Recent advances in thermoplastic elastomers from living polymerizations: Macromolecular architectures and supramolecular chemistry

W Wang, W Lu, A Goodwin, H Wang, P Yin… - Progress in polymer …, 2019 - Elsevier
Thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) have found use in a wide range of applications, such as
adhesives, elastomers, coatings, fibers, and in additive manufacturing techniques such as …

Confined crystallization of polymeric materials

RM Michell, AJ Müller - Progress in Polymer Science, 2016 - Elsevier
The interest in confined crystallization has greatly increased with the development and
progress of nanotechnology applications. Polymeric confined crystallization has been …

50th Anniversary Perspective: Block PolymersPure Potential

CM Bates, FS Bates - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
Block polymers have undergone extraordinary evolution since their inception more than 60
years ago, maturing from simple surfactants to an expansive class of macromolecules …

50th Anniversary Perspective: Polymers with Complex Architectures

G Polymeropoulos, G Zapsas, K Ntetsikas… - …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The scope of this Perspective is to highlight innovative contributions in the synthesis of well-
defined complex macromolecular architectures and to emphasize the importance of these …

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 …

Block copolymers—designer soft materials

FS Bates, GH Fredrickson - Physics today, 1999 - pubs.aip.org
B lock copolymers are all around us, found in such products as upholstery foam, adhesive
tape and asphalt additives. This class of macromolecules is produced by joining two or more …

Effect of architecture on the phase behavior of AB-type block copolymer melts

MW Matsen - Macromolecules, 2012 - ACS Publications
Equilibrium phase diagrams are calculated for a selection of two-component block
copolymer architectures using self-consistent field theory (SCFT). The topology of the phase …

Polymers with complex architecture by living anionic polymerization

N Hadjichristidis, M Pitsikalis, S Pispas… - Chemical …, 2001 - ACS Publications
Immediately after the discovery of the living character1 of anionic polymerization, 2 polymer
chemists started synthesizing well-defined linear homopolymers and diblock copolymers …

Stability of the A15 phase in diblock copolymer melts

MW Bates, J Lequieu, SM Barbon… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The self-assembly of block polymers into well-ordered nanostructures underpins their utility
across fundamental and applied polymer science, yet only a handful of equilibrium …

σ phase formed in conformationally asymmetric AB-type block copolymers

N Xie, W Li, F Qiu, AC Shi - Acs Macro Letters, 2014 - ACS Publications
The stability of various spherical phases formed in conformationally asymmetric AB diblock
and architecture asymmetric AB m miktoarm block copolymers is investigated using self …