Polymeric nanogels undergo large reversible volume changes with moderate changes in environmental conditions. We report the results of a theoretically informed coarse-grained Monte Carlo simulation of a polymeric nanogel placed in a
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Study of volume phase transitions in polymeric nanogels by theoretically informed coarse-grained simulations
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Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Evanston, USA
E-mail: m-olvera@northwestern.edu
E-mail: m-olvera@northwestern.edu
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Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Evanston, USA
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Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
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LPMCN, Universite de Lyon, Universite Lyon 1 and CNRS, UMR 5586, Villeurbanne, France
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Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Soft Matter, 2011,7, 5965-5975
DOI: 10.1039/C1SM05264K
Received 15 Feb 2011, Accepted 04 Apr 2011
First published online 21 Jun 2011
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