Amphiphilic block copolymers: their structures, and self-assembly to polymeric micelles and polymersomes as drug delivery vehicles

K Kuperkar, D Patel, LI Atanase, P Bahadur - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers display a multiplicity of nanoscale periodic
patterns proposed as a dominant tool for the 'bottom-up'fabrication of nanomaterials with …

[HTML][HTML] Block copolymer thin films

C Huang, Y Zhu, X Man - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Block copolymer (BCP) represents a special type of polymeric system where each of the
polymer chains is composed of two or more chemically distinct homopolymer blocks that are …

Stabilizing the Frank-Kasper Phases via Binary Blends of AB Diblock Copolymers

M Liu, Y Qiang, W Li, F Qiu, AC Shi - ACS Macro Letters, 2016 - ACS Publications
The emergence of the complex Frank-Kasper phases from binary mixtures of AB diblock
copolymers is studied using the self-consistent field theory. The relative stability of different …

On the phase diagram for microphase separation of diblock copolymers: an approach via a nonlocal Cahn–Hilliard functional

R Choksi, MA Peletier, JF Williams - SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 2009 - SIAM
We consider analytical and numerical aspects of the phase diagram for microphase
separation of diblock copolymers. Our approach is variational and is based upon a density …

Capillary imbibition of polymer mixtures in nanopores

Y Yao, HJ Butt, J Zhou, M Doi, G Floudas - Macromolecules, 2018 - ACS Publications
Capillary imbibition of homogeneous mixtures of entangled poly (ethylene oxide) melts in
nanopores of self-ordered nanoporous alumina follows at 1/2 dependence but contradicts …

A theoretical study of phase behaviors for diblock copolymers in selective solvents

T Suo, D Yan, S Yang, AC Shi - Macromolecules, 2009 - ACS Publications
A self-consistent mean-field theory (SCMFT) study on the phase behaviors of AB-diblock
copolymer solutions is presented. All of the possible thermodynamically stable ordered …

Multiblock elastomers tpeaa and tpeea: Physical structure and properties

J Rokicka, K Wilpiszewska, J Janik, B Schmidt… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
A three series of terpolymers composed of the blocks PTMO (MPTMO= 1000 g/mol) or DLAol
(MDLAol= 540 g/mol), PA12 (MPA12= 2000 g/mol) and xGT (DPxGT= 2) with various …

Perfectly ordered patterns via corner-induced heterogeneous nucleation of self-assembling block copolymers confined in hexagonal potential wells

H Deng, N Xie, W Li, F Qiu, AC Shi - Macromolecules, 2015 - ACS Publications
The ordering dynamics of cylinder-forming diblock copolymer/homopolymer blends confined
in hexagonal potential wells is systematically investigated using time-dependent Ginzburg …

Elastic property of membranes self-assembled from diblock and triblock copolymers

R Xu, A Dehghan, AC Shi, J Zhou - Chemistry and physics of lipids, 2019 - Elsevier
The elastic property of membranes self-assembled from AB diblock and ABA triblock
copolymers, as coarse-grained model of lipids and the bolalipids, are studied using the self …

嵌段共聚物: 物理与化学, 生物和工程的美丽邂逅

周嘉嘉, 史安昌 - 物理, 2023 - wuli.iphy.ac.cn
基于过去三十年的不断探索, 嵌段共聚物已成为研究分子自组装和相关基本现象的理想模型体系
. 定量化理论预测和精确实验观察的携手, 使得对于嵌段共聚物平衡态相行为的理解已达成一致 …