Lock and key colloids

By S. Sacanna, William T. M. Irvine, P. Chaikin, D. Pine. Nature, 2009

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Subfields: Molecular Biology, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Surfaces, Coatings and Films

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• Active Particles in Complex and Crowded Environments (2016, methodology): “ive bath) with matching shapes is an interesting possibility. This has already been explored for the case of passive colloidal particles, e.g. the depletion-driven lock-and-key mechanism presented in Sacanna et al. (2010) and the selfassembly of nanostructures tunable using critical Casimir forces p”
• Insights into Protein–Ligand Interactions: Mechanisms, Models, and Methods (2016, methodology): “Using geometric-complementary colloidal particles as study objects, the lock-and-key binding and the underlying mechanisms have been investigated experimentally [67,68] or theoretically by means of density functional theory [69], hypernetted-chain integral equation theory [70,71], dissipative partic”