surface-initiated polymerization: the characterization of polymer chain conformation, grafting density and polydispersity correlated to the grafting surface curvature

In our model, the immobile frozen particles are used to construct the spherical surface template of the NP. For a specific NP with determined radius, we first use the geodesic subdivision method to get all the vertex positions. This method is a repeated subdivision process of triangles. Starting with an icosahedron inscribed in the sphere, we first find the midpoint of each edge, and then push ∗To whom correspondence should be addressed