Chemical Botany: Bottlebrush Polymers in Materials Science

I Lapkriengkri, KR Albanese, A Rhode… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Molecular architectures known as bottlebrush polymers provide unique opportunities to tune
the structure and properties of soft materials with applications ranging from rubbers to thin …

From macromonomers to bottlebrush copolymers with sequence control: synthesis, properties, and applications

KH Kim, J Nam, J Choi, M Seo, J Bang - Polymer Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Bottlebrush polymers (BBPs) are a type of comb-like macromolecule with densely grafted
polymeric sidechains attached to the polymer backbones, and many intriguing properties …

Direct-ink-write cross-linkable bottlebrush block copolymers for on-the-fly control of structural color

S Jeon, YL Kamble, H Kang, J Shi, MA Wade… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Additive manufacturing capable of controlling and dynamically modulating structures down
to the nanoscopic scale remains challenging. By marrying additive manufacturing with self …

Opportunities in Bottlebrush Block Copolymers for Advanced Materials

D Saha, CL Witt, R Fatima, T Uchiyama, V Pande… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Bottlebrush block copolymers (BBCPs) are a unique class of materials that contain a
backbone with densely grafted and chemically distinct polymeric side chains. The nonlinear …

Visualizing the orientation of single polymers induced by spin-coating

JM Chan, M Wang - Nano letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
The orientation of chains within polymeric materials influences their electrical, mechanical,
and thermal properties. While many techniques can infer the orientation distribution of a bulk …

Bottlebrush polymers via ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP): Synthesis, properties and applications

SR Rout, G Kenguva, S Mansuri, KR Manu… - European Polymer …, 2024 - Elsevier
Bottlebrush polymers (BBPs) are a class of branch or graft macromolecules with polymeric
side chains attached to linear backbone leading to cylindrical or worm like structures. Due to …

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 …

Large Modulation of Bottlebrush Diblock Copolymer Morphology and Structural Color through Solvent Selectivity

S Jeon, YL Kamble, Z Xu, A Khasbaatar, C Hwang… - Soft Matter, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Bottlebrush block copolymers (BBCPs), characterized by densely grafted side chains along
their backbone, have emerged as promising materials for structural color applications. Their …

Self-assembly of POSS–Polystyrene Bottlebrush Block Copolymers on an Angle-Robust Selective Absorber for Enhancing the Purity of Reflective Structural Color

YG Yu, JH Ko, JH An, BG Kang… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A facile approach for improving color purity is explored by the introduction of an angle-robust
selective absorber (ARSA) into bottlebrush block copolymer (BBCP)-based one-dimensional …

Direct Visualization of Bottlebrush Polymers in a Bulk Environment using Super-Resolution Optical Microscopy

JM Chan - 2023 - search.proquest.com
The foundation of polymer physics begins on a basis of understanding single chain
behavior, yet so far there has been a lack of single-chain studies by direct imaging. This is …