AIE-active macromolecules: Designs, performances, and applications

F Zhang, H Xie, B Guo, C Zhu, J Xu - Polymer Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Macromolecules with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristics as emerging soft
luminescent materials have gained increasing attention owing to their facile formulation …

Fabrication of liquid-infused textured surfaces (LITS): The effect of surface textures on anti-icing properties and durability

S Heydarian, K Maghsoudi, R Jafari, H Gauthier… - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
Icephobic surfaces offer an effective solution to protect the infrastructures subjected to harsh
cold-weather environment and increase their efficiency. Inspired by the Nepenthes pitcher …

Sustainable micro and nano additives for controlling the migration of a biobased plasticizer from PLA-based flexible films

L Aliotta, A Vannozzi, L Panariello, V Gigante… - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Plasticized poly (lactic acid)(PLA)/poly (butylene succinate)(PBS) blend-based films
containing chitin nanofibrils (CN) and calcium carbonate were prepared by extrusion and …

Dynamic heterogeneity, cooperative motion, and Johari–Goldstein -relaxation in a metallic glass-forming material exhibiting a fragile-to-strong transition

H Zhang, X Wang, HB Yu, JF Douglas - The European Physical Journal E, 2021 - Springer
Abstract We investigate the Johari–Goldstein (JG) β β-relaxation process in a model metallic
glass-forming (GF) material (Al _ 90 Sm _ 10 Al 90 Sm 10), previously studied extensively by …

[HTML][HTML] A comparative study of thermodynamic, conformational, and structural properties of bottlebrush with star and ring polymer melts

A Chremos, JF Douglas - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Thermodynamic, conformational, and structural properties of bottlebrush polymer melts are
investigated with molecular dynamics simulations and compared to linear, regular star, and …

Numerical investigation of carbonate acidizing with gelled acid using a coupled thermal–hydrologic–chemical model

P Liu, J Li, S Sun, J Yao, K Zhang - International Journal of Thermal …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, an experiment-based rheological model that accounts for the influence of
polymer concentration, shear-thinning behavior, and temperature variation on the in-situ …

Predicting the mobility increase of coarse-grained polymer models from excess entropy differences

GG Rondina, MC Böhm… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We cast the acceleration of the dynamics of coarse-grained polymer models, or, conversely,
the decrease in monomer friction in terms of excess entropy differences between different …

Influence of network defects on the conformational structure of nanogel particles: From “closed compact” to “open fractal” nanogel particles

A Chremos, F Horkay, JF Douglas - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We propose an approach to generate a wide range of randomly branched polymeric
structures to gain general insights into how polymer topology encodes a configurational …

[HTML][HTML] Communication: A comparison between the solution properties of knotted ring and star polymers

F Vargas-Lara, BA Pazmiño Betancourt… - The Journal of chemical …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We computationally investigate the good solvent solution properties of knotted ring and star
polymers by combining molecular dynamics (MD) simulation and path-integral calculations …

Impact of star polyacid branching on polymer diffusion within multilayer films

A Aliakseyeu, JF Ankner, SA Sukhishvili - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
A series of linear and star poly (acrylic acids)(L PAA and star PAAs) were synthesized to
explore the effect of molecular architecture on the stratification and polymer dynamics of …