Chitin and chitosan are important support structures for many organisms and are important
renewable macromolecular biomass resources. Structurally, with the removal of acetyl …

Gels are comprised of polymer networks swelled by some interstitial solvent. They are under
wide investigation by material scientists and engineers for their broad applicability in fields …

Since the 1940s, several statistical models have been proposed to understand the
complicated network of vulcanized natural rubber (NR) in a bottom-up way. The single-chain …

Hyaluronic acid (HA), a vital glycosaminoglycan in living organisms, possesses remarkable
mechanical and viscoelastic properties that have garnered significant attention in …

Water is essential in the evolution of life and plays an important role in the structure and
function of the basic substances of life, such as protein and DNA. However, the specific …

Chitosan is one of the most prevalent biomass materials, and its physicochemical and
biological characteristics, such as solubility, crystallinity, flocculation ability, biodegradability …

Discrete mesoscale network models, in which explicitly modeled polymer chains are
replaced by implicit pairwise potentials, are capable of predicting the macroscale …

Controlling the distribution of rings on polymer axles, such as α-cyclodextrin (αCD) on
polyethylene glycol (PEG), is paramount in imparting robust mechanical properties to slide …

We estimate the elasticity of single polymer chains using atomic force microscope (AFM)-
based oscillatory experiments. An accurate estimate of elasticity using AFM is limited by …

Since the invention of atomic force microscopy (AFM), researchers have been able to study
the statistical mechanical properties of individual polymer chains by using a technique …