Towards next generation polymer surfaces: Nano-and microlayers of star macromolecules and their design for applications in biology and medicine

B Mendrek, N Oleszko-Torbus, P Teper… - Progress in Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Star polymers with well-defined molecular architectures have been widely studied in the last
few decades. Of particular interest has been processing-structure-property relationships of …

Orthogonal synthesis and modification of polymer materials

A Shahrokhinia, P Biswas… - Journal of Polymer …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this review, we detail the progress throughout the years toward developing truly
orthogonal polymerization mechanisms and modification procedures en route to complex …

Dynamic bottlebrush polymer networks: self-healing in super-soft materials

JL Self, CS Sample, AE Levi, K Li, R Xie… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We introduce a design strategy to expand the range of accessible mechanical properties in
covalent adaptable networks (CANs) using bottlebrush polymer building blocks. Well …

Property-guided generation of complex polymer topologies using variational autoencoders

S Jiang, AB Dieng, MA Webb - npj Computational Materials, 2024 - nature.com
The complexity and diversity of polymer topologies, or chain architectures, present
substantial challenges in predicting and engineering polymer properties. Although machine …

Complex polymer architectures using ring-opening metathesis polymerization: synthesis, applications, and practical considerations

SE Blosch, SJ Scannelli, M Alaboalirat… - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nature shows us that complex molecular architectures lead to unique material properties,
and these observations have driven polymer scientists to synthesize complex architectures …

Miktoarm star polymers: Synthesis and applications

M Liu, JR Blankenship, AE Levi, Q Fu… - Chemistry of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polymers with precisely controlled structure and function are in high demand across a
diverse array of applications spanning the life sciences and nanotechnology. One …

Synthesis and Self-Assembly of ABn Miktoarm Star Polymers

MW Bates, SM Barbon, AE Levi, RM Lewis III… - ACS Macro …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The stability of tetrahedrally close-packed (TCP) phases in block copolymer melts is
predicted by theory to depend on molecular architecture, yet no experimental studies to date …

Modulating Ligand‐Exchange Dynamics on Metal‐Organic Polyhedra for Reversible Sorting and Hybridization of Miktoarm Star Polymers

Y Lai, X He, B Xue, M Li, H Wang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The precise synthesis of miktoarm star polymers (MSPs) remains one of the great
challenges in synthetic chemistry due to the difficulty in locating appropriate structural …

Extreme Deflection of Phase Boundaries and Chain Bridging in A(BA′)n Miktoarm Star Polymers

J Lequieu, T Koeper, KT Delaney… - Macromolecules, 2020 - ACS Publications
In this study, we use self-consistent field theory to demonstrate that the A (BA′) n miktoarm
architecture can strongly deflect order–order phase boundaries to large volume fractions f A …

Branched Polymers: Synthesis and Application

G Shao, A Li, Y Liu, B Yuan, W Zhang - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
Branched polymers have aroused great interest due to their less chain entanglement, high
concentration of chain terminals, good solubility, and low viscosity in melts and solutions. In …