Bottlebrush polymers: From controlled synthesis, self-assembly, properties to applications

Z Li, M Tang, S Liang, M Zhang, GM Biesold… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Bottlebrush polymers (BBPs) have emerged as intriguing class of materials for an array of
applications, including supersoft elastomers, organic optoelectronics, templates for crafting …

A review of advancements in coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations

SY Joshi, SA Deshmukh - Molecular Simulation, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Over the last few years, coarse-grained molecular dynamics has emerged as a way to model
large and complex systems in an efficient and inexpensive manner due to its lowered …

Materials design of highly branched bottlebrush polymers at the intersection of modeling, synthesis, processing, and characterization

T Pan, S Dutta, Y Kamble, BB Patel… - Chemistry of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Highly branched “bottlebrush” polymers are a class of macromolecules characterized by
side chains that are densely grafted from a backbone that is typically linear. Their unique …

Thermoresponsive Polymers under Pressure with a Focus on Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM)

CM Papadakis, BJ Niebuur, A Schulte - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
Pressure is a key variable in the phase behavior of responsive polymers, both for
applications and from a fundamental point of view. In this feature article, we review recent …

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 …

Relationship between graft density and the dilute solution structure of bottlebrush polymers: an inter-chemistry comparison and scaling analysis

DF Sunday, AB Burns, TB Martin, AB Chang… - …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Bottlebrush polymers are an important class of materials which consist of side chains grafted
along a linear backbone. There has been a significant effort to understand structure …

Conformation of a comb-like chain free in solution and confined in a nanochannel: from linear to bottlebrush structure

Z Tang, X Pan, H Zhou, L Li, M Ding - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
We study the conformation of a comb-like polymer chain in dilute solution from being in a
free state to being confined in a nanochannel by using Brownian dynamics simulations. In …

Molecular bottlebrushes as emerging nanocarriers: Material design and biomedical application

Z Zhang, Z Li, Y Shi, Y Chen - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
As a unique unimolecular nanoobject, molecular bottlebrushes (MBBs) have attracted great
interest from researchers in nanocarriers attributed to their defined structure, size, and …

Concentration-Driven Self-Assembly of PS-b-PLA Bottlebrush Diblock Copolymers in Solution

BB Patel, T Pan, Y Chang, DJ Walsh, JJ Kwok… - ACS Polymers …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Bottlebrush polymers are a class of semiflexible, hierarchical macromolecules with unique
potential for shape-, architecture-, and composition-based structure–property design. It is …

[HTML][HTML] Interaction potential for coarse-grained models of bottlebrush polymers

T Pan, S Dutta, CE Sing - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Bottlebrush polymers are a class of highly branched macromolecules that show promise for
applications such as self-assembled photonic materials and tunable elastomers. However …