Mussel underwater adhesion is a model phenomenon important for the understanding of
broader biological adhesion and the development of biomimetic wet adhesives. The …

Since their inception, hydrogels have gained popularity among multiple fields, most
significantly in biomedical research and industry. Due to their resemblance to biological …

The lubrication behavior of the hydrated biopolymers that constitute tissues in organisms
differs from that outlined by the classical Stribeck curve, and studying hydrogel lubrication is …

While the phase separation of binary mixtures of chemically different polymer-grafted
nanoparticles (PGNPs) is observed to superficially resemble conventional polymer blends …

Co-nonsolvency occurs if a mixture of two good solvents causes the collapse or demixing of
polymers into a polymer-rich phase in a certain range of compositions of these two solvents …

Surfaces coated with polymer brushes in a good solvent are known to exhibit excellent
tribological properties. We have performed coarse-grained equilibrium and nonequilibrium …

Cosolvents play an integral role in polymer solubility, with myriad applications in drug
delivery and energy storage. In particular, dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) has received …

An enantiopair of rigid rod-like helical polysilanes (PSi-S and PSi-R) as a photoscissible
scaffold enabled the production of circularly polarised luminescence (CPL)-and circular …

The effect of nanoscale surface roughness on the lubrication properties of a polymer brush
in a good solvent has been investigated. Friction and adhesion forces were measured by …

We have performed coarse-grained molecular-dynamics simulations on both flexible and
semiflexible multi-bead-spring model polymer brushes in the presence of explicit solvent …