Defects and defect engineering in Soft Matter

A Jangizehi, F Schmid, P Besenius, K Kremer… - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Soft matter covers a wide range of materials based on linear or branched polymers, gels and
rubbers, amphiphilic (macro) molecules, colloids, and self-assembled structures. These …

[HTML][HTML] Self-contracting oxidized starch/gelatin hydrogel for noninvasive wound closure and wound healing

Q Mao, O Hoffmann, K Yu, F Lu, G Lan, F Dai… - Materials & Design, 2020 - Elsevier
Major challenges in traditional wound closure methods (eg using sutures and skin staplers)
remain inadequately unaddressed; these invasive treatments induce extra puncture …

Increasing N2200 charge transport mobility to improve performance of all polymer solar cells by forming a percolation network structure

Y Yan, Y Liu, Q Zhang, Y Han - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The poor electron transport ability of the polymer acceptor is one of the factors restricting the
performance of all-polymer solar cells. The percolation network of conjugated polymers can …

Stereoselective gridization and polygridization with centrosymmetric molecular packing

D Lin, Y Wei, A Peng, H Zhang, C Zhong, D Lu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The gridarenes, with well-defined edges and vertices, represent versatile nanoscale
building blocks for the installation of frameworks and architectures but suffer from difficulty in …

Photoresponsive chain collapse in a flexo–rigid functional copolymer to modulate the self-healing behaviour

JP Joseph, C Miglani, A Singh, D Gupta, A Pal - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Synthetic systems mimicking the natural self-folding process are attractive to impart multiple
structural control over polymer crosslinking and the subsequent alteration of their …

Quantum Coherence and Its Signatures in Extended Quantum Systems

R Dutta, B Bagchi - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2020 - ACS Publications
Quantum coherence controls almost every aspect of static and dynamic response of a
strongly correlated quantum system, although details of this control have not been …

Non-monotonic dependence of polymer chain dynamics on active crowder size

X Liu, H Jiang, Z Hou - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Configuration dynamics of flexible polymer chains is of ubiquitous importance in many
biological processes. Here, we investigate a polymer chain immersed in a bath of size …

Modulating the optical band gap of small semiconducting two-dimensional materials by conjugated polymers

CK Liao, J Phan, H Martinez-Barron, MA Mahmoud - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
Ultra-high-resolution optical microscopic techniques are used to measure the reflectance
and photoluminescence (PL) spectrum of individual monolayered MoS2 of dimensions …

Global and target analysis of relaxation processes of the collapsed state of P3HT polymer nanoparticles

A Ghosh, S Ghosh, G Ghosh, B Jana… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic–inorganic heterostructure materials have received significant research interest for
designing light harvesting devices because of their efficient charge separation. Here, we …

Effect of thermal annealing on conformation of MEH-PPV chains in polymer matrix: Coexistence of H-and J-Aggregates

S Hu, Y Liao, Y Zhang, X Yan, Z Zhao, W Chen… - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
In diluted solid solution using poly (2-methoxy-5-(2-ethylhexyloxy)-1, 4-phenylenevinylene)(
MEH-PPV) and polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) or polystyrene (PS), both aggregated and …