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From: Theory, simulations and the design of functionalized nanoparticles for biomedical applications: A Soft Matter Perspective

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Phase diagram for (a) colloids in polymer solutions as calculated via the Asakura–Oosawa model154 (drawn with data from155) and (b) DNA-coated colloids (taken from ref. 7 with permission from the American Physical Society). Despite being completely different systems, they display a similar topology, as captured by (c) a simple square-well potential (taken from ref. 156 with permission from the American Physical Society). A general lesson from Soft Matter Physics is that apparently unrelated systems can display a very similar behaviour, due to the common shape of the interparticle interaction potential after coarse-graining

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