Solvent Effects on the Interaction of Charged Nanoparticles

Self-assembly is ubiquitous in nature, allowing for the bottom-up construction of ordered structures via non-covalent interactions. These mechanisms have found multiple applications in chemistry and materials sciences, providing low-cost, highly reproducible, highly tunable strategies for the construction of multidimensional structures with very high yield. The goal of this project is to computationally demonstrate a novel technique for tuning nanoparticle aggregation by controlling nanoparticle-solvent interactions at the molecular-level.