Abstract

Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations are performed to study the structural formation, counterion distribution and effective interaction on charged dendrimers in an aqueous solution. In particular, the many-body effects in triplet systems are clarified. The conformation of a dendrimer molecule depends on the size of counterions, and the counterion distribution can be scaled by the gyration radius of a dendrimer molecule. Two-body and three-body interactions have been numerically investigated, and the results indicate both similarities and differences between dendrimer solutions and other soft colloidal systems, such as star polymer solutions.

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