Cononsolvency is an intriguing phenomenon where a polymer collapses in a mixture of
good solvents. This cosolvent-induced modulation of the polymer solubility has been …

Controlling (bio-) adhesion and friction is essential in many bio-medical and industrial
applications. Such control can be achieved using stimulus responsive polymers. Coatings …

Polymer brush surfaces that alter their physical properties in response to chemical stimuli
have the capacity to be used as new surface‐based sensing materials. For such surfaces …

In the pressent work, nanosized poly (N-isopropyl acrylamide)(PNIPAM) microgels were
prepared and used as lubricant additives in bovine calf serum (BCS) for titanium alloy/ultra …

Polymer brushes, consisting of densely end-tethered polymers to a surface, can exhibit rapid
and sharp conformational transitions due to specific stimuli, which offer intriguing …

The swelling and solvation of 100–200 nm thin films of a diblock copolymer consisting of a
short poly (methyl methacrylate)(PMMA) block and a long poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) …

We study the properties of a polymer brush exposed to a mixture of two solvents where one
component, called the co-nonsolvent (CNS), has a stronger preference with respect to the …

Stimuli‐responsive structural coloration allows the color change of soft substrates in
response to environmental stimuli such as heat, humidity, and solvents. Such color …

Co-nonsolvency occurs if a mixture of two good solvents causes the collapse or demixing of
polymers into a polymer-rich phase in a certain range of compositions of these two solvents …

Understanding atomic friction within a liquid environment is crucial for engineering friction
mechanisms and characterizing surfaces. It has been suggested that the lattice resolution of …