Molecular brushes are composed of a flexible backbone and densely grafted side chains.
The conformation of molecular brushes is governed by side chains separated by a distance …

The glycocalyx coating the outside of most cells is a polymer meshwork comprising proteins
and complex sugar chains called glycans. From a physical perspective, the glycocalyx has …

Bottlebrushes are fascinating macromolecules that display an intriguing combination of
molecular and particulate features having vital implications in both living and synthetic …

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 …

Bottlebrush networks (BBNs) are an exciting new class of materials with interesting physical
properties derived from their unique architecture. While great strides have been made in our …

We use a combination of the coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations and scaling
analysis to study conformations of bottlebrush and comb-like polymers in a melt. Our …

Brush macromolecules having poly (n-butyl acrylate-block-styrene) and poly (styrene-block-
n-butyl acrylate) side chains have been synthesized by the “grafting from” approach using …

On the basis of extensive Monte Carlo simulations of lattice models for linear chains under
good and Θ solvents conditions, and for bottle-brush polymers under good solvent …

Grafting from via atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) was employed for the
synthesis of densely grafted molecular brushes. A poly (2-(2-bromopropionyl) oxyethyl …

The linear viscoelastic behavior of poly (norbornene)-graft-poly (±-lactide) was investigated
as a function of grafting density and overall molar mass. Eight sets of polymers with grafting …