Recent progress in non-photolithographic patterning of polymer thin films

M Qiu, W Du, S Zhou, P Cai, Y Luo, X Wang… - Progress in Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Patterned polymer thin films are essential components in many devices and applications
owing to the multi-functionality, flexibility, lightweight and cost-efficiency. Unfortunately …

Designing high χ copolymer materials for nanotechnology applications: A systematic bulk vs. thin films approach

PP Angelopoulou, I Moutsios, GM Manesi… - Progress in Polymer …, 2022 - Elsevier
This review article discusses the origins of self-assembly behavior of linear and non-linear
block co-and terpolymers and their application towards the fabrication of high-resolution …

Tailored silyl ether monomers enable backbone-degradable polynorbornene-based linear, bottlebrush and star copolymers through ROMP

P Shieh, HVT Nguyen, JA Johnson - Nature chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
Ring-opening metathesis polymerization of norbornene-based (macro) monomers is a
powerful approach for the synthesis of macromolecules with diverse compositions and …

Phase Behavior and Conformational Asymmetry near the Comb-to-Bottlebrush Transition in Linear-Brush Block Copolymers

RJ Sánchez-Leija, JA Mysona, JJ de Pablo… - …, 2024 - ACS Publications
This study explores how conformational asymmetry influences the bulk phase behavior of
linear-brush block copolymers. We synthesized 60 diblock copolymers composed of poly …

Miktoarm stars via grafting-through copolymerization: Self-assembly and the star-to-bottlebrush transition

AE Levi, J Lequieu, JD Horne, MW Bates… - …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The grafting-through copolymerization of two distinct macromonomers via ring-opening
metathesis polymerization is typically used to form statistical or diblock bottlebrush polymers …

A review of computational studies of bottlebrush polymers

E Mohammadi, SY Joshi, SA Deshmukh - Computational Materials Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Bottlebrush polymers (BBPs) are a class of grafted polymers, which have attracted much
attention due to their wide range of novel applications. The properties of these grafted …

[HTML][HTML] Grubbs' and Schrock's catalysts, ring opening metathesis polymerization and molecular brushes—synthesis, characterization, properties and applications

I Choinopoulos - Polymers, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this review, molecular brushes and other macromolecular architectures bearing a
bottlebrush segment where the main chain is synthesized by ring opening metathesis …

Molecular dynamics simulation and PRISM theory study of assembly in solutions of amphiphilic bottlebrush block copolymers

I Lyubimov, MG Wessels, A Jayaraman - Macromolecules, 2018 - ACS Publications
We use a coarse-grained model with both Polymer Reference Interaction Site Model
(PRISM) theory and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to study self-assembly of …

Solvent-assisted self-assembly of block copolymer thin films

P Pula, A Leniart, PW Majewski - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Solvent-assisted block copolymer self-assembly is a compelling method for processing and
advancing practical applications of these materials due to the exceptional level of the control …

Visualizing the orientation of single polymers induced by spin-coating

JM Chan, M Wang - Nano letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
The orientation of chains within polymeric materials influences their electrical, mechanical,
and thermal properties. While many techniques can infer the orientation distribution of a bulk …