Universal Relation for Effective Interaction between Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles

Understanding the interactions between polymer-grafted nanoparticles is imperative to predict the macroscale mechanical properties of the nanocomposites they form. Molecular dynamics simulations capture the interfacial effects of grafting on structure and mobility, but directly linking these features to macroscale constitutive relations for nanocomposites remains challenging. As a step toward addressing this challenge, we develop a computational...