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Revealing viscoelastic bending relaxation dynamics of isolated semiflexible colloidal polymers

Published:2021 Issue:36 Volume:17 Page:8291-8299
ISSN:1744-683X
Container-title:Soft Matter
language:en
Short-container-title:Soft Matter

Author:

Stuij Simon G.¹^ORCID,Jonas Hannah J.²,Gong Zhe³^ORCID,Sacanna Stefano³^ORCID,Kodger Thomas E.⁴^ORCID,Bolhuis Peter G.²^ORCID,Schall Peter¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2. van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands

3. Molecular Design Institute, Department of Chemistry, New York University, 29 Washington Place, New York 10003, USA

4. Physical Chemistry and Soft Matter, Wageningen University, Stippeneng 4, 6708 WE Wageningen, The Netherlands

Abstract

We study semiflexible colloidal polymers assembled from di-patch particles via critical Casimir forces. By tuning the bond strength and resulting bending rigidity with temperature, we directly observe elastic relaxation and internal friction effects.

Funder

Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Condensed Matter Physics,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2021/SM/D1SM00556A

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