Soft materials are a familiar form of condensed matter.Representative familiar examples are polymer melts,colloidal dispersions,foams,and biological tissue such as collagen and spider silk.Block copolymers are quintessential "designer" soft materials.Modern synthetic chemical methods afford access to an ...
The confinement assembly of block copolymers shows great potential regarding the formation of functional microparticles with compartmentalized structure. Although a large variety of block chemistries have already been used, less is known about microdomai
Due to their ability to self-assemble into complex structures, block copolymers are of great interest for use in a wide range of future applications, such as self-healing materials. Therefore, it is important to understand the mechanisms of their structure formation. In particular, the process en...
Block Copolymers\\u2014Designer Soft Materials Mortality rates in ESRD are unacceptably high. Disorders of mineral metabolism (hyperphosphatemia, hypercalcemia, and secondary hyperparathyroidism) are potentially modifiable. For determining associations among disorders of mineral meta... FS Bates,GH Fredrickson...
Generating Functional Nanoscale Soft Materials Using Block Copolymers (invited presentation)T.H. Epps III
Schacher, F.; Ulbricht, M.; Muller, A.H.E. Self-Supporting, Double Stimuli-Responsive Porous Membranes From Polystyrene-block-poly (N,N-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate) Diblock Copolymers. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2009, 19, 1040–1045. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] Cetintas, M.; de Grooth, J....
The presence of strain hardening indicates a very intense effect of PEG on increased segmental mobility, thus facilitating the plastic deformation of the block copolymers upon tensile drawing. Other notable factors influencing the mechanical performance of PLA-based materials are the content of soft ...
To form the HPNCs, a consecutive process involving the self-assembly of the SBR-b-PEGMA block copolymers and photo-crosslinking was performed. For photo-crosslinking, the materials require photo-crosslinkable materials, photoinitiators, and crosslinking agents. A high-speed photo-crosslinking ...
The use of block copolymers as a sacrificial template has been demonstrated to be a powerful method for obtaining porous carbons as electrode materials in energy storage devices. In this work, a block copolymer of polystyrene and polyacrylonitrile (PS−b−PAN) has been used as a precursor to...
polymers Article Polyelectrolyte Complexation of Oligonucleotides by Charged Hydrophobic—Neutral Hydrophilic Block Copolymers Alexander E. Marras 1 , Jeffrey R. Vieregg 1,* , Jeffrey M. Ting 1,2 , Jack D. Rubien 3 and Matthew V. Tirrell 1,2 1 Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of...