Properly addressing the global issue of unsustainable plastic waste generation and
accumulation will require a confluence of technological breakthroughs on various fronts …

Biomacromolecules rely on the precise placement of monomers to encode information for
structure, function, and physiology. Efforts to emulate this complexity via the synthetic control …

Phase separation of intrinsically disordered proteins is important for the formation of
membraneless organelles or biomolecular condensates, which play key roles in the …

Gradient copolymers are members of a unique class of copolymer in which the monomer
composition changes gradually from one end of the polymer chain to the other. In general …

Polymer science has been driven by ever-increasing molecular complexity, as polymer
synthesis expands an already-vast palette of chemical and architectural parameter space …

Charged polymers are ubiquitous in biological systems because electrostatic interactions
can drive complicated structure formation and respond to environmental parameters such as …

We apply a recently developed unsupervised machine learning scheme for local
environments [Reinhart, Comput. Mater. Sci., 2021, 196, 110511] to characterize large …

Phase separation can be driven by the association of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes in
solution, a process known as complex coacervation. This can manifest as macrophase …

Salt-doped diblock copolymers with microphase-separated domains of both an ion
conductive and a mechanically strong polymer have been extensively studied due to their …

Accurate prediction of block polymer properties as a function of monomer sequence is
necessary for better material development. The number of permutations of chemistry and …