London dispersion forces and steric effects within nanocomposites tune interaction energies and chain conformation

Abstract The interplay between attractive London dispersion forces and steric effects due to repulsive forces resulting from the Pauli principle often determines the geometry and stability of nanostructures. Aromatic polyimides (PI) and carbon nanotubes (CNT) were chosen as building blocks as two co...

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Main Authors: Baode Zhang, Snežana D. Zarić, Sonja S. Zrilić, Iosif Gofman, Barbara Heck, Günter Reiter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-01-01
Series:Communications Chemistry
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-025-01414-4