Conformational transitions in thermo-sensitive polymers are critical in determining their
functional properties. The atomistic origin of polymer collapse at the lower critical solution …

In this Review, we present a critical analysis of various applications of the Flory-type theories
to a theoretical description of the conformational behavior of single polymer chains in dilute …

A study was made of the anti‐polyelectrolyte effect of a model polyzwitterion at the single‐
chain level and from the point of view of comparison with inorganic salts and organic inner …

Despite the fact that the observation of cononsolvency was reported as early as four
decades ago, its phase-transition mechanism is still under debate. In this work, we provided …

If two good solvents become poor for a polymer when mixed, the solvent pair is called a co-
nonsolvent pair for the polymer. The sharp depression of the LCST by the co-nonsolvency in …

Gold nanoparticles are used as a luminescent contrast agent to study size-dependent
dynamics in polymer matrix. The experiments measured the diffusion coefficient of particles …

Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) has been adopted to investigate the
conformational transition of poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAM) single chains with …

On the basis of a minimal lattice model, we apply the Wang–Landau Monte Carlo (MC)
algorithm and a Flory-type mean-field theory to investigate the conformation of a …

We have discovered unusual behavior of polymer coils in a binary solvent (nitroethane+
isooctane) near the critical temperature of demixing. The exceptionally close refractive …

All-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are employed to compare the lower critical
solution temperature (LCST) behaviors of poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAM) and …