Abstract The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) advanced a new paradigm for materials
discovery and design, namely that the pace of new materials deployment could be …

Marine mussels are able to firmly affix on various wet surfaces by the overproduction of
special mussel foot proteins (mfps). Abundant fundamental studies have been conducted to …

Polyelectrolyte brushes provide wear protection and lubrication in many technical, medical,
physiological, and biological applications. Wear resistance and low friction are attributed to …

Polymer materials have been widely used in industrial, agricultural, engineering, medical,
electronic, and biological fields because of their excellent and diverse properties (eg …

In this study, we report lubrication properties of physisorbed zwitterionic bottlebrush
polymers in the presence of multivalent ions using the surface force apparatus. Unlike …

In this work, we carefully designed and synthesized a series of novel polyelectrolyte-
functionalized carbon dots (CDs-PEI-X) by a facile and reversible phase transfer method …

Ion valency has strong effects on the conformation of polyelectrolyte brushes, which is
important for designing the adhesive and lubrication properties of the surface. But a unified …

The development of shampoo and cleansing formulations in cosmetics is at a crossroads
due to consumer demands for better performing, more natural products and also the strong …

We employ an all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulation framework to unravel water
microstructure and ion properties for cationic [poly (2-(methacryloyloxy) ethyl) …

Electrostatic interaction and molecular excluded-volume effects are responsible for a
plethora of nonintuitive phenomena in soft-matter systems, including local charge inversion …