Soft matter covers a wide range of materials based on linear or branched polymers, gels and
rubbers, amphiphilic (macro) molecules, colloids, and self-assembled structures. These …

Over the past few years, the concurrent (1) development of polymer synthesis and (2)
introduction of new mathematical models for polymer dynamics have evolved the classical …

Aiming at the creation of polymers with attractive dynamic properties, herein, rotaxane-
branched dendronized polymers (DPs) with rotaxane-branched dendrons attached onto the …

This study investigated the potential of bacterial-mediated polyethylene (PE) degradation in
a two-phase microcosm experiment. During phase I, naturally weathered PE films were …

New polyphenylene-based dendronized polymers (denpols), exhibiting extended and rigid
conformations, were prepared using ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP). Their …

High-shear rate rotational rheometry provides access to the fast nonlinear dynamics of soft
materials and, particularly, their shear stress (exhibiting shear thinning and/or thickening) as …

Application of ionomers is often disturbed by their brittleness originating from limited
stretchability of the network strands physically cross-linked by the ionic sites therein. Thus …

It is commonly reported that the limited availability of material types is a major barrier to
widespread adoption for polymer laser powder bed fusion (PBF/L) additive manufacturing …

Three-dimensional giant molecular clusters, OPOSS16 and OPOSS24, have been designed
and precisely synthesized. They have 16 or 24 octyl polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane …

Due to their unique physical and chemical features, dendronized polymers (DPs) have
received increasing attention in various fields such as hierarchically structured materials …