Fig. 27.

Potential of mean force between two grafted nanoparticles in two cases, $\mathrm{\Sigma }=0.38$ chains/${\mathit{\sigma }}^2$ and matrix chain length $M=10$ shown in solid black lines; $\mathrm{\Sigma }=0.76$ chains$/{\mathit{\sigma }}^2$ and $M=70$ shown in solid red lines. The dotted lines show the potential of mean force obtained from the corresponding cases of the work of Smith and Bedrov [274]. (Color figure online) (Reprinted from [266]—Published by The Royal Society of Chemistry.)