderen