Phase behavior of binary blends of diblock copolymers: Progress and opportunities

J Xie, AC Shi - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
The phase behavior of binary blends of diblock copolymers has been examined extensively
in the past decades. Experimental and theoretical studies have demonstrated that mixing …

Design and properties of supramolecular polymer gels

A Noro, M Hayashi, Y Matsushita - Soft Matter, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Supramolecular polymer gels are precisely designed physical gels brought together by
reversible secondary interactions to form three dimensional networks of melt …

Modeling and simulations of polymers: a roadmap

TE Gartner III, A Jayaraman - Macromolecules, 2019 - ACS Publications
Molecular modeling and simulations are invaluable tools for the polymer science and
engineering community. These computational approaches enable predictions and provide …

Process-directed self-assembly of copolymers: Results of and challenges for simulation studies

M Müller - Progress in Polymer Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Process-directed self-assembly refers to processes that reproducibly trap the kinetics of
structure formation that ensues after a sudden change (“quench”) of the thermodynamic …

Polymers with multiple hydrogen-bonded end groups and their blends

KE Feldman, MJ Kade, TFA de Greef, EW Meijer… - …, 2008 - ACS Publications
A new strategy for synthesizing well-defined, chain-end-functionalized polymers containing
multiple hydrogen-bonding (MHB) groups capable of heterodimerization in both solution …

Lewis pairs as highly tunable dynamic cross-links in transient polymer networks

F Vidal, J Gomezcoello, RA Lalancette… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Classical Lewis pairs (LPs) between unhindered electron-poor Lewis acids (LAs) and
electron-rich Lewis bases (LBs) present an overlooked motif with tremendous potential as …

Chemical compatibilization, macro-, and microphase separation of heteroassociative polymers

SPO Danielsen - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
A mean-field equilibrium theory for reversible network formation due to heterotypic pairwise
interactions in mixtures of associative polymers is extended via a weak inhomogeneity …

Ionic compatibilization of polymers

GH Fredrickson, S Xie, J Edmund, ML Le, D Sun… - ACS polymers …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The small specific entropy of mixing of high molecular weight polymers implies that most
blends of dissimilar polymers are immiscible with poor physical properties. Historically, a …

Impact of composition and placement of hydrogen-bonding groups along polymer chains on blend phase behavior: coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation …

A Kulshreshtha, RC Hayward, A Jayaraman - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
In this paper, we study symmetric polymer blends comprised of two polymer chemistries, one
containing hydrogen-bonding (H-bonding) acceptor groups and another containing H …

Gelation mechanism of thermoreversible supramacromolecular ion gels via hydrogen bonding

A Noro, Y Matsushita, TP Lodge - Macromolecules, 2009 - ACS Publications
A series of supramacromolecular ion gels were prepared from blends of a poly (2-
vinylpyridine)-b-poly (ethyl acrylate)-b-poly (2-vinylpyridine)(VEAV) triblock copolymer and a …