Design, preparation, and characterization of lubricating polymer brushes for biomedical applications

X Song, J Man, Y Qiu, J Wang, J Liu, R Li, Y Zhang… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2024 - Elsevier
The lubrication modification of biomedical devices significantly enhances the functionality of
implanted interventional medical devices, thereby providing additional benefits for patients …

DPD modelling of the self-and co-assembly of polymers and polyelectrolytes in aqueous media: Impact on polymer science

K Procházka, Z Limpouchová, M Štěpánek, K Šindelka… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
This review article is addressed to a broad community of polymer scientists. We outline and
analyse the fundamentals of the dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulation method from …

Complexation between oppositely charged polyelectrolytes in dilute solution: Effects of charge asymmetry

S Chen, P Zhang, ZG Wang - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
We use dissipative particle dynamics to study polyelectrolyte complexation in dilute
solutions under conditions of either chain-length or concentration asymmetry between the …

Critical review of microemulsion phase behavior models: benefits, research gaps, industrial challenges, and roadmap

H Saboorian-Jooybari, Z Chen - Journal of Industrial and Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, microemulsions have become increasingly attractive for application
in diverse areas of science and engineering mainly because of their high thermodynamic …

Influence of charges on the behavior of polyelectrolyte microgels confined to oil–water interfaces

MM Schmidt, S Bochenek, AA Gavrilov, II Potemkin… - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
The role of electrostatics on the interfacial properties of polyelectrolyte microgels has been
discussed controversially in the literature. It is not yet clear if, or how, Coulomb interactions …

The conformational phase diagram of charged polymers in the presence of attractive bridging crowders

K Tripathi, H Garg, R Rajesh… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Using extensive molecular dynamics simulations, we obtain the conformational phase
diagram of a charged polymer in the presence of oppositely charged counterions and …

Multiscale modelling of biopolymers

A Scacchi, M Vuorte, M Sammalkorpi - Advances in Physics: X, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This review overviews common biopolymer modelling approaches ranging from chemically
specific to highly coarse-grained techniques, along with their application ranges, strengths …

Molecular design of switchable nanochannels modified by zwitterion polymer chains with dissipative particle dynamics simulation

B Zhu, Z He, G Jiang, F Ning - Polymer, 2024 - Elsevier
Conventional artificial nanochannels have obvious shortcomings in permeability regulation
and environmental friendliness, which challenge their practical applications. Polymer …

Role of ionization in thermal transport of solid polyelectrolytes

X Wei, T Luo - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2019 - ACS Publications
Amorphous polymers are known as thermal insulators, but increasing their thermal
conductivity has not been guided by fully understood physics. In this work, we use molecular …

Electrostatically stabilized microphase separation in blends of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes

AM Rumyantsev, AA Gavrilov, EY Kramarenko - Macromolecules, 2019 - ACS Publications
A possibility of microphase separation in a blend of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes,
being immiscible when uncharged, is studied theoretically and by means of dissipative …