Recent progress on the rheology of giant molecules

Y Liu, XY Yan, QY Guo, H Lei, X Liu, X Li… - Macromolecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Giant molecules are a new class of precise macromolecules whose constructing blocks are
molecular nanoparticles, such as polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS), fullerene …

Rheology and Miscibility of Linear/Hyperbranched Polydimethylsiloxane Blends and an Abnormal Decrease in Their Viscosity

SO Ilyin, VG Kulichikhin - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
Linear polymers with the same monomer units and different molecular weights form miscible
blends considered to be single polymers, but the situation changes if one is hyperbranched …

Tricky but repeatable synthetic approach to branched, multifunctional silsesquioxane dendrimer derivatives

A Mrzygłód, R Januszewski, J Duszczak… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Dendrimers are a wide group of chemical compounds that are still being studied extensively.
New dendrimer cores are sought to improve their physicochemical properties. We present …

Hybrid polycarbosilane-siloxane dendrimers: Synthesis and properties

SA Milenin, EV Selezneva, PA Tikhonov, VG Vasil'ev… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
A series of carbosilane dendrimers of the 4th, 6th, and 7th generations with a terminal
trimethylsilylsiloxane layer was synthesized. Theoretical models of these dendrimers were …

Glassy feature in melts of 3-dimensional architectured polymer blends

Y Zhu, J Luo, Q Zou, X Ouyang, Y Ruan, Y Liu, GX Liu - Polymer, 2022 - Elsevier
dimensional architectured polymers, for example, giant molecules, present distinct dynamics
from chain-like polymers and are coarse-grained as soft-clusters. There is a critical number …

Boron-substituted carboranе-carbosilane dendrimers: Synthesis and properties

EO Minyaylo, AA Anisimov, AV Zaitsev… - Reactive and Functional …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a synthesis of new boron-substituted carborane-carbosilane
dendrimers of the zero (G 0-4 cages), first (G 1-8 cages), third (G 3-32 cages), and fifth (G 5 …

Mechanical relaxation of functionalized carbosilane dendrimer melts

NN Sheveleva, M Dolgushev, E Lähderanta… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Functionalizing the internal structure of classical dendrimers is a new way of tailoring their
properties. Using atomistic molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate the rheological …

New approach to the synthesis of polymethylsilsesquioxane dendrimers

K Boldyrev, E Tatarinova, I Meshkov, N Vasilenko… - Polymer, 2019 - Elsevier
Non-functional derivatives of polymethylsilsesquioxane (PMSSQ) dendrimers of first to fourth
generation were synthesized for the first time using combination of divergent and convergent …

Diameter and elasticity governing the relaxation of soft-nanoparticle melts

J Luo, Y Zhu, Y Ruan, W Wu, X Ouyang, Z Du… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Acting as soft-nanoparticles, series of microgels are microemulsion polymerized and
investigated for their dynamics in the melt state. Each series is kept at the same average …

Dumbbell‐Shaped, Graft and Bottlebrush Polymers with All‐Siloxane Nature: Synthetic Methodology, Thermal, and Rheological Behavior

IK Goncharova, RS Tukhvatshin… - Macromolecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A methodology for synthesizing a wide range of dumbbell‐shaped, graft and bottlebrush
polymers with all‐siloxane nature (without carbosilane linkers) is suggested. These …