Fluorination in advanced battery design

Y Wang, Z Wu, FM Azad, Y Zhu, L Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The increasing demand for high-performance rechargeable batteries, particularly in energy
storage applications such as electric vehicles, has driven the development of advanced …

Designing high χ copolymer materials for nanotechnology applications: A systematic bulk vs. thin films approach

PP Angelopoulou, I Moutsios, GM Manesi… - Progress in Polymer …, 2022 - Elsevier
This review article discusses the origins of self-assembly behavior of linear and non-linear
block co-and terpolymers and their application towards the fabrication of high-resolution …

Ultra-stable all-solid-state sodium metal batteries enabled by perfluoropolyether-based electrolytes

X Wang, C Zhang, M Sawczyk, J Sun, Q Yuan… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Rechargeable batteries paired with sodium metal anodes are considered to be one of the
most promising high-energy and low-cost energy-storage systems. However, the use of …

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 …

Designing nanostructured 3D printed materials by controlling macromolecular architecture

X Shi, VA Bobrin, Y Yao, J Zhang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nanostructured polymeric materials play important roles in many advanced applications,
however, controlling the morphologies of polymeric thermosets remains a challenge. This …

[HTML][HTML] Formation of complex spherical packing phases in diblock copolymer/homopolymer blends

J Xie, AC Shi - Giant, 2021 - Elsevier
The formation and relative stability of spherical packing phases in binary blends composed
of AB-diblock copolymers and A-homopolymers are systematically studied using the self …

Emergence of hexagonally close-packed spheres in linear block copolymer melts

C Zhang, DL Vigil, D Sun, MW Bates… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The hexagonally close-packed (HCP) sphere phase is predicted to be stable across a
narrow region of linear block copolymer phase space, but the small free energy difference …

Efficient creation and morphological analysis of ABC triblock terpolymer libraries

EA Murphy, YQ Chen, K Albanese… - …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Multiblock copolymers with increasingly complex block sequences─ for example, triblock
terpolymers─ offer unique opportunities to create nanostructured materials, but this …

Direct-ink-write cross-linkable bottlebrush block copolymers for on-the-fly control of structural color

S Jeon, YL Kamble, H Kang, J Shi… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Additive manufacturing capable of controlling and dynamically modulating structures down
to the nanoscopic scale remains challenging. By marrying additive manufacturing with self …

Tuning diblock copolymer particle packing symmetry with variable molecular weight core-homopolymers

AJ Mueller, AP Lindsay, A Jayaraman… - …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We report the sensitivity of diblock copolymer particle packing symmetry to the ratio α= N
homo/N core, where N homo and N core are the respective homopolymer and core-block …