Confined glassy properties of polymer nanoparticles

C Zhang, Y Guo, RD Priestley - Journal of Polymer Science Part …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
For nearly the past two decades, significant effort has been devoted to pursuing an
understanding of the glass transition temperature and associated dynamics of polymers …

New Insights from Nonequilibrium Kinetics Studies on Highly Polar S-Methoxy-PC Infiltrated into Pores

M Tarnacka, E Kamińska, M Paluch… - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Herein, the annealing of highly polar (S)-(−)-4-methoxymethyl-1, 3-dioxolan-2-one (S-
methoxy-PC) within alumina and silica porous membranes characterized by different pore …

Extended wear therapeutic contact lens fabricated from timolol imprinted carboxymethyl chitosan-g-hydroxy ethyl methacrylate-g-poly acrylamide as a onetime …

TS Anirudhan, AS Nair, J Parvathy - European Journal of Pharmaceutics …, 2016 - Elsevier
An extended wear therapeutic contact lens (TCL) for the sustained delivery of timolol
maleate (TML) was fabricated based on molecular imprinting technique. The designed TCL …

Structural Relaxation of Polymer Nanospheres under Soft and Hard Confinement: Isobaric versus Isochoric Conditions

Y Guo, C Zhang, C Lai, RD Priestley, M D'Acunzi… - Acs Nano, 2011 - ACS Publications
We have measured the glassy-state structural relaxation of aqueous suspended polystyrene
(PS) nanoparticles (the case of soft confinement) and the corresponding silica-capped PS …

Adsorption and self-assembly of linear polymers on surfaces: a computer simulation study

A Chremos, E Glynos, V Koutsos, PJ Camp - Soft Matter, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
The adsorption and self-assembly of linear polymers on smooth surfaces are studied using
coarse-grained, bead-spring molecular models and Langevin dynamics computer …

Geometry-dependent insertion forces on particles in swollen polymer brushes

S de Beer, LIS Mensink, BD Kieviet - Macromolecules, 2016 - ACS Publications
We present molecular dynamics simulations in which we determine the forces on cubes,
rods, discs, and spheres that are included in polymer brushes at different distances from the …

Experimental evidence on the effect of substrate roughness on segmental dynamics of confined polymer films

AB Unni, K Chat, DM Duarte, M Wojtyniak… - Polymer, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding the properties of thin films remains an unresolved issue even after decades
of scientific research. In this article, we investigate the role of surface roughness, one of the …

Mechanical behavior of highly cross-linked polymer networks and its links to microscopic structure

D Mukherji, CF Abrams - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2009 - APS
Highly cross-linked polymer (HCP) networks are becoming increasingly important as high-
performance adhesives and multifunctional composite materials. Because of their cross …

Scaling laws of single polymer dynamics near attractive surfaces

D Mukherji, G Bartels, MH Müser - Physical review letters, 2008 - APS
We present a molecular dynamics study of a generic model for single polymer diffusion on
surfaces, which have variable atomic-scale corrugation but no artificial, impenetrable …

Structure and dynamics of polymer melt confined between two solid surfaces: A molecular dynamics study

J Sarabadani, A Milchev, TA Vilgis - The Journal of chemical physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Using large scale molecular dynamics simulations we investigate the static and dynamic
properties of a linear polymer melt confined between two solid surfaces. One of the walls is …