Effective interactions between grafted nanoparticles in polymer melts: challenging full-scale simulations, effect of entanglements and morphology of clusters.

We employed an extended slip-spring model treating explicitly grafted polymer chains to study the effective potential of mean force (PMF) between two nanoparticles (NPs) embedded in an entangled polymer matrix as a function of NP grafting density, le…

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