Over the past three decades, the combination of inorganic-nanoparticles and organic-
polymers has led to a wide variety of advanced materials, including polymer …

Macroscopic properties of polymer nanocomposites depend on the microscopic composite
morphology of the constituent nanoparticles and polymer matrix. One way to control the …

Solid-state electrolytes are an attractive alternative to conventional liquid electrolytes in
lithium batteries because of their intrinsic safety features and superior mechanical …

Thermodynamic, conformational, and structural properties of bottlebrush polymer melts are
investigated with molecular dynamics simulations and compared to linear, regular star, and …

Within the general field of polymer grafted or “hairy” nanoparticles, nanoscale ionic materials
(NIMs), consisting of a soft polymeric canopy bound to a well-defined nanoparticle core by …

In this contribution, we develop a coarse-graining methodology for map** specific block
copolymer systems to bead-spring particle-based models. We map the constituent Kuhn …

We investigate the nature of long-range density fluctuations in melts of model “soft”
polymers, specifically stars and bottlebrushes, over a wide temperature range by molecular …

Ultrathin films containing polymer-grafted nanoparticles (PGNs) show promise for use in
hybrid electronics and high energy density materials. In this work, we use a coarse-grained …

The properties of materials largely reflect the degree and character of the localization of the
molecules comprising them so that the study and characterization of particle localization has …

A molecular model of silica nanoparticles grafted with poly (ethylene oxide) oligomers has
been developed for predicting the transport properties of nanoparticle organic-hybrid …