How accurate are effective isotropic potentials in describing interactions between soft polymer-based nanoparticles? In this talk I discuss a few cases where this description leads not only to a quantitative, but also to a qualitative failure in capturing the phase behavior of these systems.

How anisotropic aggregates can originate from isotropic interactions

246th National Meeting (2013)

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