50th Anniversary Perspective: Block PolymersPure Potential

CM Bates, FS Bates - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
Block copolymers first appeared in the literature with little fanfare in the early 1950s in the
form of large surfactant molecules denoted “Pluronics”, designed by the Wyandotte Chemical …

100th anniversary of macromolecular science viewpoint: Block copolymers with tethered acid groups: Challenges and opportunities

S Kang, MJ Park - ACS Macro Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
… The creation of hierarchically organized ion/dipole arrangements inside the block copolymer
… Several emerging practical applications of the acid-tethered block copolymers have been …

50th Anniversary Perspective: Functional Nanoparticles from the Solution Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers

U Tritschler, S Pearce, J Gwyther, GR Whittell… - …, 2017 - ACS Publications
… linked, macromolecular building blocks, … Perspective we focus on recent developments
concerning the self-assembly of BCPs in solvents that are selective for one or more of the blocks. …

100th anniversary of macromolecular science viewpoint: Block copolymer particles: Tuning shape, interfaces, and morphology

JJ Shin, EJ Kim, KH Ku, YJ Lee, CJ Hawker… - ACS Macro …, 2020 - ACS Publications
… Confined assembly of block copolymers (BCPs) is receiving increasing attention due to the
perspectives for these materials are discussed. Confined self-assembly of block copolymers (…

50th Anniversary Perspective: Polymers with Complex Architectures

G Polymeropoulos, G Zapsas, K Ntetsikas… - …, 2017 - ACS Publications
block copolymers, but differ to the block sequence connected to the branch point), and (c)
chemical structure asymmetry (chemically different arms, generally called miktoarm stars, from …

Charged block copolymers: from fundamentals to electromechanical applications

J Min, D Barpuzary, H Ham, GC Kang… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
… -of-the-art block copolymer electrolytes and suggest future … by studying acid-tethered block
copolymers in which the types … of acid-tethered block copolymers can be systematically varied …

100th anniversary of macromolecular science viewpoint: Opportunities in the physics of sequence-defined polymers

SL Perry, CE Sing - ACS Macro Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
… new perspectives, even as we look to this neighboring discipline for tools and inspiration. …
nontrivial physical properties: block copolymers with sequence-defined blocks and sequence-…

100th Anniversary of macromolecular science viewpoint: opportunities for liquid crystal polymers in nanopatterning and beyond

C Lee, CO Osuji - ACS Macro Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
… set of such cases and offer our perspective on the potential development of these emerging
opportunities. We focus in particular on liquid-crystalline block copolymers (LC BCPs), but …

50th Anniversary Perspective: Putting the Squeeze on Polymers: A Perspective on Polymer Thin Films and Interfaces

TP Russell, Y Chai - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
… of the block copolymer. For interlayer films thicker than L 0 /2, the block copolymer will form
… will be limited by that of the block copolymer or the blocks with each layer, whichever is less. …

CO2-based block copolymers: present and future designs

YY Zhang, GP Wu, DJ Darensbourg - Trends in Chemistry, 2020 - cell.com
… to a broad portfolio of architectures of block copolymers. In the following portion of this … linear
block copolymers. At the end of this report, applications of some linear block copolymers are …