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Effects of linker flexibility on phase behavior and structure of linked colloidal gels
Michael P. Howard, Zachary M. Sherman, Adithya N Sreenivasan +4
Colloidal nanocrystal gels can be assembled using a difunctional "linker" molecule to mediate bonding between nanocrystals. The conditions for gelation and the structure of the gel…
Wertheim's thermodynamic perturbation theory with double-bond association and its application to colloid-linker mixtures
Michael P. Howard, Zachary M. Sherman, Delia J. Milliron +1
We extend Wertheim's thermodynamic perturbation theory to derive the association free energy of a multicomponent mixture for which double bonds can form between any two pairs of th…
Stratification of polymer mixtures in drying droplets: hydrodynamics and diffusion
Michael P. Howard, Arash Nikoubashman
We study the evaporation-induced stratification of a mixture of short and long polymer chains in a drying droplet using molecular simulations. We systematically investigate the eff…
Inverse methods for design of soft materials
Zachary M. Sherman, Michael P. Howard, Beth A. Lindquist +2
Functional soft materials, comprising colloidal and molecular building blocks that self-organize into complex structures as a result of their tunable interactions, enable a wide ar…
Universal Gelation of Metal Oxide Nanocrystals via Depletion Attractions
Camila A. Saez Cabezas, Zachary M. Sherman, Michael P. Howard +6
Nanocrystal gelation provides a powerful framework to translate nanoscale properties into bulk materials and to engineer emergent properties through the assembled microstructure. H…