Recent progress in the science of complex coacervation

CE Sing, SL Perry - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Complex coacervation is an associative, liquid–liquid phase separation that can occur in
solutions of oppositely-charged macromolecular species, such as proteins, polymers, and …

Materials design of highly branched bottlebrush polymers at the intersection of modeling, synthesis, processing, and characterization

T Pan, S Dutta, Y Kamble, BB Patel… - Chemistry of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Highly branched “bottlebrush” polymers are a class of macromolecules characterized by
side chains that are densely grafted from a backbone that is typically linear. Their unique …

Coarse-grained dynamics simulation in polymer systems: From structures to material properties

H Gao, R Shi, Y Zhu, H Qian, Z Lu - Chemical Research in Chinese …, 2022 - Springer
Polymers are widely used in our daily life and industry because of their intrinsic
characteristics, such as multi-functionality, low cost, light mass, ease of processability, and …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamics and rheology of ring-linear blend semidilute solutions in extensional flow: Single molecule experiments

Y Zhou, CD Young, M Lee, S Banik, D Kong… - Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Ring polymers exhibit unique flow properties due to their closed chain topology. Despite
recent progress, we have not yet achieved a full understanding of the nonequilibrium flow …

Nonmonotonic dependence of comb polymer relaxation on branch density in semidilute solutions of linear polymers

SF Patel, CD Young, CE Sing, CM Schroeder - Physical Review Fluids, 2020 - APS
The dynamics of branched polymers in semidilute solutions are thought to depend on a
coupling between polymer chain architecture, intermolecular excluded volume interactions …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamics and rheology of ring-linear blend semidilute solutions in extensional flow. Part I: Modeling and molecular simulations

CD Young, Y Zhou, CM Schroeder, CE Sing - Journal of Rheology, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We use Brownian dynamics (BD) simulations and single molecule experiments to
investigate the influence of topological constraints and hydrodynamic interactions on the …

Investigating the transition between polymer melts and solutions in nonlinear elongational flow

A André, T Shahid, F Oosterlinck, C Clasen… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The Doi–Edwards tube model, coupled with relaxation mechanisms, such as reptation,
contour length fluctuation, and constraint release, allows us to quantitatively predict the …

[HTML][HTML] Simultaneous measurement of rheological properties in a microfluidic rheometer

F Del Giudice - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Microfluidic rheometry is considered to be a potential alternative to conventional rheometry
for the rheological characterization of viscoelastic solutions having relatively low viscoelastic …

Effect of hydrodynamic interactions and flow on charge transport in redox-active polymer solutions

DW Walker, CE Sing - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2024 - ACS Publications
Redox-active polymers (RAPs) are a subclass of polyelectrolytes that can store charge and
undergo redox self-exchange reactions. RAPs are of great interest in the field of redox flow …

Statistical Dynamics of Flow-Driven Globular Polymers

BJ Cherayil - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2022 - ACS Publications
The response of collapsed polymers to the effects of linear mixed flow is studied theoretically
in this paper using a model of a self-interacting finitely extensible Gaussian chain that …