Antifouling nanocomposite polymer coatings for marine applications: A review on experiments, mechanisms, and theoretical studies

S Pourhashem, A Seif, F Saba, EG Nezhad, X Ji… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Marine fouling is a worldwide challenge with huge damages on industrial structures, side
effects on economics of industries, and environmental and safety-related hazards. Different …

Recent developments in antimicrobial and antifouling coatings to reduce or prevent contamination and cross‐contamination of food contact surfaces by bacteria

W DeFlorio, S Liu, AR White, TM Taylor… - … Reviews in Food …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Illness as the result of ingesting bacterially contaminated foodstuffs represents a significant
annual loss of human quality of life and economic impact globally. Significant research …

Theory and simulation studies of effective interactions, phase behavior and morphology in polymer nanocomposites

V Ganesan, A Jayaraman - Soft Matter, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymer nanocomposites are a class of materials that consist of a polymer matrix filled with
inorganic/organic nanoscale additives that enhance the inherent macroscopic (mechanical …

Unveiling the Role of Electrostatic Forces on Attraction between Opposing Polyelectrolyte Brushes

D Prusty, A Gallegos, J Wu - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
Electrostatic interaction and molecular excluded-volume effects are responsible for a
plethora of nonintuitive phenomena in soft-matter systems, including local charge inversion …

Dynamic poly (dimethylsiloxane) brush coating shows even better antiscaling capability than the low-surface-energy fluorocarbon counterpart

Y Chen, X Yu, L Chen, S Liu, X Xu, S Zhao… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Scale formation is a significant problem in a wide range of industries, including water
treatment, food processing, power plants, and oilfield production. While surface modification …

A novel prewetting behavior of water adsorbed on solid surfaces modified with tethered chains resulting from a density functional theory

O Pizio, S Sokołowski - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2022 - Elsevier
The density functional approach for classical associating fluids is used to explore wetting
phase diagrams for model systems consisting of water and graphite-like solid surfaces …

Equilibrium conformations and surface charge regulation of spherical polymer brushes in stretched regimes

A Bakhshandeh, M Segala, T Escobar Colla - Macromolecules, 2021 - ACS Publications
In the present work, we study the equilibrium conformations of linear polyelectrolytes
tethered onto a spherical, oppositely charged core in equilibrium with an ionic reservoir of …

Mesoscale modeling of block copolymer nanocomposites

KM Langner, GJA Sevink - Soft Matter, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanoadditives alter the properties of pure block copolymers, through an interplay of
entropic, enthalpic and kinetic factors at competing length and time scales. A fundamental …

Thermodynamic Perturbation Theory for Charged Branched Polymers

L Qing, X Wang, S Li, J Zhang… - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Classical density functional theory (DFT) provides a versatile framework to study the
polymers with complex topological structure. Generally, a classical DFT describes the …

Nucleation in polymers and soft matter

X Xu, CL Ting, I Kusaka, ZG Wang - Annual review of physical …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Nucleation is a ubiquitous phenomenon in many physical, chemical, and biological
processes. In this review, we describe recent progress on the theoretical study of nucleation …