Title: A polymer-tethered particle confined in a slit
Author(s):

	T. Staszewski (Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland),
	M. Borówko (Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland)

Shape transformations of hairy nanoparticles under confinement are studied using molecular dynamic simulations. We discuss the behavior of these particles in slits with inert or attractive walls. We assume that only chain-wall interactions are attractive. The impact of the strength of interactions with the walls and the width of the slits on the particle configuration is shown. In the case of attractive surfaces, we found new structures in which the chains are connected with both walls and form bridges between them: pillars, symmetrical and asymmetrical spools, and hourglasses. In wide pores with strongly attractive walls, hairy particles adsorb on one of the surfaces and form "mounds" or starfish-like strucures.

Key words: hairy particles, slit-like pores, molecular dynamics

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