Room temperature 3D printing of super-soft and solvent-free elastomers

R Xie, S Mukherjee, AE Levi, VG Reynolds, H Wang… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Super-soft elastomers derived from bottlebrush polymers show promise as advanced
materials for biomimetic tissue and device applications, but current processing strategies are …

Chemical Botany: Bottlebrush Polymers in Materials Science

I Lapkriengkri, KR Albanese, A Rhode… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Molecular architectures known as bottlebrush polymers provide unique opportunities to tune
the structure and properties of soft materials with applications ranging from rubbers to thin …

Theoretical advances in molecular bottlebrushes and comblike (co) polymers: solutions, gels, and self-assembly

EB Zhulina, SS Sheiko, OV Borisov - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We present an overview of state-of-the-art theory of (i) conformational properties of
molecular bottlebrushes in solution,(ii) self-assembly of di-and triblock copolymers …

Hierarchically engineered nanostructures from compositionally anisotropic molecular building blocks

R Liang, Y Xue, X Fu, AN Le, Q Song, Y Qiang, Q Xie… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
The inability to synthesize hierarchical structures with independently tailored nanoscale and
mesoscale features limits the discovery of next-generation multifunctional materials. Here …

Hierarchical self-assembly of ABC-type bottlebrush copolymers

Q Song, Q Dong, R Liang, Y Xue, M Zhong… - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
We have performed dissipative particle dynamics simulations to study the self-assembly of
ABC-type bottlebrush copolymers (BBCPs), one portion of whose backbone is grafted by …

Ordered nanoporous carbons with broadly tunable pore size using bottlebrush block copolymer templates

HF Fei, W Li, A Bhardwaj, S Nuguri… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We report the preparation of ordered porous carbon materials with tailored pore sizes
selected between 16 and 108 nm using bottlebrush block copolymers (BBCPs) as …

Complete photonic band gaps with nonfrustrated ABC bottlebrush block polymers

J Lequieu, T Quah, KT Delaney… - ACS macro …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Bottlebrush block polymers are a promising platform for self-assembled photonic materials,
yet most work has been limited to one-dimensional photonic crystals based on the lamellar …

Soft double-network polydimethylsiloxane: fast healing of fracture toughness

C Chen, HF Fei, JJ Watkins, AJ Crosby - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Solvent-swollen double-network materials containing one dynamic network and one
permanent network offer softness, toughness, and fast-healing functionality. However …

Microphase segregation in the melts of bottlebrush block copolymers

EB Zhulina, SS Sheiko, AV Dobrynin… - Macromolecules, 2020 - ACS Publications
We present an analytical theory of microphase separation in the melt of bottlebrush and
comblike block copolymers in the strong segregation limit. The constructed phase diagram …

Bimodal mesoporous carbon spheres with small and ultra-large pores fabricated using amphiphilic brush block copolymer micelle templates

HF Fei, Y Long, HJ Yu, BM Yavitt, W Fan… - … Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We report the self-assembly of amphiphilic polystyrene-block-poly (ethylene oxide)(PS-b-
PEO) brush block copolymers (BBCPs) into spherical micelles in an ethanol/water mixture …