[HTML][HTML] Covalent organic frameworks: Design principles, synthetic strategies, and diverse applications

HR Abuzeid, AFM EL-Mahdy, SW Kuo - Giant, 2021 - Elsevier
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are the emerging type of organic crystalline porous
materials, prepared through reticular chemistry with building blocks featuring light elements …

Hydrogen bonding interactions in polymer/polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane nanomaterials

SW Kuo - Journal of Polymer Research, 2022 - Springer
This Review describes the hydrogen bonding interactions found in polymer/POSS
nanomaterials, as well as the synthesis of mono-, di-, and octa-functional POSS monomers …

Frank–Kasper phases in block polymers

KD Dorfman - Macromolecules, 2021 - ACS Publications
The discovery of the Frank–Kasper σ phase in diblock copolymer and tetrablock terpolymer
melts catalyzed a renewed interest over the past decade in understanding particle-forming …

Self-assembled soft alloy with Frank–Kasper phases beyond metals

XY Liu, XY Yan, Y Liu, H Qu, Y Wang, J Wang… - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Soft building blocks, such as micelles, cells or soap bubbles, tend to adopt near-spherical
geometry when densely packed together. As a result, their packing structures do not extend …

Expanding quasiperiodicity in soft matter: Supramolecular decagonal quasicrystals by binary giant molecule blends

Y Liu, T Liu, XY Yan, QY Guo, H Lei… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The quasiperiodic structures in metal alloys have been known to depend on the existence of
icosahedral order in the melt. Among different phases observed in intermetallics, decagonal …

[HTML][HTML] Formation of complex spherical packing phases in diblock copolymer/homopolymer blends

J Xie, AC Shi - Giant, 2021 - Elsevier
The formation and relative stability of spherical packing phases in binary blends composed
of AB-diblock copolymers and A-homopolymers are systematically studied using the self …

Precisely encoding geometric features into discrete linear polymer chains for robust structural engineering

D Zhou, M Xu, Z Ma, Z Gan, R Tan… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Molecular shape is an essential parameter that regulates the self-organization and
recognition process, which has not yet been well appreciated and exploited in block …

Complex phase behavior in particle-forming AB/AB′ diblock copolymer blends with variable core block lengths

AP Lindsay, GK Cheong, AJ Peterson… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade, a wealth of complexity has been reported in the packing of
compositionally asymmetric, particle-forming diblock copolymer melts, beginning with the …

Ordered mesoporous silica pyrolyzed from single-source self-assembled organic–inorganic giant surfactants

QY Guo, XY Yan, W Zhang, XH Li, Y Xu… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report the preparation of hexagonal mesoporous silica from single-source giant
surfactants constructed via dihydroxyl-functionlized polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane …

Discrete Linear–Branched Block Copolymer with Broken Architectural Symmetry

Z Ma, D Zhou, M Xu, Z Gan, T Zheng, S Wang… - …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Rationally introducing chain length heterogeneity, such as binary blending, is a robust
approach to regulate phase behavior of block copolymers. This work designed a library of …