Highlights of Polymer Physics (DPOLY) Talks @ APS 2022 March Meeting
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TABLE 1: Highlights of Polymer Physics (DPOLY) Talks @ APS 2022 March Meeting
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| 1 | DPOLY Short Course: Sustainable Polymers: Physics of New Materials, Design for Sustainability, and End-of-Life I Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: DPOLY Short Course: Sustainable Polymers: Physics of New Materials, Design for Sustainability, and End-of-Life … |
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| 2 | DPOLY Short Course: Sustainable Polymers: Physics of New Materials, Design for Sustainability, and End-of-Life II Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details |
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| 3 | Leveraging Repetitive Protein Polymers to Engineer Calcium-Responsive Soft Materials Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We explored the impact of monomer-scale manipulations of this sequence by creating a panel of RTX proteins with the repetitive sequence GGAGXDTYL, substituting X with various amino acids to study the impact of electrostatic interactions and hydrophobicity on calcium-responsive behavior. |
Marina Chang ; Danielle Mai; |
| 4 | Supramolecular Self-assembly of Periodic Dynamic Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we use these principles to design linear, flexible polymer chains with periodically-placed and directional dynamic bonds that collectively assemble into supramolecular nanofibers. |
Christopher Cooper ; Zhenan Bao; |
| 5 | Structure and Dynamics of Complex Random Heteropolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we will present our work on the atomistic structure and dynamics of a class of complex random heteropolymers composed of 4 or more chemically distinct monomers. |
Alfredo Alexander-Katz; |
| 6 | Anomalous Self-assembly of Architecturally Semiflexible Block Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, using a combination of molecular design, chemical synthesis, small-/wide-angle X-ray scattering, transmission electron microscopy, and electron tomography, we discover that this molecular picture does not hold for architecturally semiflexible BCPs. |
Liheng Cai; |
| 7 | Predicting Sequence-Structure Correlations of A Copolymer Using Evolutionary Computing Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The work demonstrate how monomer level sequence control can be utilized to design polymer microstructure. |
Tarak Patra ; Ashwin Bale ; Sachin Gautham; |
| 8 | Conformations of Sequence-Specific Polyampholytes with Zero and Nonzero Global Charges Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The present work provides an insight into sequence-encoded conformations and conformational transitions in single-chain synthetic PAs and intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). |
Artem Rumyantsev ; Nicholas Jackson ; Albert Johner ; Juan De Pablo; |
| 9 | Polymers Constructed from The Self-assembly of Computationally Designed Coiled-coil Peptide Via Designed Assembly Pathways Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: A series of net positively charged 29 amino-acids peptides were computationally designed to self-assemble into tetrameric, anti-parallel coiled-coil peptide bundles, or ‘bundlemers’. |
Yao Tang ; Nairiti Sinha ; Rui Guo ; Jeffrey Saven ; Christopher Kloxin ; Darrin Pochan; |
| 10 | Separating Sequence-specific from Composition Effects on Adsorption of Amphiphilic Polypeptoids at Fluid-Fluid Interfaces Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We avoid these difficulties by choosing four sequences of compositionally uniform, amphiphilic polypeptoids (4 kg/mol). |
Lynn Walker ; Rachel Segalman ; Michael Davidson ; Anastasia Patterson ; Beihang Yu; |
| 11 | Strategy for Synthesis of Statistically Sequence-Controlled Uniform PLGA, and Effects of Sequence Distribution on Interaction and Drug Release Properties Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Herein, we present a new semi-batch copolymerization strategy (i.e., a slow simultaneous comonomer addition method) that enables production of statistically sequence-controlled “uniform PLGA” polymers through control of the rate of comonomer addition. |
Jin Yoo ; Samruddhi Patil ; You-Yeon Won; |
| 12 | Understanding The Structure-property Relationship of Polymer-grafted Nanosheets Upon Crumpling Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We find that polymer grafted graphene sheets with larger grafting density exhibit more wrinkling in equilibrium than pristine graphene sheet and sheets with smaller grafting density. |
Yangchao Liao ; Wenjie Xia ; Zhaofan Li; |
| 13 | Dynamics of Glassy Polymers Under Nanoscale Confinement Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, I will focus on how the effects of the two interfaces combine to produce changes to the whole-film dynamics as revealed by recent experiments conducted by our group on the glass transition temperature and effective viscosity of thin films of random copolymers [1,2] and polymers chemically mildly modified by ultra-violet ozone treatment [3-5]. |
Ophelia Tsui; |
| 14 | Structure and Dynamics of Star-polymer/Polymer Composites Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Accordingly, we study how the properties of polymer melts are altered by the addition of a small fraction of star polymer, thereby creating a star polymer/polymer composites. |
Cesar Castro ; Francis Starr; |
| 15 | Irreversible Adsorption in Polymer Nanocomposites Perturbs Local Tg and Dynamics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we demonstrate a novel approach combining stepwise assembly of polymer nanocomposites—that is, sequential preparation of adsorbed and unadsorbed regions—with direct characterization techniques such as transmission electron microscopy and fluorescence spectroscopy. |
Katelyn Randazzo ; Rodney Priestley ; Biao Zuo; |
| 16 | Effect of SiO2 on Polymer Dynamics in PEO / Nanocomposites: A Combined Experimental and Computational Approach Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: The dynamics of polymers in PEO / SiO 2 nanocomposites is investigated experimentally utilizing dielectric relaxation spectroscopy (DS) over a broad range of frequencies and for … |
Spiros Anastasiadis ; Kiriaki Chrissopoulou ; Eleni Papananou ; Albert Power ; Anastassia Rissanou ; Vagelis Harmandaris ; Massimiliano Labardi; |
| 17 | Conflicting Role of Plasticization in Nanorheology of Out-of-equilibrium Thin Polystyrene Films Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have explored dewetting hole growth dynamics in high molecular weight polystyrene (PS) thin films plasticized by dioctyl phthalate (DOP). |
Mithun Chowdhury ; Mithun Madhusudanan ; Jotypriya Sarkar; |
| 18 | Activation Free Energy Gradient Controls Interfacial Mobility Gradient in Thin Polymer Films Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We examine the mobility gradient in the interfacial region of substrate-supported polymer films using molecular dynamics simulations and interpret these gradients within the string model of glass-formation. |
Jack Douglas ; Francis Starr ; Wengang Zhang; |
| 19 | Annealing Matters: Shear Wave Propagation Through A Dissimilar Polymer-Polymer Interface at MHz Frequencies Measured By QCM Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Collecting these ideas, we hypothesize that the mechanism underlying strong dynamic coupling across dissimilar polymer-polymer interfaces may be related to impedance matching, where similar moduli and densities and larger interfacial widths translate to more transmission of phonon modes or acoustic waves through the interface. |
Yannic Gagnon ; Justin Burton ; Connie Roth; |
| 20 | How The Polymer Electrolyte PEO/LiTFSI Penetrates Narrow Pores Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We investigate if and how the ionic conductivity and chain mobility of a polymer electrolyte is affected during imbibition and following imbibition in nanopores. |
George Floudas ; Chien-Hua Tu ; Hans-Juergen Butt; |
| 21 | Impact of Covalently Attached Model Probes on Polymer Physical Properties – A Quantitative Assessment Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This work focuses on quantitatively understanding the impact of molecular probes on chain conformation and Tg (bulk and thin film) using amino pyrene and Sudan IV covalently attached to high and low molecular weight polymer model systems, assessed over a wide range of concentrations. |
Mikaela Sadri; |
| 22 | Thermal and UV Stability of Organic Glasses Under Extreme Nanoconfinement Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we investigate thermal and UV degradations of highly confined indomethacin (IMC, T g = 316 K) in silica NPs (3 – 30 nm average pore sizes). |
Yueli Chen ; Haonan Wang ; Ahmad Abadi ; Zahra Fakhraai; |
| 23 | Gradient of Segmental Dynamics in Stereoregular Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Melts Confined Between Pristine or Oxidized Graphene Sheets Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Segmental dynamics in unentangled isotactic, syndiotactic, and atactic poly(methyl methacrylate) (i-, a-, and s-PMMA) melts confined between pristine graphene, reduced graphene … |
Alireza Foroozani Behbahani ; Vagelis Harmandaris; |
| 24 | How Do End-Tethered Chains Alter The Local Glass Transition Temperature Next to Solid Substrates? Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Grafted polymer chains are widely used for modifying interfacial interactions in polymer materials and nanocomposites, but the mechanisms by which the changes to material … |
James Merrill ; Carl Li ; Connie Roth; |
| 25 | Polymer / Graphite Oxide Nanocomposites Before and After Thermal Reduction Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Nanocomposites of hyperbranched polymers with graphitic materials are investigated with respect to their structure, thermal properties as well as the dynamics of the polymer. … |
Kiriaki Chrissopoulou ; Krystalenia Androulaki ; Spiros Anastasiadis ; Massimiliano Labardi; |
| 26 | Multiscale Ordering in Hybrid Materials During Reaction-Induced Phase Transitions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, the presentation will describe how a mixture of oleylamine-functionalized gold nanoparticles (AuNP) dispersed and methyl methacrylate (MMA) that are polymerized lead to hybrid AuNP/poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) materials with multiscale ordering. |
Robert Hickey; |
| 27 | Effect of Nanorod Physical Roughness on The Aggregation and Percolation of Nanorods in Polymer Nanocomposites Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, using molecular dynamics simulations, we elucidate the effect of nanorod roughness on nanorod aggregation, dispersion, and percolation in polymer nanocomposites. |
Shizhao Lu ; Arthi Jayaraman; |
| 28 | The Solubility of Nanoparticles in Block Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we use coarse-grained, theoretically-informed Langevin dynamics (TILD) simulations to explore the excess chemical potential of spherical NPs via thermodynamic integration and the stability of NP uptake into the BCP matrix. |
Christian Tabedzki ; Robert Riggleman; |
| 29 | Superconducting Metal Gyroids: Block Copolymer Self-assembly for Mesoscale Engineering of Quantum Metamaterials Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work we use BCP SA to structure direct polysilazanes and create mesoporous silicon oxynitride ceramics with a cubic co-continuous double gyroid structure. |
Randal Thedford ; Ulrich Wiesner ; Sol Gruner; |
| 30 | Self-Assembly of Hierarchical Organic Nanoparticles Controlled By Modified Surfactants Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work a polyethelene oxide (PEO) based surfactant, Triton TM X-100 ®, is used to control clustering of an organic pigment. |
Jianqi Wang; |
| 31 | Hierarchical Nanolayered Polymer/nanoparticle Composites Via 3D Printing Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This research combines advanced 3D printing and evaporation-induced nanoparticles assembly for layer-by-layer deposition of 1D and 2D nanoparticles. |
Kenan Song; |
| 32 | Coarse-grained Simulation Studies Linking Physical and Chemical Heterogeneity in Nanorods to The Morphology in Polymer Nanocomposites Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this short talk, I will present the key results from these coarse-grained molecular simulation studies comparing phase behavior in PNCs with nanorods having homogeneous vs. patchy chemical functionalization and smooth vs. rough nanorod surfaces. |
Arthi Jayaraman; |
| 33 | Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) Simulation to Understand The Impact of Filler Morphology on Dispersion and Aggregation in Polymer Nanocomposites Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this research, we perform Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) simulation of polymer-irregular filler blends, to understand the hierarchical structure and dispersion over multiple lengths and timescales, while varying polymer-polymer interaction energy. |
Ashish Gogia ; Kabir Rishi ; Alex McGlasson ; Greg Beaucage ; Vikram Kuppa; |
| 34 | Effect of Graft Density on Structure and Entanglements of Model Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticle Monolayers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We use coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations to study chain conformations and nanoscale structure in hexagonally packed PGN monolayers as a function of graft density. |
Nicholas Liesen ; Anna Schuler ; Lisa Hall; |
| 35 | Crystallization-induced Ordering in Poly(ethylene Oxide)-Silica Nanocomposites: Modifying Particle Diffusivity Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To examine this role we used silica nanoparticles in four molecular weights of Poly(ethylene oxide) ranging from 5.4 – 46 kDa. |
Nicholas Mendez ; Abdullah Altorbaq ; Kamlesh Bornani ; Alejandro J Müller ; Linda Schadler ; Sanat Kumar; |
| 36 | Modeling Pairs of Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles (PGNs) in Solution to Determine Their Phase Behavior Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We use coarse-grained molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to study the effective interactions between two PGNs in implicit solvent. |
Felipe Fabricio Pacci Evaristo ; Lisa Hall ; Mukta Tripathy; |
| 37 | Chemically Grafting Suppresses Initial Solvent-driven Nonequilibrium Effect on Structures and Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we investigate the casting solvent-induced nonequilibrium effect for PNCs where interfacial polymers are chemically grafted. |
Sol Mi Oh ; Ye Chan Kim ; So Youn Kim; |
| 38 | Crystallization and Multi-crystalline Morphology in PE-b-PEO-b-PCL-b-PLLA Tetrablock Quarterpolymers and Their Respective Precursors Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Semi-crystalline block copolymers are fascinating materials. The level of complexity in their crystallization behavior increases with the number of potentially crystallizable … |
Alejandro J Müller; |
| 39 | Critical Tie Molecule Density for Ductility in Linear Polyethylene Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Semicrystalline polymers of low Tg, such as polyethylene (PE), can be brittle or ductile depending on whether sufficient intercrystalline tie chains are present, which depends in … |
Seong Hyuk Cho ; Richard Register; |
| 40 | The Role of Molecular Attributes on Crystallization and Self-nucleation of Conjugated Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we investigate the role of molecular characteristics on solventless crystallization of poly-3-hexylthiophene under well-defined conditions. |
Lucia Fernandez-Ballester ; Jesse Kuebler ; Ramin Hoseinabad ; Linus Dhapola ; Lucia Fernandez-Ballester; |
| 41 | Crystallization of Poly(Phenylene Sulfide) Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To clarify crystal morphology and crystallization process in the various annealing temperature, we performed on in-situ small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering and conventional/rapid-scanning DSC measurements. |
Go Matsuba ; Genta Mase ; Misa Yogiashi ; Wenbing Hu; |
| 42 | Liquids That Freeze When Mixed: Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Co-crystallization of Polyoxacyclobutane with Water Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We examine the kinetics of isothermal cocrystallization in mixtures with less than 25 wt% POCB which are homogeneous prior to hydrate formation. |
Emily Barker ; Sudesna Banerjee ; Tara Meyer ; Sachin Velankar; |
| 43 | Molecular Structural Basis in Polymer Melt-Crystallization Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk we present local chain trajectory of Poly(L-lactic Acid) (PLLA) in extreme conditions, thermodynamically stable crystals formed at a very high temperature from the melt and the glass (cold-crystallization), and a rapidly quenched glass by applying 13C- 13C double quantum spectroscopy. |
Toshikazu Miyoshi; |
| 44 | Self-Nucleation Behavior in PEO-b-PCL Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This technique provides the possibility to tune the crystallinity of each block using post-casting thermal treatment. |
Ryan VanHorn ; Trevor Jonny ; Barbara Flores; |
| 45 | Heterogeneous Nucleation in PA66: Efficency of Flow-induced Precursors Vs Equivalent Loading of Carbon Nanotubes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: The nucleating efficiency of a known volume of flow-induced precursors in polyamide 66 (PA66) was established and compared to the nucleating efficiency of a volumetric and … |
Alicyn Rhoades ; Anne Gohn ; Xiaoshi Zhang ; René Androsch ; Ralph Colby; |
| 46 | Tuning The Crystallization Behavior of Block Copolymers with Phospholipid Hybridization Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we investigate the use of 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC) phospholipids additives that expand the utility of conventional confinement effects in directing methoxy-poly(ethylene glycol)- b-poly(e-caprolactone) (mPEG- b-PCL) assembly and crystallization on solid supports. |
Yoo Kyung Go ; Cecilia Leal; |
| 47 | Free Energy Analysis of Polymer Crystal Nucleation Indicates Cooperative Crystallization and Nematic Alignment Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To qualify their applicability, we recently performed calculations of the FEL of oligomer crystal nucleation using advanced Monte Carlo methods. |
Pierre Kawak ; Dakota Banks ; Douglas Tree; |
| 48 | Inversion in The Temperature Gradient of The Crystallization Kinetics of Long-Spaced Polyesters at The Transition Between Two Crystalline Structures Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we demonstrate that self-poisoning is ubiquitous to high molar mass polymers when transitioning between structures that are not energetically equivalent, and consequently display sufficiently different nucleation and growth kinetics. |
Stephanie Marxsen ; Manuel Häußler ; Stefan Mecking ; Rufina Alamo; |
| 49 | Linear Molecular Weight Dependence of Lamellar Aspect Ratio in Polyethylene Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, a new hierarchical scattering function, the Unified Born-Green model (UBG), is presented that can quantify the lamellar aspect ratio allowing experimental verification of the Krishnaswamy model. |
Jonathan Camara; |
| 50 | Embodied Intelligence in Liquid Crystal Elastomer Composites: From Shape Morphing to Soft Robotics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: By pre-programming and reprogramming molecular anisotropy in liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) and their nanocomposites together with geometric designs in the forms of films, fibers, and microparticles, we show shape morphing from 2D to 3D with combination of curvatures. |
Shu Yang; |
| 51 | Viscoelastic Kirigami Plates Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our approach enables reliable switching between various modes in response to the applied strain-rate. |
Shahram Janbaz ; Corentin Coulais; |
| 52 | 4D-Printing of Photoswitchable Actuators Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) modified with a photoisomerizable chromophore can be designed to undergo reversible shape change in response to light. The return of the original … |
Taylor Ware; |
| 53 | Understanding The Spring-like Behavior of A Creased Sheet Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our work focuses on understanding the role of geometry, material laws, and the parameters controlling the crease formation. |
Yasara Dharmadasa ; Francisco Lopez Jimenez; |
| 54 | Design for Underactuated Sequencing of Bistable Inflatable Structures Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we present the design an underactuated system of soft actuators that inflate and deflate in a fixed sequence from a single controlled pressure supply. |
Bert Van Raemdonck ; Edoardo Milana ; Michael De Volder ; Dominiek Reynaerts ; Benjamin Gorissen; |
| 55 | Smart Fluidic Circuits for Electronics-free Untethered Soft Robots Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: By exploiting interactions between the driving fluid and non-linear elastomeric mechanisms, e.g. exhibiting instabilities, we implement functionalities such as oscillatory actuation, environmental feedback, short and long term memory and energy storage. |
Alberto Comoretto ; Luuk Van Laake ; Johannes Overvelde; |
| 56 | Inelastic Deformation Morphs Elastic-plastic Bilayers Into Helices, Rolls, Saddles, and Tubes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We show elastic-plastic bilayers undergo shape changes upon stretching and then releasing them due to inelastic deformation of the plastic layer. |
Rahul Gopalan Ramachandran ; Jonah de Cortie ; Spandan Maiti ; Luca Deseri ; Sachin Velankar; |
| 57 | Morpho-mechanics of Pressurized Cellular Sheets: From Moss Leaves to Soft Robotics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We will present a model of single-cell-thick sheets and show how a pressure-dependent bending stiffness may arise. |
Thomas Chandler ; Dominic Vella ; Arezki Boudaoud ; Perla Maiolino; |
| 58 | Pneumatic Morphorods: Curvilinear Shape Morphing and Stability Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we leverage bubble casting as a means to build linear actuators with controllable and tunable bending. |
Trevor Jones ; Etienne Jambon-Puillet ; Joel Marthelot ; Pierre-Thomas Brun; |
| 59 | Controlling Metric & Bending in Inflated Fabrics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we present a versatile method based on a network of channels between two layers of fabric. |
Tian Gao ; José Bico ; Benoît Roman; |
| 60 | Multi-morph Pneu-net Systems with A Single Input Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Hence, we can achieve multiple morphing sequentially by elaborate arrangements of the chambers of different stiffnesses. |
Cheong San Kim ; Han Bi Jeong ; Jonghyun Ha ; Anna Lee ; Ho-Young Kim; |
| 61 | Modeling Self-folding of Large-scale Structures Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We study the morphing of large-scale origami-inspired active structures made from strong and lightweight biodegradable polymer composites. |
Anvitha Sudhakar ; Mostafa Akbari ; Masoud Akbarzadeh ; Andrej Kosmrlj; |
| 62 | A Dynamically Reprogrammable Metasurface with Self-evolving Shape Morphing Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we describe a dynamically reprogrammable mechanical metasurface with embedded actuation, sensing, and feedback-control functions for shape-morphing intelligence. |
Xiaoyue Ni ; Yun Bai ; Heling Wang ; Yeguang Xue ; Yuxin Pan ; Jin-Tae Kim ; Xinchen Ni ; Tzu-Li Liu ; Yiyuan Yang ; Mengdi Han ; Yonggang Huang ; John Rogers; |
| 63 | An Active DNA Liquid Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We seek to create self-assembled biomolecular liquid droplets that act as rough mimics of biological condensates, and to engineer mesoscopic structure and active functions into the droplets through molecular design. |
Omar Saleh; |
| 64 | Flatness and Intrinsic Curvature of Linked-Ring Membranes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Inspired by these studies, we use Monte Carlo simulations to examine the behavior of two-dimensional networks ("membranes’") of linked rings. |
James Polson ; Edgar Garcia ; Alexander Klotz; |
| 65 | Employing Artificial Neural Networks to Find Reaction Coordinates and Pathways for Self-assembly Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we study the self-assembly of two single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) fragments into a ring-like structure, considering two cases with either symmetric or asymmetric ssDNA base sequences. |
Jörn Appeldorn ; Arash Nikoubashman ; Thomas Speck ; Simon Lemcke; |
| 66 | Transcription-Driven Dissolution of A DNA Liquid Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Research has shown that these condensates are dynamic; they form and dissolve throughout the life-cycle of the cell. |
Gabrielle Abraham ; Sam Wilken ; Omar Saleh; |
| 67 | DNA Hybridization Tunes Hierarchical Assembly of Supramolecular Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we report on DNA-decorated supramolecular brush nanofibers, where DNA base-pairing drives the hierarchical assembly of the peptide-DNA brush nanofibers. |
Ronit Freeman; |
| 68 | Kinetoplast DNA: Topology and Hydrodynamics of Molecular Chainmail Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, I will summarize what is known about the biology and topology of kinetoplast networks and overview recent work exploring the polymer physics of kinetoplasts in solution. |
Alexander Klotz ; Joshua Ragotskie ; Dave Holling ; Kyle Covington ; Jin Jeon; |
| 69 | Topologically Active DNA with ATP-driven Ligation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our work, inspired by the biology of DNA repair, offers a way to realise non-equilibrium “topologically active” complex fluids that can pave the way for responsive and adaptive materials. |
Maria Panoukidou ; Simon Weir ; Davide Michieletto; |
| 70 | Diffusion of DNA-coated Colloids on DNA Coated Surface Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we report on the diffusion of DNA-coated colloidal spheres on a flat DNA- coated substrate. |
Jeana Zheng ; David Pine; |
| 71 | Transcriptional Regulation of DNA Liquid Phase Separation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have developed a nanostar system where the liquid-liquid phase separation is regulated in situ via transcription. |
Sam Wilken ; Gabrielle Abraham ; Omar Saleh; |
| 72 | Non-equilibrium Microrheology of Topologically-active DNA Solutions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In future work, we will examine different DNA lengths, topologies, and types of enzymes to create a class of non-equilibrium reconfigurable fluids with applications from drug delivery and wound-healing to infrastructure repair. |
Philip Neill ; Natalie Crist ; Karthik Peddireddy ; Davide Michieletto ; Rae Robertson-Anderson; |
| 73 | Computational Simulation of DNA Origami with Plasmonics Nanoparticle Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we present a method to simulate the dynamics of DNA origami combined with gold nanoparticles. |
Pin-Yi Li ; Christopher Maffeo ; Aleksei Aksimentiev; |
| 74 | Unzipping of A Double-stranded Block Copolymer DNA By A Periodic Force Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Using Monte Carlo simulations, we study the hysteresis in unzipping of a double stranded block copolymer DNA with −A nB n− repeat units. |
Ramu Yadav; |
| 75 | Soft Surface Layers Control Contact and Slip of Polyacrylamide Hydrogels Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This experimental work uses broad probes in micro-indentation to characterize the contact mechanics of this gradient layer based on the evolving scaling of the indentation force F with depth F~ dn. |
Md Mahmudul Hasan ; Christopher Johnson ; Alison Dunn; |
| 76 | Drop Pinning on Soft, Lubricant-infused Silicone Elastomers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we focus on the influence of polymer network density (i.e. modulus) and degree of swelling on the water drop pinning force. |
ZHUOYUN CAI ; Jonathan Pham; |
| 77 | Contact Lines in Partial Wetting: Transition from Stick-slip to Steady Sliding Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We study the motion of a viscous slug in a capillary tube, where one of its interfaces is in complete wetting while the other is in partial wetting conditions. |
Bauyrzhan Primkulov ; Amir Pahlavan ; Luis Cueto-Felgueroso ; Ruben Juanes; |
| 78 | Friction of Sparkling Water Drops on Superhydrophobic Surfaces Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In our work, we have used micropipette force sensors to directly measure the minute friction force of levitating sparkling water drops moving on a transparent superhydrophobic substrate. |
Matilda Backholm ; Tytti Kärki ; Maja Vuckovac ; Jaakko Timonen ; Robin Ras; |
| 79 | Contact Angle Hysteresis of A Droplet on A Hydrophobic, Anisotropically Curved Surface Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This work may provide new insights into the origin of contact angle hysteresis and offer a route to calculating droplet shapes. |
Mingzhu Cui ; Nadav Benhamou Goldfajn ; Anthony Dinsmore; |
| 80 | Rubber Friction: from Steady Sliding to Stick Slip and Squeaking Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: For driving velocities lower than a critical velocity we observe homogeneous steady sliding of the entire frictional interface. |
Gabriele Albertini ; Adel Djellouli ; David Weitz ; Katia Bertoldi; |
| 81 | Temperature Dependent Soft Wetting of Polymer Melts Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we investigate the transient wetting characteristics of a polymer melt (poly n-butyl methacrylate) at temperatures much higher than its glass-transition. |
Krishnaroop Chaudhuri ; Jonathan Pham; |
| 82 | Rotation and Torque in Conforming and Non-Conforming Lubricated Contacts Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we calculate this torque numerically for a wide range of sliding velocities in a two-dimensional configuration. |
Arash Kargar-Estahbanati ; Bhargav Rallabandi; |
| 83 | Quantification of Adhesion Force Using A Force Tensiometer and Influence of Surrounding Medium for A Liquid Droplet Over A Solid Surface Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This paper outlines proposed necessary and precise steps to quantify the magnitude of adhesion force directly and the parameters that affect the magnitude of adhesion force, such as droplet volume and compression value are also taken into account. |
Palak Jain ; Aleksey Baldygin ; Prashant Waghmare ; Butunath Majhy; |
| 84 | Measuring Elastocapillary Dissipation in Droplets Moving Along Soft Elastomer Films Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We model the dynamics of the droplet-substrate interaction and expect dissipation to scale with the size of the capillary deformation. |
Hamza Khattak ; Stefan Karpitschka ; Jacco Snoeijer ; Kari Dalnoki-Veress; |
| 85 | X-ray Microscopy Visualizes The Indentation of Colloids Into Soft Elastic Solids Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Varying the particle sizes and Young’s modulus of substrates, we confirm the crossover behavior between elastic and liquid-like substrates; The model combining the JKR theory and the surface stress of the substrate well describes the data. |
Joonwoo Jeong ; Jae Kwan Im; |
| 86 | The Role of Crosslinking Density in Surface Stress and Surface Energy of Soft Solids Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this regime, we can estimate a non-zero surface elastic modulus that also increases with the ratio of crosslinkers. |
Qin Xu ; Weiwei ZHAO; |
| 87 | Molecular Mechanisms of Self-mated Hydrogel Friction Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have developed a mesoscopic model based on bead-spring polymer networks, which is able to reproduce the speed-dependent frictional behavior. |
Jan Mees ; Lars Pastewka; |
| 88 | Complexation of Charged Polymers: From Coacervates to Polymeric Ionic Liquids and Plastic Waste Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This talk will discuss the basic physics of charge complexation in polymers, leading for example to complex coacervation in aqueous mixtures of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes and self-coacervation of polyampholyte solutions. |
Glenn Fredrickson; |
| 89 | Predicting Polyelectrolyte Complex Coacervation from A Molecularly-informed Field-theoretic Simulation Approach Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present a new simulation strategy to study complex coacervation leveraging the strengths of both particle and polymer field-theoretic simulations. |
My Nguyen ; Nick Sherck ; Kevin Shen ; Brian Yoo ; Stephan Kohler ; Joshua Speros ; Kris Delaney ; M. Scott Shell ; Glenn Fredrickson; |
| 90 | Polyelectrolyte Complex Coacervation Across A Broad Range of Charge Densities Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Polyelectrolyte complex coacervates of homologous (co)polyelectrolytes with a near-ideally random distribution of a charged and neutral ethylene oxide comonomer were synthesized. … |
Angelika Neitzel; |
| 91 | Transfer Matrix Model of of PH Effects in Polymeric Complex Coacervation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We aim to reconcile a notable difference between most experiments and theoretical models. |
Ashley Knoerdel ; Whitney Blocher McTigue ; Charles Sing; |
| 92 | Polyelectrolyte Complex Coacervation in Solvent Mixtures Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We identify regimes where solvent quality (hydrophobicity) become a predominant factor in coacervation. |
Yuanchi Ma ; Jan Obrzut ; Jack Douglas ; Vivek Prabhu; |
| 93 | Pathway and Driving Force in Polyelectrolyte Complex Coacervation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Theory and simulation have suggested that the polycations and polyanions exist as pairs in the supernatant phase. |
Shensheng Chen ; Zhen-Gang Wang; |
| 94 | Stabilization of Polyelectrolyte Complexes Via Cation-π Interactions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We investigate the impact of cation-π and π-π interactions on the phase behavior and thermodynamics of polyelectrolyte complexation in a series of well-defined polyelectrolytes with aromatic (benzyl) and non-aromatic (cyclohexanemethyl) sidechains. |
Jennifer Laaser ; Jun Huang ; Lexi Knight; |
| 95 | Water-, Salt-, and Temperature-induced Phase Transitions in Polyelectrolyte Complexes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, using turbidity, conductivity measurements, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and optical microscopy (OM), we identify the phase boundaries of poly(diallyldimethyl ammonium)/poly(acrylic acid) complexes. |
Chikaodinaka Eneh ; Jodie Lutkenhaus; |
| 96 | Charged Complexes of Random Copolymers for Applications in Environmental Sustainability Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We extend this concept to complexes of charged random copolymers and enzymes that can enhance enzymatic activity, particularly in the case of PET degradation. |
Jeremy Wang ; Curt Waltmann ; Han Umana-Kossio ; Carolyn Mills ; Danielle Tullman-Ercek ; John Torkelson ; Monica Olvera De La Cruz; |
| 97 | Scattering Function in Systems of Charged Polymers: From Polyelectrolyte Solutions to Polyelectrolyte Complexes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To elucidate the effect of counterion valence (degree of polymerization of neutralizing chains) on the peak position and the form of the scattering function, we use a combination of coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations and analytical calculations in the framework of the Random Phase Approximation (RPA). |
Yuan Tian ; Ryan Sayko ; Heyi Liang ; Andrey Dobrynin; |
| 98 | Interlude of Mesomorphic State in Polyelectrolyte Complexation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, using light scattering studies on complexation in aqueous solutions of polycations and oppositely charged organic salt, we report an unusual phenomenon of the emergence of a mesomorphic state. |
Di Jia ; Murugappan Muthukumar; |
| 99 | Role of Entropy in Charged Polymers and Its Complexes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We review the role of entropy in several charged polymer systems. |
Soumik Mitra ; Arindam Kundagrami; |
| 100 | Monovalent Salt Induced Simple Coacervation of Guanidinium-functionalized Polyelectrolytes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We observed that the G-PAGE solution shows that LLPS occurs when the electrostatic repulsion is sufficiently reduced by adding monovalent salt, and the coacervates follows the upper critical solution temperature (UCST) behavior. |
Seunghwan Oh ; Jinhoon Lee ; Minhwan Lee ; Seulwoo Kim ; Wonbo Lee ; Dongwoog Lee ; SooHyung Choi; |
| 101 | Cascading Crystallization in Mixed Polyolefins Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we employ the rheo-Raman microscope, phase contrast microscopy, and differential scanning calorimetry to study the crystallization and the associated rheology in immiscible blends of high density polyethylene and isotactic polypropylene. |
Kalman Migler ; Derek Huang ; Anthony Kotula ; Chad Snyder; |
| 102 | Understanding The Physics of Polymer Depoloymerization for Polymer Recycling Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we use a hybrid Brownian Dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations to model the interaction of a polymer with a surface that can initiate depolymerization of linear and cyclic polymers. |
Whitney Blocher McTigue ; Charles Sing; |
| 103 | Molecular Design of Polymeric Compatibilizers for Improved Mechanical Recycling Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This presentation will provide the current state of our understanding of the role of co-crystallization in the compatibilization of crystalline polymer blends, and provide insight into the molecular characteristics of effective copolymeric compatibilizers for phase separated crystalline polymer blends, including those that are most relevant for mixed waste streams in polymer recycling. |
Mark Dadmun; |
| 104 | Enabling Circular Polymers Through Quantum Chemistry Calculations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This work demonstrates how quantum chemistry tools can be used to develop mechanistic insights into how bond chemistry enables monomer-to-monomer recycling. |
Alexander Epstein ; Jérémy Demarteau ; Peter Christensen ; Mark Abubekerov ; Trevor Seguin ; Kristin Persson ; Brett Helms; |
| 105 | Improved Toughness of Incompatible Polymer Mixtures Via Sequence-defined Compatibilizers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we examine this question through the use of coarse-grain molecular dynamics simulations in which we add various sequence-defined copolymer compatibilizers to an incompatible polymer blend. |
Robert Ivancic ; Chase Thompson ; Sara Orski ; Debra Audus; |
| 106 | Upcycling of Polypropylene Through Mechano-Chemical Functionalization Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our work here describes the understanding of the combination of thermal, mechanical and chemical degradation of polypropylene to result in functional controlled molecular weight PP moieties to be integrated in upcycling of PP. |
Ramanan Krishnamoorti ; Amy Le; |
| 107 | Modeling PET Solvolysis Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We use order of magnitude analysis to show that the solvolysis of PET is not transport limited – rather the restrictions stem from reaction kinetics, and also from the distribution of loop, tail and train lengths in this semicrystalline morphology. |
Sanat Kumar; |
| 108 | Addressing Plastic Waste Through Novel Upcycling Enabled By Cold-sintering Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we demonstrate a new approach that could incorporate plastic waste into long lifetime durable composites through cold-sintering, which is capable of sintering inorganic materials near 100 degrees Celsius. |
Po-Hao Lai; |
| 109 | Refractory Plasmonic Nanoparticles for Visible Light Mediated Recycling of Epoxy Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have developed a reversible epoxy which can be recycled using visible light. |
Kavon Mojtabai ; Samantha Lindholm ; Brandon McReynolds ; John McCoy ; Youngmin Lee ; Sanchari Chowdhury; |
| 110 | Rapid Structural Classification of Post-Consumer Polyolefins By Multimodal Measurement Correlations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We will outline our approach and present recent results from our effort to develop machine learning tools that leverage the limited chemistry of polyolefins to connect the infrared chemical signature to structural parameters from more time-consuming analytical techniques. |
Shailja Goyal ; Tyler Martin ; Peter Beaucage ; Debra Audus ; Sara Orski; |
| 111 | Modeling Welding of Semicrystalline Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we develop a theoretical framework to explain these processes and solve the governing differential equations numerically. |
Sanat Kumar ; Sabin Adhikari; |
| 112 | Stress-induced Dynamics in Glassy Vitrimers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present a simulation methodology that utilizes coarse-grained molecular dynamics in conjunction with a Monte-Carlo method to capture the bond exchange in vitrimers. |
Alessandro Perego ; Fardin Khabaz; |
| 113 | An Experimental and Computational Study of Thermomechanical Recycling of Flame-Retardant PET Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To address this issue, a series of rheological, thermal, and chemical experiments were performed on various PET/FR compounds containing a DOPO derivative (DOPO-PEPA, shortened DP) or a phosphonate compound (Aflammit PCO 900, shortened AF). |
Jiuke Chen ; Christopher Bascucci ; Rudolf Hufenus ; Ali Gooneie; |
| 114 | Insights Into The Physics of Glass Formation from Simulations of Thin Film Dynamics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We find that the phenomenology of altered thin films dynamics is profoundly at odds with predictions of a number of theories of glass formation. |
David Simmons ; Asieh Ghanekarade; |
| 115 | An Experimental and Modeling Comparison of The Dynamics of Capped and Freestanding Films Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We compare the influence of two different types of interfaces on the segmental dynamics of poly(2-chlorostyrene) (P2ClS): the simple free surface of freestanding films vs. the solid adsorbing surface of Aluminum (Al) capped films. |
Ronald White ; Jane Lipson ; Jijian Song ; Simone Napolitano; |
| 116 | Understanding Fracture Behavior of Brittle Polymeric Glasses Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We attempt to explore the basic concepts of fracture mechanics using polymethyl methacrylate, polystyrene, physically aged polylactic acid and polycarbonate. |
Chaitanya Ramanand Gupta ; Shi-Qing Wang; |
| 117 | Role of Local Structure in The Enhanced Dynamics of Deformed Polymer Glasses Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we performed molecular dynamics simulations for polymer glasses under a series of constant stresses and propose an extension of the Eyring model with a machine-learned structural field, softness. |
Entao Yang ; Robert Riggleman; |
| 118 | Using The TNM Model to Reproduce Reported Anomalous Structural Recovery Data in Light of Temperature Variability in Vacuum Oven-based Experiments Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: , and a second plateau was not reproduced in the work from Koh and Simon [Koh, Y. P., & Simon, S. L. (2013). |
Shuang Jin ; Gregory McKenna; |
| 119 | Glass Transition of Random Heteropolymer Melts Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we use atomistic MD simulations to explore the factors affecting glass transition temperature (T g) of a complex class of RHPs. |
Tianyi Jin ; Shayna Hilburg ; Alfredo Alexander-Katz; |
| 120 | Model for Mechanical Behavior of Glassy Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We propose a new model, where an additional physical mechanism accounting for changes in the packing efficiency is included. |
Grigori Medvedev ; James Caruthers; |
| 121 | The Molecular Weight Dependence of Tg in Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we review and evaluate these theories in the context of experiments on Tg(M) on many polymer chemistries, from monomer to the "infinite" chain limit; these data show a general M-dependence that can be simply related to measures of chain bulkiness and flexibility, and are a challenge to existing theories. |
Peter Olmsted ; Johan Mattsson ; Matthew Reynolds ; Robin Masurel ; Daniel Baker; |
| 122 | Overaging Under Stress in Polymer Glasses? Larger Yield Stress Despite Faster Segmental Dynamics! Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Direct measurements of structural relaxation time using a probe reorientation technique enable us to address this issue. |
Masoud Razavi ; Enran Xing ; Mark Ediger; |
| 123 | Effect of Large Deformation on The Linear Viscoelastic Response of A Glassy Polymer Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We now report that the loading-unloading cycle also significantly changes the viscoelastic spectrum of a PMMA-PBMA co-polymer deformed at Tg-35°C. |
Hosup Song ; James Caruthers; |
| 124 | Study of Sub-Tg Relaxation in Plasticized Polycarbonate with The Quartz Crystal Microbalance Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we discuss the use of the rheometric quartz crystal microbalance (RheoQCM) as a fixed frequency rheometer operating at 15 MHz to study the rheological properties of bisphenol-A polycarbonate (PC) from -30 °C up to 180 °C. |
Qifeng Wang ; Christopher Soles ; Jack Douglas ; Kenneth Shull; |
| 125 | Long-wavelength Fluctuations and Dimensionality Crossover in Confined Liquids Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We develop a Debye model for the density of vibrational states of confined liquid systems and perform extensive numerical simulations. |
Jing Yang; |
| 126 | Acrylic Paints: An Atomistic View of Polymer Structure and Effects of Environmental Pollutants Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Through a multi-scale computational methodology, we aim at a fundamental understanding of these processes in acrylic materials present in contemporary paintings. |
Aysenur Iscen ; Nancy Forero-Martinez ; Omar Valsson ; Kurt Kremer; |
| 127 | Novel Polymer Nanocomposite Structures Created By Nanoparticle Jamming and Polymer Infiltration Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Herein, we discuss two new directions for controlling PNC morphologies and their resultant properties by (1) arresting nanoparticle (NP) dynamics and (2) infiltrating polymer into scaffolds. |
Russell Composto; |
| 128 | Connecting Microscopic Dynamics to Macroscopic Rheology in Dynamic Covalent Composites Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we investigate highly loaded DCCs comprising thiol-coated silica particles dispersed in a fluid matrix of ditopic benzalcyanoacetamide-based Michael acceptors. |
Grayson Jackson ; Joseph Dennis ; Neil Dolinski ; Michael Van der Naald ; Stuart Rowan ; Heinrich Jaeger; |
| 129 | Effect of Extreme Nanoconfinement and Polymer-Nanoparticle Interactions on The Thermodynamics of Polymer Blends in Dense Nanoparticle Packings Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we present a computational study using self-consistent field theory to understand the thermodynamics of highly confined polymer blends in the interstices of NP packings. |
Anastasia Neuman ; Daeyeon Lee ; Robert Riggleman; |
| 130 | Leaching-enabled Capillary Rise Infiltration (LeCaRI) and Lateral Diffusion of Poly(dimethylsiloxane) in Nanoparticle Packings Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We observe that high humidity leads to faster spreading of the polymers within the packings. |
R Bharath Venkatesh ; Daeyeon Lee; |
| 131 | Measuring Nanoparticle Diffusion in Polymer Melts Using ToF-SIMS Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Nanoparticle (NP) dynamics are important for understanding processing of polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) and tuning their membrane, optical, and mechanical properties. Previously, … |
Kaitlin Wang ; Russell Composto ; Karen Winey; |
| 132 | Nanoparticle Avalanches in Filled Rubber Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This research used resources of the Advanced Photon Source, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under Contract No. |
Dillon Presto ; Suresh Narayanan ; Mark Sutton ; Joshua Browns ; Quang Ngo ; Sergio Moctezuma ; Mark Foster; |
| 133 | XPCS Study of Temporal Dynamic Heterogeneity in A Rubber Nanocomposite Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: In situ X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy can be used to characterize the temporal heterogeneity in the dynamics of silica filler movement when a highly filled rubber … |
Mark Foster ; Dillon Presto ; Suresh Narayanan ; Joshua Brown ; Quang Ngo ; Sergio Moctezuma ; Mark Sutton; |
| 134 | Dynamics of Linear Alternating Polymer-nanoparticle Hybrids Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this contribution, we study the influence of supramolecular structures on the structural relaxation and the glass transition of a new type of association polymers, the linear alternating polystyrene (PS)-polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) hybrids (LAPH). |
Shiwang Cheng ; Xue-Hui Dong ; Dongdong Zhou ; Ruikun Sun ; Shalin Patil; |
| 135 | Dynamics of Polymer Nanocomposites at Large Deformation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This work investigates the dynamics and mechanical properties of polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) at large deformation through a combination of small-angle x-ray scattering and rheology. |
Ruikun Sun ; Shiwang Cheng ; Xiaobing Zuo; |
| 136 | Effect of Polymer-Nanoparticle Interaction Strength on Viscoelastic Creep Attenuation in Polymer Nanocomposites Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we examine the creep behavior of silica/poly(2-vinylpyridine) (P2VP) nanocomposites consisting of 13 and 52 nm diameter silica NPs and 200 kg/mol P2VP. |
James Pressly ; Entao Yang ; Eric Bailey ; Tia Denby ; Bharath Natarajan ; Robert Riggleman ; Karen Winey; |
| 137 | Morphology and Dynamics of Ionic Polydimethylsiloxane-Silica Nanocomposites Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We designed ionic polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-silica nanocomposites from (cationic) ammonium-functionalized PDMS and (anionic) sulfonate-functionalized nanosilicas, with the aim of influencing the distribution and dispersion of the nanoparticles. |
Argyrios Karatrantos ; Clement Mugemana ; Ahmad Moghimikheirabadi ; Martin Kröger; |
| 138 | Kinetics of Functional High Density Polymer Nanocomposite Formation By Tuning Enthalpic and Entropic Barriers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we discuss a facile method to prepare polymer grafted nanoparticle (PGNP) based high density functional polymer nanocomposites using thermal activation of a high density PGNP monolayer to overcome entropic or enthalpic barriers to insertion of PGNPs in underlying polymer films. |
Jaydeep Basu ; Aparna Swain ; Nimmi Das Anthuparambil ; Sivasurender Chandran; |
| 139 | New (Macro)molecular Facets of An Old Problem: What Controls The Morphology of Semicrystalline Polymer Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We find that (i) in crystal-fixed polymers, such as PCL, the thickness of the amorphous phase and thus the crystallinity is controlled by entanglements in the amorphous phase, thus excluding a “reeling-in” process [1,4]. |
Kay Saalwaechter ; Thomas Thurn-Albrecht ; Martha Schulz ; Mareen Schaefer ; Zefan Wang ; Albrecht Petzold; |
| 140 | Molecular Dynamics and Phase Separation in Co-crystal of Crystalline/Crystalline Polymer Blend Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we for the first time investigate molecular dynamics and phase structure in the co-crystal consisting of fixed and mobile polymer crystals by solid-state (ss) NMR spectroscopy. |
Navin Kafle ; Ying Zheng ; Toshikazu Miyoshi; |
| 141 | Minima in The Temperature Gradient of The Crystallization Rates of Long-spaced Polyacetals at The Transition Between Two Polymorphs Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Under isothermal crystallization ( T c) from the melt, polyacetals spaced by 12, 18, 19, or 23 methylenes develop up to four layered polymorphs. While the crystallization kinetics … |
Rufina Alamo ; Carlos Germosen ; Stephanie Marxsen; |
| 142 | Understanding The Roles of Molecular Topology and Entanglement in Polymer Crystallization Using Ring Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We investigate the effects of entanglement and molecular topologies on polymer crystallization using atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of cyclic and linear polyethylene (PE). |
Lingyi Zou ; Wenlin Zhang; |
| 143 | Breaking Translational Symmetry in Polymer Crystallization Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The reason for the broken translation symmetry in SSICs can vary, and in this talk, we discuss the chain architecture effect on polymer crystallization. |
Christopher Li ; Mark Staub ; Shiche Yu ; Bin Zhao; |
| 144 | Effect of Precise and Non-precise Linker Length, Backbone Polarity, and Dispersity on Crystallization and Rheological Properties of Dynamic Ethylene Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Precise placement of ionic and non-ionic side groups has been shown to have a strong impact on the crystallization of polyolefins and polyacetals, resulting in unique … |
Bhaskar Soman ; Christopher Evans; |
| 145 | A Boundary Layer Model for Steady Directional Solidification of Polymer Melts Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We analyze a one-directional model for steady-state directional solidification of a polymer melt due to a heat sink moving at constant speed V . |
Sanat Kumar ; Christopher Durning ; Sumesh Thampi ; Ahana Purushothaman ; Sabin Adhikari; |
| 146 | Role of Stress Relaxation in Polymer Crystallization Under Fast Stretching Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We performed dynamic Monte Carlo simulations of stress-induced polymer crystallization and found that stress relaxation mainly plays a kinetic role rather than the expected thermodynamic role. |
Wenbing Hu ; Wen Luo ; Jiping Wang ; Yaqian Guo; |
| 147 | Disclose Atomic Interaction at The Interface Between Polyethylene and The Edge of Monolayer Two-dimensional Materials Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we combine an advance synthesis of two-dimensional (2D) materials (MoSe 2) having well-defined atomic edge configurations and with ab-initio and atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to elucidate how atomic edges interact with polyethylene (HDPE) chains in a dilute solution assembly process. |
Bo Li; |
| 148 | Comparison of PA6 and PA66 Crystallization Using Modified FSC Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: PA66 and PA6 share many comparable properties due to their similar chemical structures. However, their crystallization kinetics differences are not received similar attention as … |
Xiaoshi Zhang ; Evan Quinn ; John Buzinkai ; Alicyn Rhoades; |
| 149 | Crystalline Structure and Thermal Transition of Regioregularity-Controlled Poly(3-dodecylthiophene) Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This study provides an understanding of the RR effect on crystalline structures and thermotropic LC behavior of P3DDTs, allowing for exquisite control over their self-assembly and optoelectrical properties. |
Hyeonjung Park ; Moon Jong Han ; Youngkwon Kim ; Eun Ji Kim ; Hyeong Jun Kim ; Dong Ki Yoon ; Bumjoon Kim; |
| 150 | Sensing The Melting Transition of Semicrystalline Polymers Via A Novel Fluorescence Technique Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we have developed a new, simple, and versatile fluorescence technique for probing the melting transitions of semicrystalline thermoplastics. |
Kailong Jin; |
| 151 | Multi-functional Soft Robotic Structure Via Combination of Origami and Kirigami Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we present a highly deformable structure by operating both folds (origami) and cuts (kirigami) on a two-dimensional tessellated sheet. |
Ganguk Lee ; Ho-Young Kim; |
| 152 | Training Capacity of Viscoelastic Materials and Failure Through A Dynamical Transition Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our work explains how the presence of an exotic critical point affects the convergence of training, and may be relevant to understanding learning in physical systems. |
Daniel Hexner; |
| 153 | Irreversible Deformation of Architected Structures Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we introduce the use of irreversible plastic deformation as a means to hold the target shape. |
Victor Charpentier ; Stephane Bourgeois ; Joel Marthelot; |
| 154 | Fabric Based Flexible Gripper Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We focus on V-shaped tubes with sharp corners that deform so that the initial angle between the arms decreases upon inflation, acting as a hinge-like mechanism. |
Joel Marthelot ; Ignacio Andrade-Silva; |
| 155 | Magnetic Handshake Polymers with Designable Properties Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: By controlling the bending energy between adjacent panels of these systems, we can understand the physical shape of a strand, predict its persistence length behavior, and even gain selective control of the strands or get the strands to exhibit long range order via the addition of an external magnetic field. |
Hanyu Alice Zhang ; Chrisy Xiyu Du ; Tanner Pearson ; Conrad Smart ; Zexi Liang ; Michael Brenner ; Paul McEuen ; Itai Cohen; |
| 156 | Think Big: Overcoming Gravity in Large Scale Shape Morphing Structures Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we present preliminary results obtained in identifying strategies to overcome the aforementioned challenges. |
Lauren Dreier ; Trevor Jones ; Andrej Kosmrlj ; Pierre-Thomas Brun; |
| 157 | Micrometer-sized, Electrically Morphing Metamaterial-robots (MetaBots) Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we demonstrate electrically programmable, micrometer-sized metamaterial-based robots (MetaBots) that could form three-dimensional (3D) surfaces from two-dimensional patterns, cycle among different shapes, and locomote in a biocompatible solvent. |
Qingkun Liu ; Wei Wang ; Himani Sinhmar ; Itay Griniasty ; Michael Reynolds ; Hadas Kress-Gazit ; Paul McEuen ; Itai Cohen; |
| 158 | Shape Morphing from Instability and Frustration Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we present a new type of shape morphing method that can be achieved by the use of periodic structures. |
Xiaofei Guo ; Corentin Coulais; |
| 159 | Designing Oscillation Using Magnetic Handshake Materials Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we show how to achieve such multi-state oscillation in self-assembling structures made up of Magnetic Handshake Material building blocks. |
Chrisy Xiyu Du ; Ella King ; Paul McEuen ; Itai Cohen ; Michael Brenner; |
| 160 | Continuum Theory and Deformation Control in Origami Metamaterials Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our approach, which we confirm in a variety of loading simulations, closes a gap between current theory and tangible origami sheet behavior, while also revealing rich new possibilities for the precise control of deformation via boundary actuation. |
Michael Czajkowski ; James McInerney ; Andrew Wu ; Zeb Rocklin; |
| 161 | Mapping Actuation Pathways in Morphing Origami Structures Via Graph Analysis Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we use stochastic search and gradient-based optimization to map out the stable states of the origami structure; and use minimum energy path methods to characterize the folding paths between states (i.e. actuation paths). |
Philip Buskohl ; Matthew Grasinger ; Andrew Gillman; |
| 162 | Global Inverse Design of Anisotropiclly Deforming Sheets Using Curve Defects Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Smooth solutions to the inverse design problem develop singularities within a finite distance, preventing them from covering as simple a surface as a sphere. |
Itay Griniasty ; James Sethna ; Itai Cohen; |
| 163 | Topology Mechanics in Axially Periodic Trusses Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we discuss how such trusses can be programmed to exhibit topologically protected boundary and interface ZMs and states of self stress (SSSs), which might be used to amplify mechanical response or localize stress, when the number of constraints matches the number of degrees of freedom. |
James McInerney ; Xiaoming Mao; |
| 164 | Light-driven Liquid Crystal Elastomer Kirigami: Fluttering with Splay and Topology Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In the spirit of kirigami (the japanese art of cutting paper), we investigate samples custom-cut to specific geometries and their corresponding out-of-plane actuation driven by light. |
Vianney Gimenez-Pinto ; Juan Chen ; Jinghua Jiang ; Chenhui Peng; |
| 165 | A Simple Method to Reprogram The Binding Specificity of DNA-coated Colloids That Crystallize Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we introduce a method to convert generic DNA-coated colloids into building blocks with user-specified DNA sequences by appending new DNA domains onto the DNA grafted onto the colloid. |
Pepijn Moerman ; Thomas Videbaek ; Huang Fang ; William Rogers ; Rebecca Schulman; |
| 166 | Active DNA Hydrogels Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, I will describe our combined experimental and computational work in designing and characterising generic active DNA hydrogels. |
Yair Augusto Gutierrez Fosado ; Giorgia Palombo ; Davide Michieletto; |
| 167 | 2D Auxetic DNA Origami: Mechanics, Deformation Behaviors and Design Recommendations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we demonstrated architectured 2D auxetic metastructures using DNA origami, a bottom-up self-assembly method. |
Jong Hyun Choi ; Ruixin Li; |
| 168 | Exploring The Effect of The Number of Arms and Junction Bases on DNA Nanostar Conformation Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To better understand how nanostar design affects the accessibility of those bonds, we used oxDNA2, a coarse-grained, molecular dynamics model of DNA, to simulate nanostars with different numbers of arms (3-6) and unpaired bases per arm in the junction (0-10). |
DUANYANG WANG ; Deborah Fygenson; |
| 169 | Mechanistic Model Study of Surface Based DNA Walkers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we introduce a comprehensive model for an enzyme-powered DNA walker that moves autonomously on 2D surfaces. |
Jong Hyun Choi ; Yancheng Du ; Jing Pan; |
| 170 | Assembly Kinetics of Synthetic Capsids Made from DNA Origami Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: With the knowledge thus gained, we aim to realize assembly of various artificial capsids with optimized yield and reaction time. |
Wei-Shao Wei ; Anthony Trubiano ; Christian Sigl ; Hendrik Dietz ; Michael Hagan ; Seth Fraden; |
| 171 | Simulation Study of The Emergence of Valency in Colloidal Crystals Using DNA-functionalized Particles Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this presentation, we introduce a simulation study of an approach to generating various low symmetry and complex colloidal crystals based upon programmable atom equivalents (PAE, nanoparticles functionalized with many DNA strands) and mobile electron equivalents (EE, small particles functionalized with a low number of DNA strands complementary to the PAEs). |
Sangmin Lee ; Sharon Glotzer; |
| 172 | Probing Nanoscale Interactions Between DNA-coated Colloids Using Total Internal Reflection Microscopy Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our work identifies a subtle competition between DNA binding and steric repulsion and accurately predicts adhesion and melting at a molecular level. |
Fan Cui ; Sophie Marbach ; Jeana Zheng ; Miranda Holmes-Cerfon ; David Pine; |
| 173 | "Flexible Hinge" Dynamics in Mismatched DNA Revealed By Fluorescence Lifetime and Correlation Spectroscopy Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We investigated the dynamics of DNA oligomers containing 3-bp mismatched sites specifically recognized in vitro by NER protein Rad4. |
Timour Ten ; Manas Sarangi ; Serguei Kuznetsov ; Anjum Ansari; |
| 174 | Measurements of DNA Binding Kinetics with High-Performance Electronics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The results demonstrate a rapid and label-free approach to measuring DNA hybridization kinetics. |
Arvind Balijepalli ; Jacob Majikes ; Seulki Cho ; James Liddle; |
| 175 | Characterizing The Impact of Abasic Sites on Sequence-Dependent DNA Duplex Dehybridization with Temperature-Jump IR Spectroscopy and Coarse-Grained Molecular Simulation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Overall, our results provide insight into the contribution of single specific nucleobases to the global process of duplex (de)hybridization. |
Brennan Ashwood ; Mike Jones ; Andrew Ferguson ; Andrei Tokmakoff; |
| 176 | Effect of Monovalent and Divalent Ionic Environments on The In-lattice Nanoparticle-grafted Single-stranded DNA Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our work investigates, using in-situ small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS), the morphology of PEs (single-stranded DNA) chains grafted onto a surface of spherical gold nanoparticles assembled in a lattice in the presence of monovalent and divalent salts. |
Anuj Chhabra ; Sunita Srivastava ; Oleg Gang; |
| 177 | Computational Modelling and Single-molecule Rotor Bead Study of DNA Plectoneme Pinning in The Presence of Base-pair Mismatches Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We use MD simulations and single-molecule rotor bead assay to study the effect of mismatches on DNA supercoiling. |
Parth Rakesh Desai ; Adam Fineberg ; Yeonee Seol ; Haksung Jung ; Siddhartha Das ; Keir Neuman; |
| 178 | Colloidal Valence As Thermodynamic Equilibrium States Predicted By Molecular and Surface Properties Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We identify guidelines for choices of binder molecules and droplets leading to efficient valence control. |
Sascha Hilgenfeldt ; Angus McMullen ; Jasna Brujic; |
| 179 | Role of Backbone Versus Catechol Hydrophobicity in Removing Interfacial Water Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we perform molecular dynamics simulations of catechol based underwater adhesives on self-assembled monolayers and metal oxide surfaces. |
Abdol Hadi Mokarizadeh ; Nityanshu Kumar ; Abraham Joy ; Ali Dhinojwala ; Mesfin Tsige; |
| 180 | Soft, Coarse-grained Modelling of Self-assembling Polymer Ink Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We model the experimental technique of printing nano-meter-sized polymer droplets onto a prefabricated substrate to direct and validate the efforts of our experimental collaborators. |
Ludwig Schneider ; Juan De Pablo; |
| 181 | Multi-functional Fin Texture Controlled By Dynamic Elastocapillary Effect Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We design reconfigurable surface textures consisting of fins with polymorphic self-assembly mode shapes controlled by dynamic fluid drainage. |
Yun Seong Kim ; Jonghyun Ha ; Jonghyun Hwang ; Sze Chai Leung ; Sameh Tawfick; |
| 182 | Elastocapillarity and Swelling of Cooked Pasta Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Considering the diffusion dynamics within the pasta, we developed the theoretical model that treats the pasta as a hard core-soft shell structure to predict the stick length at various cooking times, which is corroborated with experimental results. |
Jonghyun Hwang ; Jonghyun Ha ; Ryan Siu ; Yun Seong Kim ; Sameh Tawfick; |
| 183 | Critical Packing Density of Water-Mediated Nonstick Self-Assembled Monolayer Coatings Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we study how would the water-mediated SAM-calcite interactions change with different SAM coating densities. |
Hsieh Chen; |
| 184 | Attractive Forces Slow Contact Formation Between The Deformable Bodies Underwater Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We find the exponential rate of water evacuation from hydrophobic–hydrophobic (adhesive) surfaces is 3 orders of magnitude smaller than that from hydrophobic–hydrophilic (non-adhesive) contact. |
Mengyue Sun ; Nityanshu Kumar ; Ali Dhinojwala ; Hunter King; |
| 185 | A Modular 90° Test Configuration for Measuring Tape Adhesion on Immovable Substrates Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have performed tape rate (0.05-10.0 mm/s) and width (6.35-25.40 mm) qualification experiments with transparent office tape to validate the methodology. |
Jared Gohl ; Trevor Thiele-Sardina ; Mitchell Rencheck ; Kendra Erk ; Chelsea Davis; |
| 186 | Elastocapillary Kirigami Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Within this framework, we classify the critical behaviour of linear-cut kirigami over a fluid substrate with respect to symmetry considerations at the level of the unit cell. |
Marcelo A. Dias ; Souhayl Sadik; |
| 187 | Contact of Soft Solids on Rigid Substrates Mediated By Air Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Using direct imaging of the interface with sub-micron resolution in our experiments, and varying the impactor’s stiffness and geometry, we show how the progressing deformation front of the soft impactor can exceed the Rayleigh velocity of the impactor to fundamentally alter the contact dynamics. |
John Kolinski; |
| 188 | Delamination of Open Cylindrical Shells from Soft and Adhesive Winkler’s Foundation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We investigate the equilibrium configuration of an open cylindrical shell with natural curvature κ and bending modulus B, that is adhered to a soft and adhesive foundation with stiffness K. |
Oz Oshri; |
| 189 | Multiscale Soft Surface Instabilities for Adhesion Enhancement Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we have demonstrated an easy and cheap method to create crease instabilities on ultra-soft PDMS (modulus ~ few kPa) by the constrained swelling in Toluene. |
VAISAKH M ; Qin Xu ; Ho Yi Lydia Mak ; Nishan Gurung; |
| 190 | SURFACE GRAFTED POLY(IONIC LIQUID) THAT LUBRICATES IN BOTH NON-POLAR AND POLAR SOLVENTS Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Following a series of studies concerning the tribological characteristics of polyzwitterionic brushes [1-4], we show that 1- n-butyl-3-vinyl imidazolium bromide based poly(ionic liquids) (PIL) samples is able to reduce the interfacial friction by up to 66% and 42% in both non-polar (dodecane) and polar (water) solvents respectively [5]. |
Zhenyu Zhang ; David Burgess ; Nicole Rosik ; Peter Fryer ; Na Li ; Ian McRobbie ; Haining Zhang; |
| 191 | Soft Coring: How to Get A Clarinet Out of A Flute? Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Assembling contributions from fracture mechanics, large deformation theory and friction, we build a simple yet quantitative understanding of the observed shapes and dynamometrics. |
Frederic Lechenault ; Matteo Ciccotti; |
| 192 | Robust and Tough Wet Adhesives Based on Polyelectrolyte Complex Hydrogels Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, I will discuss our progress in developing robust wet adhesives based on polyelectrolyte complex-interpenetrating network (PEC-IPN) hydrogels. |
Samanvaya Srivastava ; Defu Li ; Tobias Göckler; |
| 193 | Influence of Divalent Ions on Composition and Viscoelasticity of Polyelectrolyte Complexes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this presentation, significant impact of salt cation valency on the composition, ion partitioning, and viscoelasticity of charge-matched PECs will be discussed. |
Divya Iyer ; Vaqar Syed ; Samanvaya Srivastava; |
| 194 | Relaxation Times of Solid-like Polyelectrolyte Complexes of Varying PH and Water Content Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we describe the dynamic mechanical behavior of solid-like PECs containing weak PEs poly(allylamine hydrochloride) (PAH) and poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) at varying complexation pH, relative humidity, and temperature with support from molecular dynamics simulations. |
Suvesh lalwani ; Piotr Batys; |
| 195 | Polyelectrolyte Complexation in Brushes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Anionic polystyrene sulfonate (PSS) chains were grafted from mica surfaces to create dense brushes for use in surface force (SFA) measurements. These surfaces were mounted in the … |
Matthew Tirrell ; Dean Mastropietro; |
| 196 | Brushing Up on Coacervates: How Chain Anchoring Can Incorporate Solid Particles Into Fluid Polyelectrolyte Complexes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We find that without sufficient bound chains, aggregates rather than a complex coacervate is formed. |
Maria Santore ; Sarah Perry ; MIngjun Zhou; |
| 197 | Computational Study of Isotropic-to-Nematic Transition in Salt-Free Coacervates Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our work uses molecular dynamics simulations to demonstrate the existence of the isotropic-to-nematic transition in salt-free coacervates as the stiffness of the semiflexible chains increases. |
Boyuan Yu ; Heyi Liang ; Artem Rumyantsev ; Juan De Pablo; |
| 198 | Effect of Charged Block Length Mismatch in Double Diblock Polyelectrolyte Complex Micelles Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In our work, we explore the role of charged block length mismatch in PCMs through a series of model diblocks with a wide range of block asymmetries. |
Kaden Stevens ; Alexander Marras ; Trinity Campagna ; Matthew Tirrell; |
| 199 | Molecular Design of Oligonucleotide Polyelectrolyte Complex Micelles Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: A solution to this critical problem is using hydrophilic charged block polymers to condense nucleic acids, driving nanoscale phase separation to form polyelectrolyte complex micelles (PCMs). |
Alexander Marras ; Jeffrey Vieregg ; Matthew Tirrell; |
| 200 | Stable Membraneless Complex Coacervate Microdroplets Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this presentation, we will demonstrate our progress on stabilization of complex coacervate microdroplets composed of oppositely charged homopolyelectrolytes by addition of anionic comb polyelectrolytes. |
Advait Holkar ; Samanvaya Srivastava ; Shang Gao ; Kathleen Villasenor; |
| 201 | Multiphase Complex Coacervate Droplets from Two-Polyelectrolyte Systems Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we report formation of protocell-like core-shell coacervates formed in a two-polyelectrolyte system, in cases of extreme non-stoichiometric mixing of the polyanion and polycation. |
Chelsea Edwards ; Ginny Wang ; Morgan Bates ; Matthew Helgeson; |
| 202 | Molecular Exchange Kinetics in Complex Coacervate Core Micelles: Role of Associative Interaction Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we investigated the equilibrium exchange dynamics between C3Ms characterized by time-resolved small-angle neutron scattering (TR-SANS) measurement. |
Taeyoung Heo ; Sojeong Kim ; Liwen Chen ; Anna Sokolova ; Moonchul Ryu ; Sangwoo Lee ; SooHyung Choi; |
| 203 | Local Segmental Dynamics of Polyelectrolyte in Complex Coacervates Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, the segmental dynamics of CC are revealed as a function of salt concentration by quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS). |
Sojeong Kim ; Nicolas DE Souza ; Wonbo Lee ; SooHyung Choi; |
| 204 | Self-ordering in A 2D Two-component System Modelling The Behavior of A Mixture of Two Oppositely Charged Polyelectrolytes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: A possible self-ordering mechanism in a mixture solution of two oppositely charged polyelectrolytes, is discussed. In the case of strongly charged polyelectrolytes, the … |
Arkadii Arinshtein; |
| 205 | Towards A Realistic Description of H3O+ and OH- Transport Through Confined Environments Using Machine Learning and An Order-N Framework for Condensed-Phase Hybrid Density Functional Theory Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we use this approach to generate high-quality training data at the dispersion-inclusive hybrid DFT level for training a reactive machine-learned potential to study how confinement affects the diffusion of H 3O+(aq) and OH-(aq) at experimentally relevant length and time scales. |
Robert Distasio; |
| 206 | Fueling A Data-Driven Machine Learning Model for H3O+ and OH- Transport Through Confined Aqueous Environments: A High-Throughput Order-N Framework for Condensed-Phase Hybrid Density Functional Theory at Work Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To overcome this limitation, we have developed a highly accurate linear-scaling (order- N) approach for treating finite-gap (homogeneous and heterogeneous) systems without system-dependent parameters. |
Hsin-Yu Ko ; Marcos Calegari Andrade ; Zachary Sparrow ; Brian Ernst ; Jalen Harris ; Robert Distasio; |
| 207 | Optimization and Performance of RMG DFT-based Electronic Structure Software on Exascale Architectures Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The RMG software package for electronic structure calculations has been optimized for pre-exascale machines such as Summit at ORNL, and we describe the work being done to port RMG to exascale-class machines. |
Emil Briggs ; Wenchang Lu ; Jerry Bernholc; |
| 208 | CPU-GPU Optimization and Performance of RMG Linear-scaling Module with Optimally Localized Orbitals Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: For GPU acceleration, we implemented explicit memory management for multiple GPUs and CPU cores per node, which can be easily adapted to either CUDA (Nvidia) or HIP (AMD) programming environment. |
Wenchang Lu ; Emil Briggs ; Jerry Bernholc; |
| 209 | Large-Scale Materials Science Codes Porting Strategies for Next Generation Exascale Architectures Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we will focus on our experiences navigating this portability effort for the BerkeleyGW software package. |
Mauro Del Ben ; Steven Louie ; Jack Deslippe; |
| 210 | GPU-Acceleration of Large-Scale Full-Frequency GW Calculations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present a GPU acceleration study of the full-frequency GW method for periodic systems, as implemented in the WEST code [http://west-code.org]. |
Victor Yu ; Marco Govoni; |
| 211 | QMCPACK Performance Portability on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We show current performance for materials calculations on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs with a broad range of electron counts and analyze the remaining inefficiencies. |
Ye Luo ; Peter Doak ; Paul Kent; |
| 212 | Using High Accuracy Many-body Methods (QMC and SCI) to Describe Ground State and Excited State Properties of Strongly Correlated Battery Cathodes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk we use a combination of Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) and select Configuration Interaction (sCI) for solids to describe the orbitals of LiCoO$_2$, leading to a better description of the band gaps of strongly correlated transition metal oxide materials and open the path to more reliable and trial-wavefunction invariant DMC calculations. |
Anouar Benali ; kevin gasperich ; Tomas Rojas ; Vijay Singh ; Pallab Barai ; Anh Ngo ; Hyeondeok Shin; |
| 213 | Forces, Stresses and Related Properties in Solids By Plane-wave Auxiliary-field Quantum Monte Carlo Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present accurate calculations of interatomic force and stress in solid state systems, using the plane-wave auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (PW-AFQMC) method [1] . |
Siyuan Chen ; Fengjie Ma ; Shiwei Zhang; |
| 214 | Ab Initio Calculations in Atoms, Molecules, and Solids, Treating Spin-Orbit Coupling and Electron Interaction on Equal Footing Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have incorporated explicit, non-perturbative treatment of spin-orbit coupling into ab initio auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) calculations. |
Brandon Eskridge ; Henry Krakauer ; Hao Shi ; Shiwei Zhang; |
| 215 | Electronic Structure Calculations at Finite Temperature Using The Piecewise Interaction Picture Density Matrix Quantum Monte Carlo Approach Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we present a modification to the propagator in density matrix quantum Monte Carlo methods (DMQMC) which is a method to sample the N-body density matrix for an electronic Hamiltonian. |
William Van Benschoten ; James Shepherd; |
| 216 | Rapid Generation of Optimal Generalized Monkhorst-Pack Grids Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present these algorithms and several software tools in which they are implemented, including a C++ library with a Python interface designed for integration with third-party software packages. |
Yunzhe Wang ; Pandu Wisesa ; Adarsh Balasubramanian ; Shyam Dwaraknath ; Tim Mueller; |
| 217 | Multiblock Copolymers for Compatibilizing and Recycling PET and PE Mixed Waste Streams Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we successfully developed PET-PE multiblock copolymer (MBCP) compatibilizers, which can be used as both adhesive layers in-between PET/PE multilayer films and compatibilizers for recycling PET and PE mixed waste streams. |
Christopher Ellison ; Kevin Miller ; Xiayu Peng ; Keiichiro Nomura ; Kailong Jin ; HeeJoong Kim ; Abigail Bratton ; Christopher Bond ; Amelia Broman ; Hanim Kim; |
| 218 | Characterization of Degraded and Model Post-Consumer Resins to Support Emerging Metrology Needs in Materials Sustainability and End of Life Concerns Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This talk will highlight efforts to make systematically varied families of model polyolefin compatibilizers and the subsequent characterization of branching content and chain conformation via high temperature size exclusion chromatography. |
Sara Orski; |
| 219 | Molecular Engineering in Four Dimensions: A Mechanistic Approach to Reprocessable Elastomers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We find that stiffness and stress relaxation rate can be decoupled and independently modulated by synthetically tuning the cross-linker and prepolymer backbone, respectively. |
Julia Kalow; |
| 220 | Plastics Recycling, Upcycling, and Redesign in The BOTTLE Consortium Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This talk will introduce the BOTTLE Consortium and present several research highlights from our efforts to date including: 1) Catalytic hydrogenation of polyolefins; 2) Enzymatic hydrolysis of PET; 3) Upcycling PET monomers into new high-performance thermosets; 4) Circular, biodegradable Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs). |
Katrina Knauer; |
| 221 | NEXT GENERATION 3D PRINTING RESINS DERIVED FROM RENEWABLE RESOURCES Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Vinyl ester resins (VERs) are used to produce polymeric materials for a variety of commercial and military applications due to their relatively high strengths, moduli, thermal … |
Joe Stanzione; |
| 222 | Dynamic Phase Transitions in Polyelectrolyte Gels Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, I present a novel phase-field model of a polyelectrolyte gel that can be used to explore the evolution of the gel structure during the volume phase transition. |
Matthew Hennessy ; Giulia Celora ; Andreas Münch ; Sarah Waters ; Barbara Wagner; |
| 223 | Constraint Release in Entangled Liquid Coacervates Made from Oppositely Charged Polyelectrolytes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we develop a scaling model to predict the effects of constraint release on entangled asymmetric coacervates, where the low and high charge density polymers have different conformations. |
Christian Aponte-Rivera ; Michael Rubinstein; |
| 224 | Ising Density Functional Theory for The Charge Regulation of Weak Polyelectrolytes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We report a theoretical framework for weak polyelectrolytes by combining the polymer density functional theory with the Ising model for charge regulation. |
Alejandro Gallegos; |
| 225 | Tunable Ion-containing Polymers from The Facile Copolymerization of Functional Polyethers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we demonstrate a tunable polymer platform from the facile copolymer of functional epoxides that allows for control over each of these parameters independently. |
Gouree Kumbhar ; Robert Ferrier ; Sarah Fisher; |
| 226 | Analysis of Dielectric Constant and Solvation Energy in Coarse-Grained Polymerized Ionic Liquid Simulation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: By varying ionic charge we analyze the dielectric constant, dipolar orientational order and correlation, and compare simulated solvation energy with the expected Born Solvation energy. |
Cameron Shock ; Amalie Frischknecht ; Mark Stevens ; Issei Nakamura; |
| 227 | Overlap Concentration of Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate in Solution Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: The overlap concentration c* of sodium polystyrene sulfonate in water is calculated using multichain atomistic and coarse grained (CG) simulations for a range of chain lengths. … |
Mark Stevens ; Bryce Thurston ; Gary Grest; |
| 228 | Impact of Sulfonation Degree and Nanoparticle Surface Chemistry on Ion Selectivity in Sulfonated Ionomer Nanocomposites Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, a series of sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone) (SPEEK) membranes were fabricated and the water and vanadium ion transport properties of the membranes were characterized. |
Xueting Wang ; Eric Davis ; Stephen Creager Creager ; Mayura Silva; |
| 229 | High Li+ Conduction and Selectivity in Polymeric Ionic Liquid Electrolyte Complexes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We demonstrate that since solvent-free PECs can dissolve very high quantities of salt, they possess high ionic conductivity. |
Shuyi Xie ; Rachel Segalman ; Eiko Ino; |
| 230 | Tapered Block Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium-ion Batteries: Enhancement of Ion Transport Through The Tuning of Intra-domain Structure Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we studied how the tuning of monomer segment and ion distributions (i.e., intra-domain structure) imparted enhanced ion transport in nanostructured polystyrene‑ block‑poly( oligo-oxyethylene methacrylate) (PS- b-POEM) TBP electrolytes through a combination of X-ray reflectometry experiments and coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations that included strong ion solvation effects. |
Priyanka Ketkar ; Kuan-Hsuan Shen ; Mengdi Fan ; Lisa Hall ; Thomas Epps; |
| 231 | Orthogonal Phase Behavior in Polyzwitterionic Coacervate Systems Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we experimentally characterize the liquid-liquid phase separation of a system composed of polyzwitterions and polyelectrolytes. |
Khatcher Margossian ; Murugappan Muthukumar; |
| 232 | Modelling Coacervation in Polyelectrolyte – Surfactant Micelle Solutions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we use self-consistent field theory (SCFT) to model the thermodynamics of solutions containing worm-like surfactant-micelles interacting with oppositely-charged homopolyelectrolytes. |
Jason Madinya ; Charles Sing; |
| 233 | Dynamics of Star Polyelectrolytes in Multilayer Assemblies Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We report on the effect of the molecular architecture of poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) on its diffusion within electrostatic layer-by-layer (LbL) films with poly(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate) (PDMAEMA) at low pH. Ellipsometry measurements with dry films and films exposed to aqueous solutions both indicated faster mobility of star PAA. |
Aliaksei Aliakseyeu ; John Ankner ; Svetlana Sukhishvili; |
| 234 | Wetting and Contact Angles of Complex Coacervates Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we present the wetting behavior of coacervates using a mean-field theory. |
Christopher Balzer ; Pengfei Zhang ; Zhen-Gang Wang; |
| 235 | Seven Simple Dynamic Covalent Chemistries to Transform Thermosets Into Thermoplastics: Sustainable Chemical Recycling of Traditionally Non-Recyclable Materials Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Unique to our research group, we have developed three approaches for melt-state reprocessing of addition-type polymer networks and network composites, including those synthesized directly from monomers containing carbon-carbon double bonds and those synthesized from combined polymer and monomer with both containing carbon-carbon double bonds. |
John Torkelson; |
| 236 | A High-Throughput Approach to Chemically Recyclable Polyolefins Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This presentation will detail our studies into the design of polyolefin-like polymers that can be broken down into macromonomers and re-polymerized through the incorporation of chemically-labile chemistries. |
Benjamin Rawe ; Stuart Rowan ; David Kaplan ; Massimiliano Delferro; |
| 237 | Thermophysical Property Prediction of Polyethylene-like Materials and Their Blends Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we propose a workflow to understand and predict thermophysical properties of PE-like materials and their blends using supervised Machine Learning (ML) techniques. |
Maria Ley-Flores ; Chuting Deng ; Riccardo Alessandri ; Juan De Pablo; |
| 238 | Sustainably Sourced Discrete Macromolecule Design in Materials Science Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Motivated by these opportunities and the need for sequence-control and structural diversity in polymeric materials research, I will present a versatile strategy for the assembly of sustainable cross-linkable sequence-defined macromolecules. |
Christopher Alabi; |
| 239 | Strengthening Protein-based Materials Through Protein Self-assembly and Processing Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we found that the mechanical properties of subsequent materials can be greatly improved by controlling the unfolding-assembly process of proteins, i.e. the reordering of the "hard block". |
Yiping Cao ; Bradley Olsen; |
| 240 | Sustainable Thermoplastic Elastomers with Ionic Interactions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) are ABA triblock copolymers, in which A represents glassy end-blocks and B a rubbery midblock. Commercial TPEs are derived from petroleum whose … |
Josiah Hanson ; Megan Robertson; |
| 241 | Bio-based Composites of Poly(ethylene Glycol)-grafted Cellulose Nanocrystals in Poly(lactic Acid) Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we use poly(ethylene glycol)-grafted CNCs to analyze the effects of polymer molecular weight and grafting density on the properties of poly(lactic acid) (PLA) composites and develop structure/properties relationships help to inform future sustainable polymer composite design. |
Nicholas Macke ; Christina Hemmingsen ; Stuart Rowan; |
| 242 | Swelling Behavior of Sustainable Chitosan/Graphene Oxide Nanocomposite Ultrathin Films Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Humidity sensors play an essential role in monitoring product quality in the manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries. Lately, the use of thermoplastic polymers and inorganic … |
Wafa Tonny ; Mohammad Tuhin ; Ali Ammar ; Venkatesh Balan ; Megan Robertson ; Alamgir Karim; |
| 243 | Star-to-Bottlebrush Transitional Behavior of Model Graft Polymers in Fast Extensional Flows Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We report the synthesis and rheological characterization of poly((±)-lactide) with a graft molecular architecture with the goal of creating melt strain hardening to improve the melt strength. |
Aristotelis Zografos ; Helena All ; Marc Hillmyer ; Frank Bates; |
| 244 | Atomistic Simulations on Mechanical Properties of Lignin Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Mechanical properties of lignin, an aromatic heteropolymer constituting 20%-30% of plant biomass, are important to the fabrication and processing of lignin-based sustainable … |
Siteng Zhang ; Michael Shimizu ; Yishayah Bension ; Ting Ge; |
| 245 | Investigating The Effect of Co-solvent Pretreatment on Acid-Based Hydrolysis of Cellulose for Biofuels Through Molecular Dynamics Simulations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we perform all-atom replica- exchange umbrella sampling (REUS) simulations of an 18-chain cellulose fibril with degree of polymerization (DP) = 20, and a hydrolyzed cellobiose unit at the reducing end of one of the chains, in two solvent systems: (1) 1:1 THF: H 2O by volume and (2) H 2O at 298 K and 423 K. |
Shalini Jayaraman Rukmani ; Micholas Smith ; Josh Vermaas ; Jeremy Smith ; Loukas Petridis; |
| 246 | Fabrication and Characterization of Lignin-Based, Thermo-Responsive Soft Composite Materials Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we fabricated two series of soft composites containing lignin, PNIPAm, and poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) with mass ratios of 1:1:1 and 2:2:1 (lignin:PNIPAm:PVA). |
Missoury Lytle ; Emily Miller ; Katarina Keppler ; Graham Tindall ; Mark Thies ; Eric Davis; |
| 247 | Spinnability and Rheology of PEO Solutions in Water/Acetonitrile Mixtures Via Centrifugal Force Spinning Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this contribution, we investigate the influence of polymer concentration and solvent properties on the centrifugal spinning process and fiber morphology. |
Cheryl Slykas ; Jorgo Merchiers ; Carina Martinez ; Naveen Reddy ; Vivek Sharma; |
| 248 | Influences of "Bonded" and "Unbonded" Monomers on Glass Transition Temperatures in Amorphous Polymer/POSS Composites Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this presentation, further implications about the different POSS composites will be discussed. |
Reika Katsumata ; Walter Young; |
| 249 | Additive Size Controls The Temperature-Dependence of Relaxation in Bulk Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We consider two scenarios for the interactions between the additive and polymer. |
Thomas McKenzie-Smith; |
| 250 | Dynamic Mechanical Behaviors of Nacre-Inspired Graphene-Polymer Nanocomposites Depending on Internal Nanostructures Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This study investigates the dynamic mechanical behaviors of nacre-inspired layered nanocomposite films using a model system that comprises alternating multi-layer graphene (MLG) and polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) phases. |
Zhaoxu Meng ; Cho-Chun Chiang ; Jane Breslin ; Zhangke Yang; |
| 251 | Deformation of Free-Standing Polymer Nanocomposite Thin Films Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We discuss combining bulge tests with laser scanning confocal microscopy to obtain the 3D profile of bulged films. |
Jelani Hannah; |
| 252 | Particle Dynamics and Rheology of Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticle Composites with Chemical Heterogeneities Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We investigate the effect of chemical heterogeneities and architectures of interfacial chains on mechanical properties of polymer nanocomposites. |
Di Wu ; Pinar Akcora; |
| 253 | The Transition to Linear-nonlinear Dichotomy in Rheological Responses Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We found there is a transition to linear-nonlinear dichotomy in the theological responses of these materials at a critical polymer concentration, which is insensitive to strain amplitude, G’/G’0, and filler loading, but very sensitive to the particle size. |
Xiaorong Wang; |
| 254 | Dispersion of Modified Fumed Silica in Elastomeric Nanocomposites Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In the present study, flame synthesized fumed silica with sufficient surface carbon monolayers mitigate the charge repulsion due to silanol moieties, removing aggregate correlations . |
Ugochukwu Okoli ; Kabir Rishi ; Greg Beaucage ; Hendrik Kammler ; Alex McGlasson ; Michael Chauby ; Vishak Narayanan ; James Grammens; |
| 255 | Mechanical Dissipation in Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticle Assemblies Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Herein, we will discuss recent experiments and simulations to understand the impact of PGN design on entanglements among adjacent neighbors, and the subsequent impact on plasticity and failure at low and extreme deformation rates. |
Richard Vaia; |
| 256 | Nanostructure Heterogeneity and The Excess Free Volumes in Polymer-grafted Nanoparticle Membranes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Based on these, we present remarkable correlated trends between the standard deviations of these nanostructure distributions and gas permeability enhancements. |
Sophia Chan ; Masafumi Fukuto ; Kevin Yager ; Marcus Noack ; Guillaume Freychet ; Yucheng Huang ; Brian Benicewicz ; Sanat Kumar; |
| 257 | Molecular Weight Dispersity As Design Parameter to Enable Brush Particle Hybrid Materials with Enhanced Fracture Toughness and Inorganic Content Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This contribution will present brush chain dispersity as a viable ‘design parameter’ that enables the mutual enhancement of Young’s modulus and fracture toughness, while also facilitating increased inorganic loading. |
Ayesha Abdullah ; Jaejun Lee ; Yuqi Zhao ; Zongyu Wang ; Michael Bockstaller; |
| 258 | Strain Energy Density Based Effective Potential for Polymer Grafted Spherical Nanoparticles Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To overcome this issue, we have developed a strategy to convert the strain energy density obtained from coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CG-MD) simulations to the form of an effective interparticle potential. |
Subhadeep Pal ; Sinan Keten; |
| 259 | Role of Solvent-quality in The Processing of Polymer Nanocomposites on Their Microstructure and Rheological Properties Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we propose a simple strategy to control the microstructures of NPs by adding additional solvents with different solvent quality (good/poor) to the initial theta solvent. |
Tae Yeon Kong ; So Youn Kim; |
| 260 | Superdiffusive Thermal Transport in Polymer-grafted Spherical Nanoparticle Melts Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We use a thermal bridge method to measure the thermal conductivity κ in densely packed polymer-grafted spherical nanoparticle (GNP) membranes as a function of the polymer degree of polymerization , N, at fixed grafting density and NP size (radius 8 nm). |
Bohai Liu ; Mayank Jhalaria ; Sanat Kumar ; Xiangfan Xu ; George Fytas; |
| 261 | Fundamentals and Applications of Polymer Brushes in Air Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Based on these fundamental insights, I will propose optimal design parameters for application of brushes in sensing and separations technologies in air. |
Sissi De Beer; |
| 262 | Free Energy for Adhesion of Nanocarriers to Endothelial Cells Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this presentation, the effects of NCs geometry (size, shape and orientation) and surface chemistry (ligand density, composition and flexibility) on their interactions with solvent, substrate, receptors and chains of the EG layer are investigated. |
Saeed Akbari ; Shaghayegh Khani ; Joao Maia; |
| 263 | Arbitrarily Curved Polymer Brushes and Their End-exclusion Zones Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We find that the combination of surface curvatures contribute to non-local adjustments to chain packing constraints, either promoting EEZ growth or depressing it, which in turn affects the chain end distribution and the local polar order of chains. |
Michael Dimitriyev ; Gregory Grason; |
| 264 | Durable Anti-fogging Coatings Via Surface-initiated Photopolymerization Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we describe recent advances in our group in reduction photolithography to produce topographically and chemically pattern polymer brushes by using light-mediated controlled radical polymerization. |
Christian Pester; |
| 265 | Stimulus-Responsive Microphase-Separation of Resilin/Elastin Block-Copolypeptides in Solution and on Surfaces Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We observed classical, microphase-separated nanostructures, such as hexagonally-packed cylinders and alternating lamella, in concentrated solutions of the block copolypeptides. |
Stefan Zauscher ; Ashutosh Chilkoti ; Michael Gradzielski ; Luis Navarro ; Justin Ryan ; Michael Dzuricky; |
| 266 | Importance of The Polymer Ligand Conformation to The Assembly of Nanoparticles Within Emulsion-Evaporative Block Copolymer Particles Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Herein, we demonstrated the precise spatial alignment of polystyrene-grafted Au nanoparticles (Au@PS) within onion-like polystyrene- b-poly(4-vinylpyridine) (PS- b-P4VP) block copolymer (BCP) particles depending on the parameters related to the conformation of PS ligands, including the ratio of PS block molecular weight ( M n) to PS ligand M n ( P/N), core size of Au@PS ( r), and grafting density of PS ligands ( σ). |
Meng Xu ; Hongseok Yun ; Bumjoon Kim; |
| 267 | Nano-FTIR for Probing Molecule Orientation and Conformation in Thin Polymer Brush Films with Nanoscale Spatial Resolution Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Exploiting the inherent sensitivity of nano-FTIR spectroscopy to molecule orientation, it was successfully utilized for analyzing the molecule orientation in polymer fibers and thin biological membranes In this presentation we will demonstrate the capability of nano-FTIR for visualizing and distinguishing between nanometer sized phases with different crystallinity as well as for determining the molecule orientation and conformation in a few-nanometer-thin poly(ethylene oxide) polymer brush film. |
Tobias Gokus ; Adrian Cernescu; |
| 268 | Quantum-optical Brushes: Active Control of Strong Plasmon-exciton Coupling in Programmable Biomimetic Pigment-polymer Antenna Complexes Grown By Surface-initiated Polymerisation from Gold Nanostructures Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Theory suggests that exciton diffusion lengths in molecular materials could be enhanced by several orders of magnitude in the strong light-matter coupling regime. |
Graham Leggett ; Anna Lishcuk ; Evelin Csanyi; |
| 269 | The Importance of Charge Regulation for DNA-like Polymer Layers in A Physiological Intranuclear Environment: Effect of Mono- and Multivalent Cations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we use a molecular theoretical approach to determine how the packing and charge of DNA-like tethered polyelectrolytes change in response to changing environmental conditions. |
Rikkert Nap ; Ranya Virk ; Marcelo Carignano ; Vadim Backman ; Igal Szleifer; |
| 270 | Interaction Potential for Coarse-grained Models of Bottlebrush Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Though presented in the context of homopolymer bottlebrushes in athermal solvents, our proposed method can be extended to other solvent conditions as well as to different monomer chemistries. |
Tianyuan Pan ; Sarit Dutta ; Charles Sing; |
| 271 | Neutron Characterization of Stimuli-responsive Polymer Brushes for Nanofluidic Gating Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we report controllable gating behavior of nanofluidic channels decorated with pH-responsive polymer brushes. |
Hadi Rahmaninejad ; Andrew Parnell ; Thomas Sexton ; John Ankner ; Wei-Liang Chen ; Wim Bras ; Christopher Ober ; Anthony Ryan ; Rana Ashkar; |
| 272 | Understanding Strong Hydration, Salt-Resistance, and Antibiofouling of Zwitterionic Materials from Ab Initio Simulations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We employ ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) and symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT) to investigate hydration of different zwitterions with varied separation. |
Pranab Sarker ; Tao Wei; |
| 273 | Assembly Behavior of Bottlebrush Random Copolymers at The Water/Toluene Interface Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We investigated the assembly of bottlebrush random copolymers (BRCPs) at the water/toluene interface. |
Hong-Gyu Seong ; Zhan Chen ; Todd Emrick ; Thomas Russell; |
| 274 | The Effect of Chemistry, Sequence, and Architecture on Complex Coacervation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our experimental efforts are supported by the parallel development of computational approaches to model and predict the phase behavior of coacervate materials. |
Sarah Perry; |
| 275 | Self-assembly of Helical Peptide Filaments and Tubes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we report the cryo-EM analysis of designed peptide assemblies that enables the reconstruction of reliable atomic models. |
Vincent Conticello; |
| 276 | Controlling Liquid-liquid Phase Separation of Nucleic Acid Motifs Via Programmable Biochemical Reactions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: I will describe, by theory and experiment, how modification of the structure of DNA nanostars affects their macroscopic condensation kinetics. |
Elisa Franco; |
| 277 | Integrating Protein and Peptide Self-assembly with DNA Nanotechnology Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we will describe research in creating hybrid materials that incorporate proteins and peptides with DNA nanotechnology to create various assemblies (cages, nanofibers, addressable nanobots, and 3D crystals) with a high degree of programmability and nanoscale resolution. |
Nicholas Stephanopoulos; |
| 278 | Towards Programmable Assembly Via Geometric Frustration Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, I describe some of the emerging principles and ongoing efforts to engineer the intra-assembly stress propagation and thermodynamic self-limitation in assemblies through the shape, interaction and flexibility of those building blocks. |
Gregory Grason; |
| 279 | Composition Effects on The Air-polymer Surface Tension in Random Block Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we use Polystyrene (PS) as the A block and modified-PGMA (Poly(Glycidyl methacrylate)) as the B and C blocks. |
Yuba Dahal ; Juan De Pablo ; Paul Nealey ; R Joseph Kline ; Debra Audus; |
| 280 | The Effect of Size Properties and End/Linking Group Chemistry on The Surface Mechanical Properties of Water Spread PS-PEG Micelles on The Water Surface Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: The surface-mechanical properties of PS-PEG micelles are influenced by the PEG corona structure. Changes in micelle aggregation number as well as changes in the PEG end group and … |
Daniel Fesenmeier ; You-Yeon Won; |
| 281 | Interfacial Assembly of Star Block Copolymers at The Water-oil Interface Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: We synthesized a series of star block copolymers (s-BCPs) polystyrene- b-poly(2-vinylpyrindine) (PS- b-P2VP), where the PS blocks form the core and P2VP blocks comprise the … |
Zhan Chen ; Christian Steinmets ; Jan-Michael Carrillo ; Bryan Coughlin ; Wenxu Zhang ; Jeremiah Johnson ; Bobby Sumpter ; Thomas Russell; |
| 282 | Assembly of Polyelectrolyte Star Block Copolymers at The Oil-Water Interface Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present results of coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of the assembly of star block copolymers at the oil-water interface. |
Jan-Michael Carrillo ; Zhan Chen ; Benjamin Doughty ; Thomas Russell ; Bobby Sumpter; |
| 283 | Rapid Assembly in Block Copolymer Thin Films By Sequential Solution and Thermal Annealing with Asymmetric Reversible Processing Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: With this research, we propose a sequential annealing method coupling TA with DIA to process BCP films. |
Kshitij Sharma ; Ali Masud ; Aman Agrawal ; John Ankner ; Sushil Satija ; Jack Douglas ; Alamgir Karim; |
| 284 | Polarized Soft X-ray Scattering to Interrogate Molecular Orientation in Block Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Block copolymers (BCPs) are attractive materials for nanopatterning applications at length scales between 5-50 nm. Patterning at future lithographic nodes will require BCPs with … |
Daniel Sunday ; Dean DeLongchamp; |
| 285 | Structure of Twin Boundaries in Tubular Block Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: The appearance of twin boundary (TB) mirror defects in tubular double gyroid (DG) and double diamond (DD) networks suggests the networks can readily adapt into new low energy … |
Edwin Thomas ; Xueyan Feng ; Michael Dimitriyev; |
| 286 | Order-order Phase Transitions of Block Copolymers Within Microspheres Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We employ microspheres of polystyrene-polydimethylsiloxane (PS-PDMS) diblock copolymers made by a membrane emulsion process to initially create a concentric layer lamellar structure. |
Wenpeng Shan ; Edwin Thomas; |
| 287 | Template-free Alignment of Lamellar Block Copolymers for Large Area Sub-10 Nm Patterning and Hybrid Nanowire-nanoparticle Structures Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we show the template-free alignment of lamellar BCPs for sub-10 nm patterning and generating hybrid nanostructures over large areas. |
Maninderjeet Singh ; Wenjie Wu ; Chenhui Zhu ; Joseph Strzalka ; Krzysztof Matyjaszewski ; Michael Bockstaller ; Jack Douglas ; Alamgir Karim; |
| 288 | Selective Swelling Induced Pore Modification in Thin Films of Block Copolymer Active Water Purification Membranes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this report, we present an asymmetric etch-generated membrane possessing a high density of pores when cast using a poly(styrene)- b-poly(4-vinlypyridine) (PS- b-P4VP) BCP. |
Khadar Shaik ; Ali Ammar ; Kshitij Sharma ; Diana Cousins ; Maninderjeet Singh ; Deepalekshmi Ponnamma ; Mohammad Hassan ; Samer Adham ; Mariam Al Ali Al-Maadeed ; Anil Bhowmick ; Alamgir Karim; |
| 289 | Understanding Compatibilization Mechanisms for Upcycling of Semi-Crystalline Mixed Polymers Using Neutron Scattering Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) and low density polyethylene (LDPE) are used as a model polymer blend. |
Xiaomin Tang ; Xiayu Peng ; Changwoo Dong ; Christopher Bowland ; Jong Keum ; Tomonori Saito ; Jihua Chen ; Christopher Ellison ; Chelsea Chen; |
| 290 | Mechanical Detection of Liquid Evaporation in Thin Polymer Films Using A Quartz Crystal Microbalance Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We used a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) to explore the timescales and mass loss during evaporation in thin polystyrene films deposited by spin-coating from toluene solutions. |
Ana Zaalishvili ; Yannic Gagnon ; Connie Roth ; Justin Burton; |
| 291 | Theory of Microphase Separation in Concentrated Solutions of Sequence Specific Charged Heteropolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our study demonstrates the rich roles played by sequences of a polymer with a unique mapping between sequences and microphase separated morphologies. |
Siao-Fong Li ; Murugappan Muthukumar; |
| 292 | Is The "Bricks-and-Mortar" Mesophase Bicontinuous?: Dynamic Simulations of Miktoarm Block Copolymer/Homopolymer Blends Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The simulations focusing on dynamics establish that the role of molecular bridging dominates the mechanical behavior, outweighing the influence of microphase segregation even at the highest homopolymer concentrations we study. |
Cody Bezik ; Joshua Mysona ; Ludwig Schneider ; Abelardo Ramirez-Hernandez ; Marcus Mueller ; Juan De Pablo; |
| 293 | Phase Separation and Anomalous Domain Growth in Binary Blends of Polymer-grafted Nanoparticles Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this contribution, results on the phase separation behavior and kinetics of particle brush blends comprised of organosilica grafted with poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) and poly(styrene- r-acrylonitrile) (PSAN), respectively. |
Michael Bockstaller ; Yue Zhai ; Wenjie Wu ; Alamgir Karim; |
| 294 | Altering Block Copolymer (BCP) Self-assembly and Phase Behavior with Low-intensity Magnetic Fields Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We recently discovered magnetic field-induced phase formation in weakly diamagnetic, coil-coil BCPs that cannot be explained by traditional mechanisms of domain alignment. |
Grace Kresge ; Karthika Suresh ; Michelle Calabrese; |
| 295 | 3D Imaging and Analysis of The Nanomorphology of Polymer Films to Reveal Synthesis, Structure and Property Relationships Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Using different morphometric approaches to quantify the crumple morphology, including curvature mapping, machine-learning-based gaussian mixture model and graph theory-based skeletonization, we were able to show a Turing instability relationship between monomer concentration and crumple morphogenesis, along with a correlation between the crumple nanomorphology with methanol permeance and apparent modulus of the PA films. |
Falon Kalutantirige ; Hyosung An ; Qian Chen; |
| 296 | Self-assembly of Semicrystalline Bottlebrush Statistical Copolymers with Various Grafting Density Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: An analysis of the one-dimensional scattering length density correlation function revealed that the backbone acted as a transition zone between the PEO and PDMS domains at high grafting density, while forming a distinct third domain with a smaller density than both PEO and PDMS at low grafting density. |
Mingqiu Hu ; Hong-Gyu Seong ; Todd Emrick ; Javid Rzayev ; Thomas Russell; |
| 297 | Effects of Skewness on The Formation of Complex Spherical Phases in Disperse Diblock Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In our study, we examine the effect of skewness on the formation of the complex spherical packing phases in disperse diblock copolymers using the self-consistent field theory. |
Chi Lai ; Anchang Shi; |
| 298 | Side Chain Induced Morphology Changes in Brush-Linear Diblock Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we investigate the self-assembly of brush-linear block copolymers where both the brush side chain density and chain length are systematically varied. |
Jaemin Park ; Sheng Li; |
| 299 | Formation of Complex Spherical Packing Phases in Binary Blends of Diblock Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The study demonstrated that binary blends of diblock copolymers provide an efficient route to regulate the emergence and stability of complex spherical packing phases. |
Yu Li; |
| 300 | Equilibrium Nature of Self-Assembled Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles in A Homopolymer Matrix Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To explore this assumption, we conducted large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of grafted NPs in a chemically identical polymer melt. |
Clement Koh ; Sanat Kumar ; Gary Grest; |
| 301 | Stabilizing Binary Mesocrystals Via Block Copolymer Blends Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this research we explore the possibility of using blends of simple copolymers with designed secondary interactions as an alternative route to access desired structures. |
Jiayu Xie ; Chi Lai ; Anchang Shi; |
| 302 | Entropic Mixing of Ring/Linear Polymer Blends Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: The closed-loop structure of ring polymers enables them to be threaded by linear polymers. This results in an entropic mixing (negative χ) compared to linear/linear and ring/ring … |
Gary Grest ; Steven Plimpton ; Ting Ge ; Thomas O’Connor; |
| 303 | Water Transport Through Hydrogel Membranes at Low Relative Humidities Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We envision a way to capture and transport that water through a thin polymeric membrane. |
Han-Jae Cho ; Yiwei Gao ; Ryan Phung ; Bianca Navarro ; Genaro Marcial-Lorza ; Stone Wachs; |
| 304 | The Impact of Ion-ion Correlated Motion on Salt Transport in Solvated Ion Exchange Membranes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we study the impact of ion-ion correlations on salt transport in hydrated polystyrene sulfonate membranes and aqueous salt solutions via atomistic molecular dynamics simulations. |
Nico Marioni ; Zidan Zhang ; Harnoor Sachar ; Everett Zofchak ; Sanket Kadulkar ; Benny Freeman ; Venkatraghavan Ganesan; |
| 305 | Azo Dye Functionalization of Polycarbonate Membranes for Water Purification Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The research presented illustrates that polycarbonate filtration membranes with 100 nanometer diameter holes functionalized with azo dye molecules can successfully remove the negatively charged azo dye components from water. |
Sean McBride ; Ashton Caruthers ; Michele Fortner ; Carrie Cockerham; |
| 306 | Single Molecule Microscopy Informs The Design of Membrane Absorbers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we apply super-resolution fluorescence microscopy to study transport behavior at polymer-modified membrane interfaces at the single-molecule level. |
Ricardo Monge Neria ; Spencer Schmidt ; Chae Young Yoon ; Maura Sepesy ; Christine Duval ; Lydia Kisley; |
| 307 | Understanding Selective Transport of Same-charge Ions in Polymeric Membranes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The research provides insights for the dynamic research efforts to achieve precise same-charge-ion selectivity in polymeric membranes. |
Meng Shen ; Eric Palacios ; Lingchen Kong ; Xitong Liu; |
| 308 | A Sub-2nm Two-dimensional Polymer Membrane with Dense Functionalized Nanopores for High Power Density Osmotic Power Generation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This work successfully utilized short-range interaction for osmotic power generation for the first time, introducing a new approach to designing high-performance osmotic power generation membranes. |
Baorui Cheng ; Yu Zhong ; Yuqing Qiu ; Jiwoong Park ; Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan; |
| 309 | The Effect of Miscibility Lengthscale on Ion Transport Behavior in Polymer-Mixture Electrolytes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: For that, we propose a quantitative model that considers Li + transport within and across clusters. |
Chuting Deng ; Daniel Sharon ; Michael Webb ; Peter Bennington ; Paul Nealey ; Shrayesh Patel ; Juan De Pablo; |
| 310 | Ion Solvation and Transport in Tetraglyme-based Electrolytes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present the molecular dynamics (MD) simulation study of a model liquid electrolyte consisting of tetraglyme and bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI). |
Chao Fang ; David Halat ; Rui Wang; |
| 311 | Linking Boron-polyol Complexation Mechanisms to Selective Transport in Ligand-functionalized Polyether Membranes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This research establishes fundamental structure/property rules for boron selectivity that could lead to new material designs for water purification membranes. |
Matthew Landsman ; Frederick Rivers ; Benjamin Pedretti ; Benny Freeman ; Desmond Lawler ; Nathaniel Lynd ; Lynn Katz ; Gregory Su; |
| 312 | Unveiling Role of Hydroxyl Organic Interfaces for Enhancing Ion Transport in Hydrated Polymer Electrolytes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Therefore, in this study we synthesised a series of random copolymer brushes, having differnt degree of hydrophilicity and number of hydroxyl groups, to control and isolate hydrophilicity and alcohol content in order to determine their relative impacts on ionic conductivity enhancement for these interfacial types. |
Kai Wang ; Kai Wang ; James Lettow ; Zhongyang Wang ; Stuart Rowan ; Paul Nealey; |
| 313 | Mechanisms of Ion Transport in Lithium Salt-Doped Polymeric Ionic Liquid Electrolytes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present results for ion coordination and hopping characteristics to rationalize such behaviors and identify the mechanistic origins of the properties of this emerging class of polymer electrolytes. |
Zidan Zhang ; Amir Nasrabadi ; Dipak Aryal ; Venkatraghavan Ganesan; |
| 314 | Continuous Liquid-Liquid Extraction and In-situ Membrane Separation of Miscible Liquid Mixtures Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Herein, we discuss a novel, easily scalable, platform separation methodology termed CLEANS (Continuous Liquid-liquid Extraction And iN-situ membrane Separation). |
David Speer; |
| 315 | Universal Relaxation Equation for Disordered and Complex Systems Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: A fitting algorithm is introduced that identifies confidence intervals for each of the four experimental parameters. |
Matthew Grayson ; Can Aygen ; Jiajun Luo; |
| 316 | Effects of Print Direction on The Mechanical Properties of 3D Printed Polymer Composites Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The findings in this work present an important step towards understanding the microstructural mechanics and properties of such 3D printed parts, which allow designers and engineers to better predict and model these materials. |
Ammar Batwa ; Yaning Li; |
| 317 | Weibull Statistical Evaluation of The Properties of 3D-printed Nanographene-containing ABS Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Novel Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) polymers melt-blended with 5 wt.% and 10 wt.% XGnP™ M5 graphene nanoplatelets were fabricated into 1.75 mm diameter filament for 3D … |
Robert Bubeck ; Stephen Gillman ; Peter Kozerski ; Tracy Zhang; |
| 318 | Rational Design of Multicomponent Nanocomposites Toward Hierarchical Assemblies with Design Flexibility and Structural Fidelity Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We hypothesize that diversified chemical complexity and increased composition variety are the key principles for the unique phase behavior. |
Le Ma ; Hejin Huang ; Emma Vargo ; Jingyu Huang ; Christopher Anderson ; Tiffany Chen ; Ivan Kuzmenko ; Jan Ilavsky ; Cheng Wang ; Yi Liu ; Peter Ercius ; Alfredo Alexander-Katz ; Ting Xu; |
| 319 | Effect of Polymer-Nanoparticle Interactions on The Fracture Toughness of Polymer-infiltrated Nanoparticle Films Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We tune the polymer-NP interaction strength by using poly(styrene) which is known to have weak interactions with SiO 2, poly(2-vinyl pyridine) (P2VP) that is capable of forming hydrogen bonds with SiO 2, and trimethyl silane-passivated SiO 2 that weakens interactions between the polymer and the nanoparticles. |
Yiwei Qiang ; Daeyeon Lee ; Kevin Turner; |
| 320 | Effects of Attractive Interfacial Interactions on Local, Nanoscale Stiffness of Supported Copolymer Adhesive Films Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Research has shown that many key properties of nanoconfined polymers exhibit significant deviations from bulk responses. |
Sumeng Hu ; Tong Wang ; John Torkelson ; Asghar Peera ; Saswati Pujari ; Sipei Zhang; |
| 321 | Jamming on Deformable Surfaces Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we propose a new jamming category, which we refer to as metric jamming, that refers to structures jammed both with respect to particle degrees of freedom and surface degrees of freedom. |
Tim Atherton ; Zhaoyu Xie; |
| 322 | Equilibrium States Corresponding to Targeted Nonequilibrium Pair Statistics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To test this conjecture, we apply a new inverse methodology for two different nonequilibrium 2D models: the nonhyperuniform random sequential addition (RSA) process and a hyperuniform "perfect glass". |
Haina Wang ; Salvatore Torquato; |
| 323 | Tunability of The Dispersion and Rheology in PNCs By Non-linear Polymers at The Polymer-NP Interface Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we used poly(ethylene oxide) with varying architectures (linear, stars and hyper-branched) to explore the effects of modified surfaces by ‘non-linear’ polymers on dispersion state of NPs and bulk rheology of the PNCs. |
Saeid Darvishi ; Recep Bakar ; Erkan Senses; |
| 324 | Initial Curing Process Between Epoxy and Amine at A Solid Interface Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we examined the initial curing reaction of epoxy phenol novolac (EPN) and 4,4′-diaminodiphenyl sulfone (DDS) at a quartz interface using sum-frequency generation spectroscopy. |
Daisuke Kawaguchi ; Ko Yamaguchi ; Satoru Yamamoto ; Keiji Tanaka; |
| 325 | Molecular Inhomogeneities in Thermal Expansion and Their Impact on Relaxation Time and Densification Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Structural relaxation in liquids is considered to be directly controlled by density, a link which is the basis of most theoretical approaches to the glass transition. Yet, none of … |
Martin Tress ; Jan Gabriel ; Friedrich Kremer; |
| 326 | Predicting Several Seconds of The Relaxation Dynamics of An Entangled Polymer Melt from A Few Nanoseconds of Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: The rheology of high-molecular-weight polymer melts is determined by the entanglement dynamics. Polymer melts with hundreds of entanglements can have relaxation times on the order … |
Diego Becerra ; Andrés Córdoba ; Jay Schieber; |
| 327 | Distribution and Pressure of Active Levy Swimmers Under Confinement Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We introduce active Levy swimmers to model such behavior. |
(Edmond) Tingtao Zhou ; Mamikon Gulian ; Zhiwei Peng ; John Brady; |
| 328 | An Analytic Form of The Integrated Lennard-Jones Potential for Thin Rods Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: An analytic form has been derived using Ostrogradsky’s integration method for the integrated interaction between two rigid and thin rods of finite lengths and in arbitrary relative configurations in three-dimensional space, each treated as a line of material points interacting through the Lennard-Jones 12-6 potential. |
Junwen Wang ; Gary Seidel ; Shengfeng Cheng; |
| 329 | Mechanical Properties of Adipose Tissue Mediates Breast Cancer Invasion Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We model the adipocytes and cancer cells as deformable particles that can explicitly change their shape. |
Dong Wang ; John Treado ; Garrett Beeghly ; Francesco Arceri ; Michael Murrell ; Claudia Fischbach ; Mark Shattuck ; Corey O’Hern; |
| 330 | Active Mixing of Phase Separating Mixtures Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we examine a model for a mixture of two immiscible liquid crystals and show that endowing one of the components with activity suppresses phase separation, driving the mixture into micro phase separated or uniform states. |
Fernando Caballero ; Cristina Marchetti; |
| 331 | Kinetic Theory Modeling of Bacteria Diffusion and Chemotaxis Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Microscopically, the tumbling rate is controlled by the concentration of a protein whose production depends on the local values of the chemoattractant, responding with a characteristic time T. Here, we build a kinetic model for the chemotactic bacterial motion that includes the fluctuations of the protein concentration. |
Rodrigo Soto ; Andrea Villa; |
| 332 | From Nematic Defects to Polar Order: Polar Active Flow of Cytoskeletal Filaments Shaped By Nematic Defects Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Again, we observe the formation of polar patterns whose emergence is now a direct effect of passive defects. |
Alfredo Sciortino ; Lukas Neumann ; Chiao-Peng Hsu ; Alice De La Trobe Yu ; Andreas Bausch; |
| 333 | Nematic Vs. Hexatic Order in Epithelial Tissues: Which Is The Right One? Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we use a combination of in vitro experiments, numerical simulations and analytical work to identify the emergent order of epithelial tissues. |
Livio Nicola Carenza ; Josep-Maria Armengol ; Julia Eckert ; Dimitrios Krommydas ; Luca Giomi; |
| 334 | Active Hexanematics: A Paradigm for Epithelial Tissues Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Using cell-resolved numerical simulations and fluctuating hydrodynamics, we show that both nematic and hexatic order affect the collective behaviour of confluent epithelial layers, albeit at different length scales. |
Josep-Maria Armengol ; Livio Carenza ; Luca Giomi; |
| 335 | Autonomous Microfluidics and Active Flow Networks in Active Nematics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In long, straight microfluidic channels, we observe directional flows along one direction, selected by spontaneous symmetry breaking. |
Claire Doré ; Justine Laurent ; Jérôme Hardoüin ; Jordi Ignés-Mullol ; Francesc Sagués ; Teresa Lopez-Leon; |
| 336 | Dynamics of Active Defects Under Non-uniform Gaussian Curvature Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, biomimmetic structural units are created by coating ellipsoidal droplets of a smectic liquid crystal with a protein-based active cytoskeletal gel, thus obtaining core-shell structures. |
Teresa Lopez-Leon ; Martina Clairand ; Ali Mozaffari ; Jérôme Hardouin ; Rui Zhang ; Jordi Ignés-Mullol ; Francesc Sagues ; Juan De Pablo; |
| 337 | Light-induced 2D Micro-swimmers at The Nematic-isotropic Interface of A Thermotropic Liquid Crystal Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Therefore, we designed a novel LC-compatible system inspired by the structure of Paramecia. |
Antonio Tavera-Vazquez ; Danai Montalvan ; Noe Atzin ; Gustavo Perez Lemus ; Vinothan Manoharan ; Juan De Pablo; |
| 338 | Long-ranged Velocity Correlations in Dense Systems of Self-propelled Particles Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Previous work that examined amorphous solid-like active systems rationalized the origin of the velocity correlations in terms of the elasticity of the solid, and found that the velocity correlations grow with the square-root of the persistence time. |
Elijah Flenner ; Grzegorz Szamel; |
| 339 | Rheology of Entangled Active Polymer-Like T. Tubifex Worm Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We propose a new ‘active particle’ system in which the particles are in fact polymer-like. |
Antoine Deblais; |
| 340 | Thermodynamic Equilibrium Controls The Growth Rate of Out-of-equilibrium Myelin Figures Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We investigate the growth of isolated myelin figures from multilamellar vesicles (MLVs) of an anionic surfactant, sodium linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (NaLAS), formed spontaneously through a thermally induced phase transformation. |
sepideh khodaparast ; William Sharratt ; Joao Cabral; |
| 341 | Deformation Dynamics of Active Shells: Polar V Nematic Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This work thus clarifies the interaction of active defects and geometry and provides potentially new insight into morphogenesis. |
Ludwig Hoffmann ; Livio Carenza ; Luca Giomi; |
| 342 | Polymer Physics Prize (2022): Controlling Nanoparticle Ordering By Directional Polymer Crystallization Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Using this method, we show that we can order and orient the NP assemblies into desired directions. |
Sanat Kumar ; Sabin Adhikari ; Bryan Vogt ; Sumesh Thampi ; Christopher Durning; |
| 343 | Design of Polymer Electrolytes with Superionic Ion Transport Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Progress toward durable, high-energy density lithium-ion batteries has been hindered by instabilities at electrolyte-electrode interfaces leading to poor cycling stability, and by … |
Rachel Segalman; |
| 344 | Entropic Freezing of Diffusion of Macromolecules at Intermediate Confinements Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: It is well known that the Zimm-Rouse (Ogston) model, entropic barrier model, and reptation model, respectively, adequately describe the diffusion of macromolecules as the degree of confinement by their environment is progressively increased. |
Murugappan Muthukumar; |
| 345 | Dynamics and Solvation of Ionic Liquids with Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: I will present two different systems with nonionic and ionic grafted chains and discuss the effect of ion-dipole and ionic interactions between polymer chains and ionic liquids on the conductivity and dynamic properties of ionic liquids. |
Pinar Akcora; |
| 346 | Polymer Grafted Nanoparticles for Materials Design Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This presentation will provide an overview of the chemistry used to prepare multimodal polymer-grafted nanoparticles with precise control over multiple polymer chain variables, and examples in select applications. |
Brian Benicewicz; |
| 347 | Biopolymer Self-assembly and Aggregation at Interfaces Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We demonstrate that this surface-enabled self-assembly process can proceed through diffusion-limited aggregation, without a nucleation barrier. |
Zahra Fakhraai ; Yi-Chih Lin ; Murray Skolnick; |
| 348 | Lipid Layer Formation on Particle Surfaces By Using DNA-Containing Recruiter Molecules Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we prepare DNA-containing recruiter molecules and incorporate them onto DNA immobilized gold nanoparticles through DNA hybridization. |
Sheng Li ; Jeehae Shin; |
| 349 | Mechanical Properties of Glassy Polymer Nanocomposites Via Atomistic and Continuum Models: The Role of Interphases Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We propose a novel hierarchical computational approach to predict the distribution of mechanical properties of polymer nanocomposites (PNCs), based on homogenization approaches and atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. |
Vagelis Harmandaris ; Hilal Reda ; Nikos Savva ; Alireza Foorazani Behbahani ; Anthony Chazirakis; |
| 350 | Stractural and Dynamical Properties of Hybrid Polymer/Gold and Core-Shell Nanoparticle Systems Through Molecular Dynamics Simulations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present a detailed investigation of polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) with a bare and functionalized nanoparticle (NP) via detailed atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. |
Albert Power ; Ioannis Remediakis ; Vagelis Harmandaris; |
| 351 | Entropic Surface Segregation from Athermal Polymer Blends Due to Conformational Asymmetry Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This work uses Monte Carlo simulations to investigate the surfaces of athermal blends of stiff and flexible polymers as the bending modulus of the stiff polymers, κ, is increased from zero to the point where the bulk undergoes an isotropic−nematic transition. |
Russell Spencer ; Mark Matsen; |
| 352 | Empirical Scaling Relations for Block Copolymer Surface Micelles Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we report empirical scaling relations of BCP surface micelles based on an extensive set of data collected from both scattering-based analysis and microscope-based analysis. |
Dong Hyup Kim ; So Youn Kim; |
| 353 | Morphology Transition of Block Copolymer Surface Micelles By Solvent Immersion Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we report that BCP surface micelles which were transferred from the air-water interface to a substrate can transform into diverse nanostructures with direct immersion in specific solvents. |
Seokyoung Bae ; Dong Hyup Kim ; So Youn Kim; |
| 354 | Molecular Weight-Dependent Self-Assembly Behavior of Bottlebrush Block Copolymer in Emulsion Droplet Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We investigate the self-assembly of bottlebrush block copolymers (BBCPs) under emulsion driplet, where each block consisted of polystyrene (PS) and polylactide (PLA). |
Eun Ji Kim ; Jaeman Shin ; Taeyang Do ; Gue Seon Lee ; Juhae Park ; Vikarm Thapar ; Jinwoong Choi ; Joona Bang ; Gi-Ra Yi ; Su-Mi Hur ; Jeung Gon Kim ; Bumjoon Kim; |
| 355 | Order-to-disorder Transition of Block Copolymers with Discrete Chain Model and Finite-range Interaction Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Thanks to the earlier random phase approximation (RPA) and self-consistent field theory (SCFT) calculations, it is now well known that the ODT point of symmetric AB BCP melt is ( χN) ODT = 10.495 in the mean field limit, when standard Gaussian chain model is adopted. |
Jaeup Kim ; Daeseong Yong ; Wonjun Kang; |
| 356 | Symmetry-Breaking of Double Gyroid Structures in Block Copolymer Films By Non-affine Distortion Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we suggest that a solvent vapor annealing, which forms self-assembled gyroid structures in polystyrene- b-poly(methyl methacrylate) (PS- b-PMMA) films, causes unique structural distortion owing to unidirectional deformation upon deswelling processes. |
Seungyun Jo ; Haedong Park ; Taesuk Jun ; Byeongdu Lee ; Seungwoo Lee ; Du Yeol Ryu; |
| 357 | Diverse Frank-Kasper Phases in High-χ and Conformationally Asymmetric PDMS-b-PTFEA Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To directly impact these low-symmetry structures, here, we introduce a new-type of BCPs with high- χ and high- ε, where χ and ε are the Flory−Huggins interaction parameter and conformational asymmetry between the two blocks, respectively. |
Seungbae Jeon ; Taesuk Jun ; Sangwoo Lee ; Byeongdu Lee ; Du Yeol Ryu; |
| 358 | Multidomain Helical Nanostructure By A1BA2C Tetrablock Terpolymer Self-Assembly Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we investigated, via small-angle X-ray scattering and transmission electron microscopy, the morphology of a polystyrene- block-polyisoprene- block-polystyrene- block-poly(2-vinylpyridine) (S 1IS 2V) tetrablock terpolymer. |
JinKon Kim ; Hyeongkeon Yoon; |
| 359 | Elastic Turbulence Generates Anomalous Flow Resistance in Porous Media Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Thus, by linking the onset of unstable flow at the pore scale to transport at the macroscale, our work provides generally-applicable guidelines for predicting and controlling polymer solution flows in a variety of porous media. |
Christopher Browne ; Sujit Datta; |
| 360 | Direct Visualization of Bottlebrush Polymers in The Solid State with Super-resolution Microscopy Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We use super-resolution optical microscopy to capture clear and convincing images of individual chains within a bulk material using a model system of densely grafted chains called bottlebrush polymers. |
Jonathan Chan ; Avram Kordon ; Ruimeng Zhang ; Muzhou Wang; |
| 361 | Adhesive Contact of A Pressure Tunable, Patterned Elastomer Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: A mechanics analysis is presented to describe the adhesive contact between a rigid body and the PTA. |
Naomi Deneke ; Jamie Booth ; Edwin Chan ; Chelsea Davis; |
| 362 | Ion Correlations and Transference Numbers in Polyelectrolyte Solutions for Li-ion Batteries Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we present the Onsager transport framework as a means of rigorously computing the transference number, without neglecting non-idealities, from molecular dynamics simulations. |
Kara Fong ; Bryan McCloskey ; Kristin Persson; |
| 363 | Understanding Chain Motion at Glass-forming Polymer Interfaces: Dynamical Gradients Yield Rubbery Surfaces Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we report on simulations and theory, supported by experiment, providing the first predictive understanding of polymer chain relaxation in a Tg gradient at the surface of a film. |
Asieh Ghanekarade ; David Simmons; |
| 364 | Circumventing Physical Limits of Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Actuation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In the preparation of LCE, we demonstrate the considerable influence of the orientational genesis (e.g., ordering of mesogens) during crosslinking in the LCEs. |
Tayler Hebner ; Christopher Bowman ; Timothy White; |
| 365 | Impact of Placement and Composition of Hydrogen Bonding Groups Along Polymer Chains on Blend Morphology Using Coarse-grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we will present our work involving molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and a recently developed coarse-grained (CG) model for polymers with directional interactions [ Macromolecules (2019) 52 (7) 2725-2735] to predict polymer blends’ morphology for varying composition ( i.e., fraction of monomers with H-bonding acceptor/donor groups along polymer chains) and placement of H-bonding acceptor/donor groups along polymer chains. |
Arjita Kulshreshtha ; Ryan Hayward ; Arthi Jayaraman; |
| 366 | Dynamic Associations Via Stickers, Micelles, or Particles Facilitate Macromolecular Engineering of Aqueous Formulations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this contribution, we examine the contrasting influence of dynamic associations on macromolecular dynamics and formulation rheology in response to shear flows using torsional rheometry and extensional flows with dripping-onto-substrate (DoS) rheometry. |
Carina Martinez ; Vivek Sharma; |
| 367 | Sub-3-Nanometer Domain Spacings of Ultrahigh-χ Multiblock Copolymers with Pendant Ionic Groups: Morphologies, Phase Diagram, and Applications Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We investigated the temperature-dependent phase behavior and interaction parameter of polyethylene-based multiblock copolymers with pendant ionic groups. |
Jinseok Park ; Anne Staiger ; Stefan Mecking ; Karen Winey; |
| 368 | Mechanisms of Self-Diffusion of Linear Associative Polymers Studied By Brownian Dynamics Simulation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Anomalous diffusion of associative polymers has been attributed to a coexistence of multiple diffusive modes, though their role in networks with sticker densities below the … |
Ameya Rao ; Jorge Ramirez ; Bradley Olsen; |
| 369 | Non-exponential Stress Relaxations in Arrested Gels Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we directly study this phenomenon through a combination of rheology and x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy on a model arrested associative gel. |
Jake Song ; Qingteng Zhang ; Mehedi Rizvi ; Felipe de Quesada ; Joseph Tracy ; Jan Ilavsky ; Suresh Narayanan ; Emanuela Del Gado ; Robert Leheny ; Niels Holten-Andersen ; Gareth McKinley; |
| 370 | Supramolecular Bonds, Phase Equilibrium, and Self-Assembly in Telechelic Polymer Blends Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We study a binary blend of telechelic homopolymers that can form reversible AB-type bonds at chain ends. |
Daniel Vigil ; Kris Delaney ; Glenn Fredrickson; |
| 371 | Assessing Protein Corona Formation on Hard and Polymeric Nanoparticles – Towards Understanding Biocompatibility, Biodistribution, and Efficacy Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Herein, we present a multimodal study of protein corona composition and dynamics, first on ‘hard’ nanoparticles: spherical polystyrene nanoparticles and high aspect ratio single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). |
Markita Landry; |
| 372 | Human Airway Mucus: Cactus-like Conformations of Associative Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: A unique "cactus" model resulting from loops of different orders is proposed. |
Scott Danielsen ; Michael Rubinstein; |
| 373 | Role of Active and Thermal Fluctuations in Biopolymer Dynamics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We develop a theoretical framework for predicting the combined influence of active and Brownian forces in biopolymer dynamics. |
Ashesh Ghosh ; Andrew Spakowitz; |
| 374 | A Mean-field Theory to Predict Statistics of Semiflexible Biomolecules Due to Inhomogeneous Forces Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In our work, we modify an existing analytically tractable mean-field approach to account for the heterogeneity in tension for electric fields. |
Ananya Mondal ; Greg Morrison; |
| 375 | Nanopore Chip with Self-Aligned Transverse Tunneling Junction for Biomolecule Detection and Sequencing Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we report a new strategy for fabricating a solid-state nanopore with transverse tunneling junction integrated inside a nanofluidic channel, where DNA molecules can be enriched and straightened to pass through the nanopore between the electrodes. |
Sanjana Mukherjee ; Yuan Wang ; Joshua Sadar ; Ching-Wei Tsao ; Quan Qing; |
| 376 | Unexpected Fluorescence in Peptide Amphiphile Micelles for Molecular-recognition Sensing Applications Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This work will present the design, characterization, and functionality of this newly discovered and versatile AIE material. |
Whitney Fowler; |
| 377 | Bayesian Inference of Chromatin Looping Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We developed a Bayesian inference algorithm to detect sustained contacts in two-particle tracking experiments, thereby uncovering the dynamics of chromatin loops. |
Simon Grosse-Holz ; Hugo Brandão ; Michele Gabriele ; Asmita Jha ; Claudia Cattoglio ; Tsung-Han Hsieh ; Leonid Mirny ; Christoph Zechner ; Anders Hansen; |
| 378 | Extreme Elastic Properties of Mechanosensory Chordotonal Organs in Drosophila Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we study the lateral pentascolopidial organ (lch5), a type of chordotonal organ (ChO), of Drosophila larvae. |
Xiaoxuan Jian ; Chonglin Guan ; Kengo Nishi ; Christian Kreis ; Oliver Baeumchen ; Martin Göpfert ; Christoph Schmidt; |
| 379 | A Coarse-grain Elastic Lattice Polymer Model of Bacterial Chromosomes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this context, we studied an elastic lattice polymer model for tightly double-folded ring polymers. |
Elham Ghobadpour ; Ralf Everaers ; Ivan Junier; |
| 380 | Modulation of DNA Entanglements By Nucleoid Associated Proteins Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, I will report on recent results we obtained using particle tracking microrheology on entangled solutions of large lambda-DNA functionalized by IHF/HNS proteins. |
Davide Michieletto; |
| 381 | Mechanical Properties Of Peptide Nucleic Acids Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We argue that the neutral backbones of the PNA make it less stiff than dsDNA and dsRNA. |
Khadka Chhetri ; Akshara Sharama ; Supriyo Naskar ; Prabal Maiti; |
| 382 | Stochastic Dynamics of Coupled DNA Loci on A Compacted Chromosome Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Using a live imaging assay to simultaneously measure positions of pairs of enhancers and promoters in thousands of nuclei of the developing fly embryo, we analyze the two-point correlations of these DNA loci. |
David Brückner ; Lev Barinov ; Hongtao Chen ; Thomas Gregor; |
| 383 | Dynamic Bridging Explains Sub-diffusive Movement of Chromosomal Loci Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, using polymer simulations we investigate the role of DNA bridging in determining the dynamics of chromosomal loci. |
Srikanth Subramanian ; Sean Murray; |
| 384 | Transport in Ionic Polymer Membranes for Large-Scale Energy Conversion and Storage Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, transport of ions, water, and active redox species through ion-containing polymer membranes will be discussed. |
Michael Hickner; |
| 385 | Membranes and Sustainability Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The presentation will focus on key membranes application areas like H2 fuel cells, water purification, waste plastic circularity, and carbon capture, emphasizing recent developments, market and societal needs, and proposed research topics. |
Abhishek Roy; |
| 386 | Electron Tomography Reveals New Insights on Polymer Membranes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have leveraged advances in multi-modal electron microscopy to generate new insights on membrane structure and function. |
Enrique Gomez; |
| 387 | Transport in Self-assembled Polymer Membranes with Uniform 1 Nm Transport Limiting Features Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we investigate the fabrication and transport properties of a nanoprous membranes derived from self-assembled liquid crystal mesophases, with the potential to address the aforementioned issues. |
Chinedum Osuji; |
| 388 | Thermal Diffusion in Polymer Electrolyte Membranes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: In most mixtures, a concentration gradient develops in response to a temperature gradient. Steady state is quantified by the Soret coefficient, which is the ratio of the thermal … |
Daniel Hallinan ; Micah Silverman ; Kyoungmin Kim ; Jesufane (Jenny) Mentor; |
| 389 | Engineering Li/Na Selectivity in 12-crown-4–functionalized Polymer Membranes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Toward this end, we have incorporated host–guest interactions into a tunable polynorbornene network by copolymerizing: (1) 12-crown-4 ligands to impart ion selectivity, (2) poly(ethylene oxide) side-chains to control water content, and (3) a crosslinker to form robust solids at room temperature. |
Samuel Warnock ; Rahul Sujanani ; Everett Zofchak ; Shou Zhao ; Theodore Dilenschneider ; Kalin Hanson ; Sanjoy Mukherjee ; Venkatraghavan Ganesan ; Benny Freeman ; Mahdi Abu-Omar ; Christopher Bates; |
| 390 | Exploring Macroscopic Manifestations of Microscopic Gas Transport Pathways in Polymer-grafted Nanoparticle Membranes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This work aims to explore the relationship between observable macroscopic properties and proposed mechanisms for penetrant transport in these systems. |
Robert Tannenbaum ; Eric Ruzicka ; Brian Benicewicz ; Sanat Kumar; |
| 391 | 3D Printed Adsorbers for Capturing Chemotherapy Drugs Before They Spread Through The Body Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In the context of reducing the toxicity of chemotherapy, we have designed, built, and deployed porous adsorbers for capturing chemotherapy drugs before they spread through the body. |
Hee Jeung Oh; |
| 392 | Understanding Probe Diffusion in Dense Polymer Networks and The Roles of Mesh Size, Tg, and Segmental Dynamics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: The effect of permanent crosslinks on probe diffusion was investigated in dense poly(butyl acrylate), varying the number of repeat units between crosslink junctions from 2-100 … |
Grant Sheridan ; Christopher Evans; |
| 393 | Revisiting Ion Transport in Nafion Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Nafion is a charged polymer of significant interest as a fuel cell membrane due to rapid and selective transport of protons. Small molecule transport in Nafion has been explored … |
Rahul Sujanani ; Benny Freeman; |
| 394 | Controlling Nanoparticle Adsorption to Weak Polyelectrolyte Layer-by-Layer Films Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Using a model layer-by-layer (LbL) system of alternating poly(allyl amine hydrochloride) (PAH) and poly(acrylic acid) (PAA), we study the adsorption of 20 nm poly(ethylene glycol)-carboxylic acid functionalized gold NPs (Au-PEG 12-COOH NPs) to 50 nm LbL films on a silicon or glass substrates. |
Michael Boyle ; Wilfredo Mendez Ortiz ; Hyun-Su Lee ; Kathleen Stebe ; Yale E. Goldman ; Daeyeon Lee ; Russell Composto; |
| 395 | Crosslinking, Polar Group Quantification, and Dynamics of Polyamide Reverse Osmosis Membranes Via NMR Methods Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, I will demonstrate a chemical separation method for purifying the PA from TFC membranes, the purity of which is quantified via 13C CPMAS NMR. |
Ryan Nieuwendaal ; Christopher Stafford ; Jeff Wilbur ; Manuel Velasco; |
| 396 | Neutron Spectroscopy of Water Dynamics and Polymer Relaxation in Polyamide RO Desalination Membranes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We investigate model polyamide (PA) membranes with a combination of quasi-elastic and inelastic neutron scattering to elucidate the translational dynamics of confined water and the relaxation of the polymeric matrix under conditions relevant to reverse osmosis (RO). |
Joao Cabral ; Fabrizia Foglia ; Andrew Livingston ; Bernhard Frick; |
| 397 | Morphology and Ion Dynamics in Neat and Hydrated Sulfonated Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: I will describe atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of a precise SIC with a polyethylene backbone and sulfonated phenyl groups placed every 5th carbon along the backbone (p5PhSA). |
Amalie Frischknecht; |
| 398 | Viscoelastic Response of Ionizable Polymers Melts and Dense Suspensions: Role of Ionic Assemblies Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Driven by their technological significance, numerous efforts have probed the structure and dynamics of ionizable polymers, all pointing to the fact that their structure and … |
Dvora Perahia; |
| 399 | Ion Conduction, Morphology, and Network Formation in A Double-Helix Ionic Polymer Composite Electrolyte Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: I will describe a distinct class of polymeric ion conductors that we term molecular ionic composites (MICs). |
Louis Madsen; |
| 400 | Insights Into The Transport Mechanisms of Water Through Polymer Membranes from Quasielastic and Inelastic Neutron Scattering Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this presentation, I will focus on the general case of water diffusion through three types of materials with very different network structures: tightly cross-linked epoxy resins that are used in structural composites and exhibit very little swelling, loosely cross-linked polyamide membranes that are used as the active layer in a reverse osmosis desalination membranes that contain polar groups and exhibit moderate swelling upon hydration, and ion containing block copolymer alkaline fuel cell membranes that contain transient ionic cross-links and swell significantly with water. |
Christopher Soles; |
| 401 | Charged Polymers with Various Ionic Additives: Phase Behavior, Ion Clustering, and Ion Transport Properties Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, I would like to discuss methods to control the self-assembly and ion diffusion behavior of charged block copolymers by varying the type of tethered ionic moieties, local concentration of embedded ions with controlled electrostatic interactions, and nanoscale morphology. |
Moon Park; |
| 402 | John H. Dillon Medal Award (2022): Toward Quantitative Modeling of Polyelectrolyte Complexation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: A survey of new theoretical and experimental developments on thermodynamics of PEC suggests that electrostatic interactions, though not the only important factor, are essential for successful modeling of PEC. |
Jian Qin; |
| 403 | Modeling The Microemulsion Channel in Ternary Mixtures of AB Diblock Copolymer with A and B Homopolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We discuss an attempt to model this behavior in a manner inspired by older membrane models of the microemulsion phase in small molecule oil-water-surfactant mixtures. |
David Morse ; Mridul Yadav; |
| 404 | Aging Resistant Toughness in Poly(lactide) Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Poly(lactide) is a leading sustainable polymer derived from corn. Both glassy, poly((+/-) lactide) (PLA), and semicrystalline (PLLA) versions of this material suffer from physical … |
Charles McCutcheon ; Christopher Ellison ; Boran Zhao ; Frank Bates ; Kailong Jin; |
| 405 | Measuring The Packing Length in Polymer Simulations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: By measuring entanglement properties and the packing length for a family of bead-spring chains of different bulkiness and flexibility, we observe Lin-Noolandi scaling where it should be valid. |
Scott Milner; |
| 406 | Emerging AI-enhanced Approaches for Polymer Design Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, I will discuss these advances in the context of two examples. |
Juan De Pablo; |
| 407 | Polymer Electrolytes in Heterogenous Media Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we reveal the effect of ionic correlations and dielectric mismatch on the structure and properties of polymer electrolytes in confinement. |
Monica Olvera De La Cruz ; Trung Nguyen ; Felipe Jimenez-Angeles; |
| 408 | Increased Donnan Exclusion at High Salt Concentrations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We will discuss experiments and physical models wherein the magnitude of Donnan exclusion increases with increasing electrolyte concentration. |
Kevin Gao ; Xiaopeng Yu ; Nitash Balsara; |
| 409 | Enhancing Ion Transport in Charged Block Copolymers By Stabilizing Low Symmetry Morphology Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Contrary to the conventional wisdom that block copolymer interfaces act as “dead zone" to significantly deteriorate ion transport, this study establish a prospective avenue for advanced polymer electrolyte having tailor-made interfaces. |
Moon Park; |
| 410 | Coarse-Grained Modeling of Ion Mobility and Conductivity in Block Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Motivated by the large design space of possible polymer architectures and polymer and ion chemistries, along with the need to improve ion transport properties, we study a range of related materials through generic coarse-grained simulations. |
Lisa Hall ; Mengdi Fan ; Yuanhao Zhang; |
| 411 | Quantifying The Effects of Intra-domain Structure and Dynamics on Ion Transport in Nanostructured Block Polymer Electrolytes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present a quantitative framework to account for the effects of polymer architecture, segmental mixing, chain stretching, and confinement on the dynamics of polystyrene‑ block‑poly( oligo-oxyethylene methacrylate) (PS- b-POEM) electrolytes, and we validate this framework through nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy measurements on solid‑state electrolyte samples. |
Thomas Epps; |
| 412 | Modeling The Phase Behavior of Complex Coacervates Formed from Polyelectrolytes and Surfactant Micelles Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we will show how we use a hybrid simulation and field theory calculation to capture the physics of liquid-liquid phase separation in polymer-surfactant micelle coacervates. |
Charles Sing ; Jason Madinya; |
| 413 | Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Polyelectrolyte complexation can be used in the self-assembly of a wide range of responsive, bioinspired soft materials ranging from dehydrated thin films, fibers, and bulk solids … |
Sarah Perry; |
| 414 | A New Computational Method CREASE to Analyze and Interpret Small Angle Scattering Profiles from Polymers and Soft Materials Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk I will present the Computational Reverse Engineering of Scattering Experiments (CREASE) method that we have developed to analyze small angle scattering profiles and interpret assembled structure in macromolecular solutions. |
Arthi Jayaraman; |
| 415 | Self-consistent Field Theory Study of Self-assembly of Bottlebrush Diblock Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we present our recent study on the self-assembly behaviors of bottlebrush diblock copolymers using self-consistent field theory, focusing on the stability of the double gyroid phase in various bottlebrush architectures including coil-bottlebrush copolymers. |
Sojung Park ; Guo Kang Cheong ; Frank Bates ; Kevin Dorfman; |
| 416 | Modeling Chain Packing in Triply Periodic Networks of Self-assembled Block Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we examine the double gyroid (DG) network phase of block copolymer (BCP) melts, a prototypical amphiphilic system and test the link between terminal boundaries of individual blocks to lie along medial sets, a generic and purely geometric definition of the center of complex domain shapes and the thermodynamics of BCP assembly using geometric formulation of the strong stretching theory of BCP melts. |
Abhiram Reddy ; Michael Dimitriyev ; Gregory Grason; |
| 417 | Efficient Back-mapping Between Particle-based and Field-theoretic Simulations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we describe a new approach to conduct multi-resolution simulations that efficiently map between particle-based and field-theoretic simulations. |
Joshua Lequieu; |
| 418 | Effect of Conformational Asymmetry on Self-assembly of Linear–brush Block Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We synthesized a series of linear–brush BCP and explored the effect of conformational asymmetry as function of side-chain length on their self-assembly in bulk. |
Regina Sánchez ; Joshua Mysona ; Juan De Pablo ; Paul Nealey; |
| 419 | Melt Self-Assembly of Bottlebrush Block Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Using SCFT, we map the phase behavior for both symmetrical and asymmetrical arm bottlebrush block copolymers and observe a shifted order-disorder transition. |
Timothy Quah ; Kris Delaney ; Glenn Fredrickson; |
| 420 | How Extreme Conformational Asymmetry Alters The Diblock Copolymer Phase Diagram Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk I present results answering both of these questions obtained through a simulation study of a model copolymer with asymmetric bottlebrush component. |
Joshua Mysona ; Regina Sánchez ; Paul Nealey ; Juan De Pablo; |
| 421 | The Absence of The C36 Laves Phase in Diblock Polymer Melts and Blends Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To provide an explanation for this phenomenon, we used self-consistent field theory to examine the morphology and free energy of Laves phases in both neat diblock polymer melts, where Laves phases are predicted to be metastable, and diblock polymer/core-homopolymer blends. |
Benjamin Magruder ; Kevin Dorfman; |
| 422 | Determining Structure of Lamellar A-b-(B-r-C) Copolymers with Soft X-ray Reflectivity Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have devised a model block copolymer system to systematically tune the interaction parameter, χ, through use of modular A- b-(B- r-C) copolymers. |
Whitney Loo ; Hongbo Feng ; Ricardo Ruiz ; Daniel Sunday ; Paul Nealey; |
| 423 | The Effect of Structural Isomerism on Block Copolymer Self-assembly Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we demonstrate a high throughput platform for a library of well-defined SI-BCPs with identical dispersity and molecular weight. |
Hongbo Feng ; Whitney Loo ; Wen Chen ; Christopher Eom ; Ludwig Schneider ; Stuart Rowan ; Paul Nealey; |
| 424 | Frank-Kasper Phases of Diblock Copolymer Melts Studied with The DPD Model Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have included the dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) model ( i.e., compressible melts of discrete Gaussian chains with the DPD potential) into the newly released C++/CUDA version of PSCF 1, and performed real-space self-consistent field (SCF) calculations of the Frank-Kasper (FK) phases formed by diblock copolymer (DBC) melts based on the DPD model. |
Juntong He ; Qiang Wang; |
| 425 | Apex-dependent Frank-Kasper Phases from Simple Second-generation Dendron Assemblies Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To establish the phase stability regime from the free energy balance of dendron assemblies, we apply enthalpic/entropic effects which accommodate the core interactions of apex functionalities. |
Taesuk Jun ; Seungbae Jeon ; Seungyun Jo ; Byeongdu Lee ; Du Yeol Ryu; |
| 426 | Lattice Transition of Sphere-forming Block Copolymer Thin Films Under Solvent Vapor Annealing Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we report the lattice transition behavior of the sphere-forming BCP thin films under the solvent vapor annealing (SVA) process. |
Seong Eun Kim ; So Youn Kim; |
| 427 | Applying External Stress As A New Strategy to Control Activated Penetrant Motion in Dense Liquids Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We generalize the microscopic self-consistent cooperative hopping theory for dilute penetrant transport in dense matrices to predict the effect of external macroscopic stress. |
Kenneth Schweizer ; Baicheng Mei; |
| 428 | Design-driven Trends in Transport Properties of Artificial Water Channels Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we use atomistic molecular dynamics simulations to study the water mobility and ion rejection characteristics of a range of PAP channels with varying tube diameter, embedded in self-assembled polybutadiene-polyethylene oxide membranes. |
Ritwick Kali ; Scott Milner; |
| 429 | Tuning Ether Motifs in Polymers Membranes for Carbon Capture Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this project, we study the effect of increasing ether oxygen content in the polymer membrane. |
Yasemin Basdogan ; Zhen-Gang Wang; |
| 430 | Modeling Microstructure Formation in Block Copolymer Membranes Using Dynamical Self-consistent Field Theory Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we use dynamical self-consistent field theory to simulate the microstructure evolution of block copolymer membranes during the phase inversion process. |
Douglas Grzetic ; Anthony Cooper ; Alexander Bridge ; Kris Delaney ; Glenn Fredrickson ; Benny Freeman; |
| 431 | Origins of Cation-cation Selectivity in Crown Ether-functionalized Polymer Membranes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we assess how incorporating crown ethers, which form host-guest complexes with monovalent cations, into poly(norbornene) networks impacts the selective partitioning and diffusion of alkali cations. |
Everett Zofchak ; Zidan Zhang ; Nico Marioni ; Tyler Duncan ; Harnoor Sachar ; Benny Freeman ; Venkatraghavan Ganesan; |
| 432 | Molecular Simulations of Water Vapor Adsorption in Hygroscopic Polymer-Solvent Mixtures Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Advanced polymer-based desiccants have the ability to adsorb water vapor for dehumidification and atmospheric water harvesting applications. Molecular simulations are conducted to … |
James Zhang ; Shaoting Lin ; Xuanhe Zhao; |
| 433 | Preferential Transport of Divalent Ions Through PEDOT:PSS Membranes and Coatings Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This work demonstrates a new and readily available polymeric material for selective extraction of divalent ions. |
Njideka Nnorom ; Tanya Rogers ; Amit Jain ; Abdullah Alazmi ; Welman Elias ; Michael Wong ; Rafael Verduzco; |
| 434 | Modeling The Self-assembly of Block Copolymers Upon Solvent Evaporation in Thin Films with Dynamical Self-consistent Field Theory Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We use Dynamical Self-consistent Field Theory (DSCFT) to model the evaporation of a diblock copolymer solution by controlling the rate of solvent diffusion out of the film. |
Anthony Cooper ; Douglas Grzetic ; Alexander Bridge ; Kris Delaney ; Glenn Fredrickson ; Benny Freeman; |
| 435 | Simulating Chemical Transport in Functionalized Polymer-particle Composites Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk we report on molecular dynamics calculations designed to model particle surfaces that have been modified by the addition of functional groups. |
Adam Hinkle ; Matthew Browe ; Mark Varady; |
| 436 | Microscopic Theory for The Activated Dynamics of Molecules in Polymer Melts and Crosslink Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We construct a microscopic force level theory for the activated dynamics of dilute molecules of variable shape in dense polymer melts and crosslinked networks. |
Baicheng Mei ; Kenneth Schweizer; |
| 437 | Impact of Ionic Correlations on The Selective Transport of Salts Through Polymer Membranes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We employ molecular dynamics simulations to probe the effect of membrane chemistry and feed composition on the diffusivity selectivity of salts in a binary mixture. |
Harnoor Sachar ; Nico Marioni ; Everett Zofchak ; Zidan Zhang ; Sanket Kadulkar ; Tyler Duncan ; Venkatraghavan Ganesan; |
| 438 | Gas Diffusion in Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticle Melts Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To this end, we use coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations, systematically varying the size of the gas particles as well as the grafting density and chain length of the PGNPs. |
Arash Nikoubashman ; Elias Zirdehi ; Jiarul Midya ; Michael Rubinstein ; Sanat Kumar; |
| 439 | Liquid-liquid Phase Separation Between Jammed Soft Particles Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this presentation, we will discuss our investigations of LLPS within jammed emulsions. |
Senthilkumar Duraivel ; Thomas Angelini; |
| 440 | Obtaining Stable Bicontinuous Cubic Structures in Lyotropic Liquid Crystals Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To that end, we use molecular dynamics simulations to study the structure and transport through these membranes. |
Subin Sahu ; Nathanael Schwindt ; Michael Shirts; |
| 441 | Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Ionogels Under Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear (LAOS) Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, ionogels are prepared from LLCs of poloxamer/ionic liquid/oil. |
Alireza Bandegi ; Reza Foudazi; |
| 442 | Effect of Charged Block Sequence on Dilute Polyampholyte Solution Behavior Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This study demonstrates charge sequence is as notable as charge density and symmetry in tuning PA materials. |
Winnie Shi ; Rohan Sridhar ; Walter Chapman ; Dilip Asthagiri ; Amanda Marciel; |
| 443 | Effect of Co-ions on The Self-Assembly Behavior of Macroions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In order to overcome these difficulties, a coarse-grained(CG) model was developed to capture the main features of macroions and compare it with an ideal model system of macroions to validate our method. |
Kun Qian ; Jiahui Chen ; Tianbo Liu ; Mesfin Tsige; |
| 444 | Polarity Controlled Lithium Salt Partition in Diblock Copolymers and Polymer Blends Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We hypothesize that blending two polymers, one with fast dynamics (low viscosity) and the other with high polarities (strong ionic solvation), may be a viable strategy to mitigate the aforementioned limit. |
Congzhi Zhu; |
| 445 | Multiscale Modeling Approach of Multicompartment Micellization Towards Nano-Reactor Application Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Therefore, the overarching goal in this study is to establish a computational method for quantitative assessment of Chi parameter for molecular pairs using DFT and molecular mechanics simulation. |
Seung Soon Jang; |
| 446 | Understanding Coupled Transport in Semiconducting Polymers for Analysis of Energetic Trace Materials Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: By properly preparing the OECT sensor, we explain the contributions of both the channel and electrolyte gate composition in ion and charge transport in these mixed conducting macromolecular systems. |
Aaron Woeppel ; Bryan Boudouris ; Stephen Beaudoin; |
| 447 | Plastic Crystal-embedded Elastomeric Electrolytes for High-energy Solid-state Lithium Metal Batteries Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we report a new class of elastomeric solid-state electrolytes having a three-dimensionally interconnected plastic crystal phase with an unprecedented combination of mechanical robustness, high ionic conductivity, low interfacial resistance, and high lithium-ion transference number. |
Junghun Han ; Bumjoon Kim; |
| 448 | How Does Morphology Impact The Mechanical Properties of Ultrathin Block Copolymer Films? Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We use poly(styrene-b-2-vinylpyridine) as a model system, where the block copolymer domains have similar properties. |
Cynthia Bukowski ; Alfred Crosby; |
| 449 | Effect of Electrostatic and Hydrophobic Interactions on The Rheology of Aqueous Dispersions of OSA-Modified Phytoglycogen Nanoparticles Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: For OSA HDS-modified PG dispersions, hydrophobic interactions were more significant and we observed evidence for clustering of the particles with added NaCl. |
Hurmiz Shamana ; Carley Miki ; John Dutcher; |
| 450 | Hydration Properties of Chemically Modified Phytoglycogen Nanoparticles Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: I will describe the hydration properties of PG nanoparticles that were modified using either anionic (carboxymethylation; CM-PG) or cationic (glycidyltrimethylammonium chloride; GTAC-PG) groups. |
Carley Miki ; Michael Grossutti ; John Dutcher; |
| 451 | Finite Element Modeling of Shapeshifters Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present Morpho, a programmable environment for finite element modeling of shape, including shape optimization and shape shifting. |
Daniel Goldstein; |
| 452 | Morphing Flat Sheets to 3D Curved Surfaces with Optimal Mechanical Performance Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we report an optimal cutting approach to transform plies of two-dimensional (2D) inextensible yet flexible composite laminate into 3D doubly-curved surfaces with optimized mechanical properties. |
Lishuai Jin ; Michael Yeager ; Young-Joo Lee ; Daniel O’Brien ; Shu Yang; |
| 453 | The Role of Symmetry and Patterning in Hierarchical Multistable Metasheets Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This work investigates the interrelations between unit cells and spatial arrangement in the hierarchical multistable behavior of patterned metasheets. |
Juan Osorio ; Andres Arrieta; |
| 454 | Tristable Kirigami Architecture for Mechanical Logic Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To simplify the design process, we introduce a single kirigami-inspired tristable architecture that not only encodes mechanical memory but also performs fundamental logic computing. |
Yi Yang ; Douglas Holmes; |
| 455 | Multimodal Locomotion Via Folding of A Degree-four Vertex Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we show that folding one of the simplest origami building blocks —a rigid, degree-four vertex— can lead to locomotion. |
Laura Pernigoni ; Davood Farhadi ; David Melancon ; Antonio Grande ; Katia Bertoldi; |
| 456 | A Machine Learning Approach to Inverse Design of Programmable Liquid Crystal Elastomers: Morphing Surfaces Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present a novel machine learning approach to address the inverse problem for LCE coatings on a rigid substrate, morphing to a target topography[1]. |
Badel Mbanga ; Youssef Mosaddeghian Golestani ; Michael Varga ; Robin Selinger; |
| 457 | Configuration Space Engineering: Controlling Configuration Space Topology with Geometry Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we present a method for understanding these mechanisms by introducing a tensor field formalism that governs the location of singular points. |
Mary Elizabeth Lee-Trimble ; Michelle Berry ; Christian Santangelo; |
| 458 | Configuration Space Engineering: Gating Mechanisms By Controlling Configuration Space Topology Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we approach designing linkages from another angle by designing the topology of the linkage’s configuration space. |
Michelle Berry ; David Limberg ; Mary Elizabeth Lee-Trimble ; Ryan Hayward ; Christian Santangelo; |
| 459 | How The Singing Saw Gets Its Voice Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: By using experiments, theoretical and numerical analysis, we demonstrate that spatially varying curvature in a thin shell can localize topologically protected modes at inflection lines, akin to exotic edge states in topological insulators. |
Suraj Shankar ; Petur Bryde ; L Mahadevan; |
| 460 | Kinetic Wavelength Selection in An Unsupported Annulus Contracted Radially at The Inner Boundary Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we propose a kinetic mechanism in which the wavelength is set by a combination of dynamic wrinkling wavelengths [2], and wavelength coarsening features called ‘wrinklons’ [3]. |
Anshuman Pal; |
| 461 | Morphing with Diamonds Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We discuss two applications of this general principle. |
Maïka Saint-Jean ; Etienne Reyssat ; Benoit Roman ; Jose Bico; |
| 462 | Soft Kirigami Composite That Deploys Into Pre-programmed Shapes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We report soft composites with multiple layers that morph from a planar form into pre-programmed 3D shapes. |
Mohammad Khalid Jawed ; Mrunmayi Mungekar ; Vishal Kackar ; Shyan Shokrzadeh ; Leixin Ma ; Wenzhong Yan ; Vwani Roychowdhury; |
| 463 | Two-photon Printing of Polymer Networks with Circular Dichroic Memory Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Metamaterial structures are fabricated with periodic length scales below incident light wavelengths, imparting properties that were not present in the bulk state such as negative … |
Madelyn Jeske ; Mitchell Anthamatten; |
| 464 | Shape Fluctuations of Fluidized Vesicles Driven By Dilute Active Nematics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Motivated by recent experiments on the microtubule-kinesin active nematics confined in vesicles, we study a microscopic particle-based model of semiflexible polymers with nematic activity confined in fluid vesicles. |
Sarvesh Uplap ; Michael Hagan ; Aparna Baskaran ; Alfredo Sciortino ; Hammad Faizi ; Andreas Bausch ; Petia Vlahovska ; Zvonimir Dogic; |
| 465 | Osmosis-driven, Non-vascular-plant-inspired Soft Composites Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we demonstrate that a synthetic, plant tissue analog (PTA) can mimic the closed-cell structure and osmotic actuation of non-vascular plant tissue, enabling the emergence of turgor-pressure-induced stiffness and leading to more forceful swelling deformations. |
Shelby Hutchens ; Amrita Kataruka; |
| 466 | Mechanics and Fracture Properties of Soft Disordered Networks in Cartilage and Cartilage Inspired Materials Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: I will discuss the structural origins of AC’s exceptional mechanical properties using the framework of rigidity percolation theory applied to composite materials and compare our predictions with experiments. |
Moumita Das; |
| 467 | Rigidity Percolation in A Random Tensegrity Via Analytic Graph Theory Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we consider large tensegrity structures with randomly placed cables (and struts) overlaid on a regular rigid backbone whose corresponding system of inequalities is reduced via analytic theory to an exact graph theory. |
Zeb Rocklin ; James McInerney ; Michael Czajkowski ; William Stephenson ; Vishal Sudhakar; |
| 468 | Self-organized Buckling Patterns Underlie Transition from Macroscopic Extension to Contraction in Active Nonlinear Elastic Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We observe a transition from linear and non-linear extensility to global contractile behavior. |
Kanaya Malakar ; John Berezney ; Deshpreet Bedi ; Daniel Goldstein ; Bulbul Chakraborty; |
| 469 | Deformation and Break-up of 3D-Printed Soft Elastic Solids Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: By leveraging the highly tunable material properties of these packed microgel systems, we systematically explore the stability of 3D-printed beams across a range of yield stresses and beam diameters. |
Christopher O’Bryan; |
| 470 | Trainability in Biopolymer-inspired Disordered Spring Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Inspired by this, we introduce a disordered spring network model that shows the basic features observed in biopolymer networks, including force/strain-induced changes in topology. |
Marco Aurelio Galvani Cunha ; John Crocker ; Andrea Liu; |
| 471 | Relaxation in Network Materials: The Contribution of The Network Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work we focus on the contribution of the network to this process. |
Catalin Picu ; Nabeel Amjad; |
| 472 | Strain-induced Critical Slowing of Stress Relaxation in Disordered Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We show that the rheology of these networks is controlled by a pre-strain-controlled correlation length and corresponding characteristic relaxation time that both diverge at a connectivity-controlled critical point, giving rise to weak power law scaling of the complex modulus with frequency and diverging strain fluctuations. |
Jordan Shivers ; Abhinav Sharma ; Fred MacKintosh; |
| 473 | Mechanics of Sub-isostatic Fiber Networks at A Finite Temperature Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: It has been shown that a simple coarse-grained model of spring networks with bending interactions can capture the rheology of real biopolymers. |
Sadjad Arzash ; Anupama Gannavarapu ; Amanda Marciel ; Fred MacKintosh; |
| 474 | Hole Closure in Sheets of Active Deformable Particles Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We propose the deformable particle (DP) model to study the mechanics of hole closure in epithelial sheets, where the cells are modeled as individual deformable polygons with N v vertices whose positions are determined by a shape-energy function with terms that control the cell area, perimeter, and curvature. |
Andrew Ton ; Corey O’Hern ; Mark Shattuck; |
| 475 | Phase Separation and Viscoelastic Ripening in Crosslinked Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We generalize our theory to systems with arbitrary power-law relaxation behavior and discuss our findings in the context of the long-term stability of materials and recent experimental results on phase separation in cross-linked networks and cell cytoskeleton. |
Tine Curk ; Erik Luijten; |
| 476 | Mesoscopic States of A Network of Randomly Packed Rods Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we consider mesoscopic states of a random rod network to quantitatively describe such microscopic interactions. |
Yeonsu Jung ; Thomas Plumb-Reyes ; Anna Lappala ; Hao-Yu Lin ; L Mahadevan; |
| 477 | Disordered Topological Metamaterials Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we will present our investigation on mechanisms for encoding topological material properties into packing-derived disordered networks. |
Ethan Stanifer; |
| 478 | Fast Detection of Early-stage Damage in Soft Elastomers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our insight of the coupling between ongoing molecule damage and dynamic mechanical response will also provide us complete vision to the research of fracture mechanism and advanced molecular design for soft material development. |
Jianzhu Ju ; Costantino Creton ; Tetsuharu Narita ; Luca Cipelletti ; Gabriel Sanoja ; Chung Yuen Hui; |
| 479 | DPOLY Business Meeting Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: DPOLY Business Meeting Tuesday, March 15, 2022 6:15 PM- 7:15 PM … |
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| 480 | Mixed Charge Transport in Conjugated Polymers and Its Impact on Biosensor Performance Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, I will introduce the class of conjugated polymers that have been used in OECT channels and methods to benchmark their performance. |
Sahika Inal; |
| 481 | Understanding The Transient Behavior of Organic Electrochemical Transistors Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we extend our 2D model [1] used previously to study the steady state and scaling laws of OECTs [2,3], to include transient effects. |
Pushpa Paudel ; Michael Skowrons ; Drona Dahal ; Chathuranga Prageeth Rajapaksha ; Raj Kishen Krishnan ; Antal Jakli ; Bjorn Lussem; |
| 482 | Radical Polymer-based Organic Electrochemical Transistors Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: As such, this effort presents a design platform by which to readily create tailored OECT response through strategic macromolecular selection and polymer processing. |
Ho Joong Kim ; Kuluni Perera ; Zihao Liang ; Jianguo Mei ; Bryan Boudouris; |
| 483 | Sensitive and Specific Virus and Protein Detection Using Organic Electrochemical Transistors Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This work demonstrates that OECTs are effective devices for rapid, sensitive, and specific detection of target viruses. |
Yilin Li ; Ying Zhou ; Casper Huang ; Pedro Alvarez ; Yizhi Tao ; Rafael Verduzco; |
| 484 | Understanding The Role of Electrode Composition on The Current-voltage Response of Cu/PEDOT: PSS/ITO Memristive Device Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Therefore, through i-v measurements and microscopy techniques, we aim to reveal the role of dissimilar electrodes on the switching mechanism of the planar Cu/PEDOT:PSS/ITO device. |
Subhadeep Koner ; Stephen Sarles; |
| 485 | To Pattern or Not to Pattern? Selecting Side-Chains for Mixed Conducting Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this presentation, I will describe our recent development of coarse-grained model of mixed conductors that can be used to study the relationships between OMIEC morphology, charge transport, and ion transport. |
Brett Savoie; |
| 486 | Revealing The Intricate Optical Spectra of Organic Open-Shell Conjugated Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Herein, we investigate the optoelectronic properties of open-shell D-A polymers using density functional theory (DFT) and advanced computational methods such as GW approximation and Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE). |
Neeraj Rai ; Chandra Sarap ; Yashpal Singh; |
| 487 | Predicting Molecular Charge Transport in Radical Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have observed an apparent mismatch between the configurations that are energetically favorable and those that maximize charge transfer, and the configurational averaging for these quantities could vary by several orders of magnitude. |
Ying Tan ; Bryan Boudouris ; Brett Savoie; |
| 488 | Predicting Electronic Properties of Radical Polymers at Coarse-Grained Resolutions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we use machine learning (ML) to predict electronic-structure information pertaining to charge transport at coarse-grained (CG) resolutions. |
Riccardo Alessandri ; Juan De Pablo; |
| 489 | Structure-Magnetic Property Relationships in Radical Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Interest in open-shell polymers capable of magnetic interactions has increased in recent years due to fundamental and applied efforts. Specifically, radical polymers present new … |
Siddhartha Akkiraju ; Bryan Boudouris; |
| 490 | Rate-Dependent Damage and Fracture of Dynamic Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This presentation will discuss a theoretical framework, a.k.a., the transient network theory (TNT) that provides a useful tool to track the chain conformation space of a dynamic polymer network. |
Franck Vernerey; |
| 491 | Energy Dissipation After Chain Scission in Polymer Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, I will describe our simulations attempting to uncover how the energy dissipated depends on the polymer strand length, the network volume fraction, and defect concentration in the network. |
Han Zhang ; Ziyu Ye ; Robert Riggleman; |
| 492 | Fracture Mechanics of Polymers: Plastics and Elastomers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this presentation we examine a unifying framework for fracture of polymers. |
Shi-Qing Wang ; Travis Smith ; Chaitanya Ramanand Gupta ; Zehao Fan; |
| 493 | Mechanical Effects of Topological Entanglement and Knotting of Linear Chains in A Melt Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We use tools from topology, the Gauss linking integral and the Jones polynomial, to measure entanglement in polymer melts of linear chains using computer simulations. |
Eleni Panagiotou; |
| 494 | Understanding Elasticity of Polydisperse Polymer Networks By A Stochastic Method Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Classical theory, like affine and phantom models, is well established and has enjoyed great success, with an assumption that the network comprises only of monodisperse polymer chains. |
Weikang Xian ; Amitesh Maiti ; Andrew Saab ; Ying Li; |
| 495 | Engineering The Toughness of Silicone Elastomers: Theory and Experiments Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This work uses a combination of simulations and experiments to enable the design of silicone elastomers with improved fracture properties compared with existing commercial elastomers. |
Akash Arora ; Rocky Zhu ; Jon Degroot ; Eric Joffre ; Zachary Kean ; Steven Arturo; |
| 496 | Fracture, Fatigue, and Friction of Polymers in Which Entanglements Greatly Outnumber Cross-links Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We demonstrate that such polymers resolve a long-standing conflict: crosslinks stiffen polymers but embrittle them. |
Junsoo Kim ; Guogao Zhang ; Meixuanzi Shi ; Zhigang Suo; |
| 497 | Controlling Topology and Mechanical Properties of Polymer Networks Through Kinetics of Gelation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We gelled model poly(ethyl glycidyl ether) networks with two organoaluminum-based catalysts, and investigated the relationship between rate of gelation, network architecture, and mechanical properties. |
Aaliyah Dookhith ; Nathaniel Lynd ; Costantino Creton ; Gabriel Sanoja; |
| 498 | Effects of Crosslink Homogeneity on The High Strain Behavior of Elastic Polymer Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we address this problem using a double network approach, in which the network of interest is swollen in a mixture of monomer and cross linkers that is then polymerized to generate a secondary network that helps dissipate stress, delay fracture, and "lock" the first network in a higher strain state. |
Victoria Kong ; Thomas Staunton ; Jennifer Laaser; |
| 499 | A Molecular-Level Theory for Predicting Rheological Behavior of Dynamically Associating Polymer Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To that end, we present a new theory that incorporates experimentally controllable molecular-level parameters (concentration, chain length, unbinding rate) to fully capture the rheological behavior of physically associating gels. |
Pamela Cai ; Andrew Spakowitz ; Sarah Heilshorn ; Matthew Webber ; Brad Krajina; |
| 500 | Controlling Network Relaxation and Modulus with Dynamic Covalent Chemistry and Salt Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Polymer networks with dynamic bonds are a promising route to sustainable materials, but many questions remain about the relationships between molecular structure and dynamics or … |
Christopher Evans ; Brian Jing ; Seongon Jang; |
| 501 | Dynamic Covalent Polymer Networks Under Supersonic Micro-Projectile Impact Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Dynamic bonding brings new features to polymeric materials, including new modes of energy dissipation and self-healing under quasi-static deformation. The behavior of dynamically … |
Zhen Sang ; Qing Zhou ; Wenpeng Shan ; Hongkyu Eoh ; Jinho Hyon ; Frank Gardea ; Svetlana Sukhishvili ; Edwin Thomas; |
| 502 | Structure Formation in Polyelectrolyte Coacervates Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We show how associative behavior within the homogeneous phase enhances the concentration fluctuations upon approach to the phase boundary. |
Vivek Prabhu; |
| 503 | Electrostatic Persistence Length of Collagen Type II Protofibrils and Fibrils Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have investigated the electrostatic contribution to l p of collagen type II by changing the solution ionic strength ( I) of solutions at pH 2, where the collagen is positively charged, and pH 7.4, where collagen has both charges. |
Kathryn Wilcox ; Grace Kemerer ; Svetlana Morozova; |
| 504 | Free Energy Trajectory and Transition State of Chain Expulsion from A Block Copolymer Micelle Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We will present results for the effect of the block lengths of the expelled chain and the interaction energy between the core beads and the solvent, and their effect on the core block conformation at the transition state. |
Sarah Seeger ; Kevin Dorfman ; Timothy Lodge; |
| 505 | Label-free Characterization of Aqueous Micelle Nanostructure and Dynamics Via In-situ RSoXS Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we demonstrate a novel technique capable of such measurements based on resonant soft X-ray scattering (RSoXS), which uniquely probes organic materials using their intrinsic chemical bonds rather than laborious and disruptive labeling techniques. |
Devin Grabner ; Terry McAfee ; Thomas Ferron ; Phillip Pickett ; Charles McCormick ; Isvar Cordova ; Cheng Wang ; Brian Collins; |
| 506 | Chain Conformations and Phase Separation in Polymer Solutions with Varying Solvent Quality Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Molecular dynamics simulations are used to investigate chain conformations in polymer solutions. Results show that when the polymer-solvent interaction is unfavorable, the chain … |
Yisheng Huang ; Shengfeng Cheng; |
| 507 | Chain-End Attraction Causes Excess Scattering in Simple Polymer Solutions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this contribution, we explain two observations of excess scattering in semi-dilute polystyrene solutions: (1) low- q excess scattering indicating long-range concentration fluctuations despite marginally good solvent conditions and (2) excess scattering near qRg = 1, when crowded by contrast-matched chains. |
Tyler Martin ; Avanish Bharati ; Katie Weigandt ; Steven Hudson; |
| 508 | Unraveling The Side Chain Effects on Chain Conformation of Donor-Accepter Conjugated Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we systematically studied the effect of side-chain length and branch point on the chain conformation of diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) and isoindigo (IID) based polymers. |
Zhiqiang Cao ; Zhaofan Li ; Miao Xiong ; Guorong Ma ; Luke Galuska ; Song Zhang ; Michael Ocheje ; Gage Mason ; Changwoo Do ; Kunlun Hong ; Ting Lei ; Simon Rondeau-Gagné ; Wenjie Xia ; Xiaodan Gu; |
| 509 | Structure-based Coarse Graining of Homopolymer Solutions: Designing The Implicit-Solvent Model with PRISM Theory Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we take a simple model system of homopolymer solutions as an example to examine the features of the effective pair potential between polymer segments in the IS model that is designed, using the well-developed polymer reference interaction site model (PRISM) theory, to reproduce the pair correlation functions between polymer segments in the corresponding ES model. |
Yan Wang ; Jiawei Zhang ; Qiang Wang ; Baohui Li ; Suyu Wang; |
| 510 | Computational Study Linking Polysulfamide Chain Design to The Hydrogen Bonding Induced Chain Aggregation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present a computational study of polysulfamide chains and their assembly driven by hydrogen bonding interactions between the sulfamide groups. |
Zijie Wu ; Jiun-Wei Wu ; Quentin Michaudel ; Arthi Jayaraman; |
| 511 | Compositional and Environmental Dependence of Random Heteropolymer Behavior in Solution Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our work shows multiple dynamic modes and heterogeneous surfaces in water, properties which scale predominantly with composition rather than particular sequence motifs. |
Shayna Hilburg ; Ting Xu ; Alfredo Alexander-Katz; |
| 512 | Revisiting The Lennard-Jones Implicit Solvent Model for The Simulation of Dilute Polymer Solutions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In the Flory-Huggins theory, the conformation of a polymer chain in dilute solution can be directly connected to an excluded volume,ν, resulting in a universal scaling behavior and verifying the scaling behavior has been a subject of numerous experimental and computational studies. |
Hao Guo ; Kun Qian ; Mesfin Tsige; |
| 513 | Synthesis and Characterization of Sulfoxide-functional Polyethers in Low Temperature Aqueous Environments Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this presentation, I will describe our efforts in the design and synthesis of improved cryoprotective polymeric materials and how design has been guided by investigation of polymer-water-ice-cellular interactions, and also post-thaw viability assays of model cell lines. |
Nathaniel Lynd; |
| 514 | Monitoring Polymerization of Conjugated Polymers on Nanoparticles: A SANS Study Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This study shows that the polymerization of PPy was more affected by the base material properties than PANI. |
Lilin He ; Sofia Fanourakis ; Sharona Barroga ; Jem Valerie Perez ; Debora Rodrigues; |
| 515 | Phase Separation in Alpha-synuclein Solution Through Micro-structural Organization Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To shed light onto the structural organization of alpha-synuclein aggregates, we investigate the phase behavior using multi-scale numerical simulations. |
Shibananda Das ; Murugappan Muthukumar; |
| 516 | The Importance of The Σ-hole in The Self-assembly of Halogenated Peptoid Nanosheets Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, a series of amphiphilic diblock copolypeptoids were synthesized with a standard phenyl or a halogenated phenyl in the side chain. |
Morgan Seidler ; Nan Li ; Sunting Xuan ; Xubo Luo ; David Prendergast ; Ronald Zuckermann ; Nitash Balsara ; Xi Jiang; |
| 517 | Interplay Between Physical Interactions Controls Chiral Discrimination During The Self-assembly of Chiral Metal-organic Cages Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Previously, we showed that presence of N-(tert-Butoxycarbonyl) (Boc)-protected D- and L-alanine as chiral counterions can induce totally different self-assembly behavior. |
Ehsan Raee ; Bingqing Liu ; Yuqing Yang ; Trishool Namani ; Nita Sahai ; Xiaopeng Li ; Tianbo Liu; |
| 518 | Self-assembled Polypeptoid Nanostructures Revealed By 3-D Cryogenic Electron Microscopy Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our imaging approach is robust and enables the direct 3-D visualization of the arrangement of polypeptoid backbones and side chains in the self-assembled nanostructures. |
Tianyi Yu ; Xubo Luo ; David Prendergast ; Nitash Balsara ; Ronald Zuckermann ; Xi Jiang; |
| 519 | Controlling and Patterning Polyelectrolyte Liquid Droplets with Electric Field Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: From a materials point of view, a surfactant stabilized oil droplet in water could serve this purpose. |
Aman Agrawal ; Matthew Tirrell ; Jack Douglas ; Alamgir Karim; |
| 520 | Pattern Formation in Electro-responsive Polymer Ionic Liquid Blends Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we explore polymer-ionic liquid (PIL) systems and demonstrate the formation of intricate ordered patterns in these systems using an external electric field. |
Ashima Choudhury ; Pratyush Dayal; |
| 521 | Micelle Dimerization in Melts of Asymmetric Diblock Copolymer Chains Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we perform coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations on asymmetric diblock copolymer chains having a minority block volume fraction of 0.125. |
Anshul Chawla ; Frank Bates ; Kevin Dorfman ; David Morse; |
| 522 | Effect of End-block Asymmetry on The Packing of ABA Triblock Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We examine the packing of polystyrene-b-poly(ethylene- alt-propylene)- b-polystyrene (SEPS) copolymers at constant composition (25% polystyrene) but varying the ratio of the length of one styrene block to the other, from 0 ( i.e., a diblock) to 1 (a symmetric triblock). |
Timothy Lodge ; Jiahao Zhu ; En Wang ; Frank Bates; |
| 523 | Self-Assembly of Coil-Bottlebrush Block Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: By a combination of molecular and structural characterization methods, we show that the shape of the polymer and the identity of the coil block give significant control over the compositions, compositional window size, and molecular weights available for network formation. |
Lucy Liberman ; McKenzie Coughlin ; Frank Bates ; Timothy Lodge; |
| 524 | Understanding Molecular Driving Force of Self-assembly in Highly Charged Soft Materials Systems Via Predictive Molecular Simulations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, I’ll present our ongoing efforts to understand these highly charged systems through predictive molecular simulations, with a focus on an acid-tethered block copolymer system incorporating ionic liquids, for which experiments showed diverse morphology including low symmetry A15 phase with varying conditions. |
Chang Yun Son; |
| 525 | Self-assembly of Asymmetric Poly(styrene)-block-poly(methacrylic Acid) Polyelectrolyte-neutral Diblock Copolymer in Aqueous Solution By Explicit Atomistic MD Simulations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: The micelle mechanism, structure, hydration, and thermodynamics of asymmetric poly(styrene)-block-poly(methacrylic acid) polyelectrolyte-neutral block copolymer chains in … |
Pooja Sahu; |
| 526 | Electrostatic Stabilization of Low Symmetry Morphology in Block Copolymer Electrolytes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In present study, we investigated a role of electrostatic interactions in phase behavior of block copolymer electrolytes. |
Jaemin Min ; Moon Jeong Park; |
| 527 | Surprises in The Liquid-liquid Phase Separation of Multivalent DNA Complexes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, I will describe a straightforward microfluidics-based approach for constructing the phase diagram of DNA nanostars. |
Anjali Sharma ; Tianhao Li ; William Jacobs ; William Rogers; |
| 528 | Bulk Light-scattering Measurements of Viral Capsid Self-assembly Around RNA Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To better understand this process, we modify the interactions between coat proteins and between the coat proteins and RNA of MS2 bacteriophage in vitro by varying the capsid protein concentration, RNA concentration, ionic strength and pH, and we study the assembly using dynamic and static light scattering. |
LaNell Williams ; Timothy Chiang ; Vinothan Manoharan; |
| 529 | Do Active Nematic Self-mixing Dynamics Offer Evolutionary Benefits to Growing Bacterial Colonies? Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To study whether growth-driven active nematic physics could benefit bacteria evolutionarily, we conduct agent-based simulations of growing, dividing, and sterically repelling rod-like bacteria of various aspect ratios, and we analyze the results with tools from both active matter and population genetics. |
Daniel Beller ; Fabian Jan Schwarzendahl; |
| 530 | Dense Topological Defects in Weak Active Nematics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we describe a new type of defects in weakly interacting active nematics that exhibit particle mass condensation and active particle currents near their center. |
Ivan Maryshev ; Timo Kruger ; Erwin Frey; |
| 531 | Hierarchical Self-organization in Signaling Polar Active Matter Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We propose a model for signaling active matter that endows self-propelled polar agents with information processing and signal relaying capabilities. |
Alexander Ziepke ; Ivan Maryshev ; Igor Aronson ; Erwin Frey; |
| 532 | Spatial Control of Topological Defects Through Activity Patterning Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Remarkably, by tuning the sharpness of the activity gradient, we find a dramatic flip in the topological charge distribution along active-passive interfaces, that we explain via an interplay between defect self-propulsion and diffusion. |
Luca Scharrer ; Mark Bowick ; Cristina Marchetti ; Suraj Shankar; |
| 533 | Two-temperature Activity Drives Liquid-crystal and Crystalline Order in Soft Repulsive Spherocylinders Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We study the scalar activity induced phase separation and liquid crystal ordering in a system of Soft Repulsive Spherocylinders (SRS) of various aspect ratios (L/D). |
Jayeeta Chattopadhyay ; Sindhana Pannir-Sivajothi ; Kaarthik Varma ; Sriram Ramaswamy ; Chandan Dasgupta ; Prabal Maiti; |
| 534 | Buckling Instability in 3D Active Nematics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study we investigate how this active filamentous structures promote nonequilibrium processes induced by active stress at the microscale. |
Tobias Struebing ; Amir Khosravanizadeh ; Andrej Vilfan ; Eberhard Bodenschatz ; Ramin Golestanian ; Isabella Guido; |
| 535 | Data-driven Continuum Modeling of Active Nematics Via Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We here present a model extracted directly from experimental image data via the "sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics" (SINDy) data-driven modeling technique. |
Connor Robertson ; Anand Oza ; Travis Askham; |
| 536 | Interplay of Driven Flow and Active Stress in Tumbling Nematic Liquids Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we use hydrodynamic simulations to address this question. |
Weiqiang WANG ; Rui Zhang; |
| 537 | 3D-induced Polar Order and Topological Defects in Growing Bacterial Populations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we study the role of cellular alignment and topological defects in colony formation of non-motile E. coli populations. |
Kazumasa Takeuchi ; Takuro Shimaya; |
| 538 | Density-dependent Collective Behaviour in Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we present a quantitative measurement of phototaxis of single-celled biflagellate microalgae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii using high spatiotemporal video microscopy. |
Sujeet Choudhary ; Aparna Baskaran ; Prerna Sharma; |
| 539 | Universal Scaling in The Turbulence of Active Flow-aligning Nematics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This model takes a particularly simple form as it excludes i) topological defects and ii) the nonlinear flow alignment coupling ν. |
Ido Lavi ; Ricard Alert ; Jean-François Joanny ; Jaume Casademunt; |
| 540 | Transitional Turbulence in Active Nematic Channel Flow: Phase Space Geometry and Exact Coherent Structures Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we apply this framework to active nematic channel flows exhibiting transitional turbulence, obtaining a reduced order—but fully nonlinear—description of the turbulent dynamics. |
Caleb Wagner ; Michael Norton ; Jae Sung Park ; Piyush Grover; |
| 541 | "Impact of E-cigarette Flavor Compounds and Additives on Lipid Membrane Diffusion" Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: For that purpose, we investigate the impact of additives on membrane fluidity by measuring lateral diffusion in surfactant membranes using Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP). |
Rayner Hernandez Perez ; Jocelyn Ochoa ; Linda Hirst; |
| 542 | Microrheology of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Biofilms Grown in Wound Beds Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To understand collagen interactions with biofilms, we study biofilms grown from a range of mutant strains of PAO1 P. aeruginosa that lack polysaccharide components of extra polymeric substance. |
Gordon Christopher ; Vernita Gordon ; Kendra Rumbaugh ; Minhaz Rahman ; Liyun Wang ; Derek Fleming; |
| 543 | How Surface Fluidity Impacts The Mechanics of Biofilm Adhesion Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We will present results on the dependence of biofilm formation versus the brush height ranging from 500 nm to 10 μm. |
Katherine Powell ; Jessica Faubel ; Robert Edmiston ; Ellen Park ; Jennifer Curtis; |
| 544 | Bayesian Estimation of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Viscoelastic Properties Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: For this purpose, we developed a mathematical model to study the rheological behavior of components of three biofilms: P. aeruginosa PAO1, isogenic PAO1ΔwspF, and their mucoid variant PAO1mucA22. |
Mohammad Nooranidoost ; NG Cogan ; M. Yousuff Hussaini; |
| 545 | Microgels from Food Waste As A Tool to Understand Microbe Interactions with Hierarchical Fiber Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our work focuses on demystifying the structure-function relationships of indigestible fibrous biomaterials and the effects of structural hierarchy on toxin binding and microbial interactions. |
Symone Alexander; |
| 546 | Live Imaging Reveals Connections Between Aggregation and Competition Among A Pair of Gut Bacterial Species Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We focus on the role of physical factors such as spatial structure on inter-species competition, examining a pair of bacterial species native to the zebrafish gut, namely Aeromonas (AE) and Enterobacter (EN), that both form dense aggregates with similar spatial distributions in the intestine. |
Deepika Sundarraman ; Jarrod Smith ; Jade Kast ; Karen Guillemin ; Raghuveer Parthasarathy; |
| 547 | Role of Surface Interactions in Bacterial Biofilms Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we use interferometry to look at the three-dimensional surface morphology of biofilms and investigate the effect of different surface friction and adhesive forces. |
Aawaz Pokhrel ; Gabi Steinbach ; Siu Lung Ng ; Peter Yunker; |
| 548 | Rheology of The Environment Regulates Bacterial Growth Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our work thus reveals a new mechanism, beyond mechanosensing, by which mechanics modulates microbial behavior. |
Anna Hancock ; Sujit Datta; |
| 549 | Self-organized Canals Enable Long Range Directed Material Transport in A Biofilm Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we discover that a large-scale and temporally evolving channel system spontaneously develops in the bacterial colony. |
Shiqi LIU ; Ye Li ; Yingdan Zhang ; Zi Jing SENG ; Haoran Xu ; Liang Yang ; Yilin Wu; |
| 550 | Real Time Mass Change and Mobility Associated with The Doping of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) for High-performance Organic Electrochemical Transistors Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This study shows relationships among electrochemical doping, solvent uptake, and conductivity using electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (EQCM-D) and in-situ conductance measurements. |
Ratul Mitra Thakur ; Alexandra Easley ; Shaoyang Wang ; Yiren Zhang ; Christopher Ober ; Jodie Lutkenhaus; |
| 551 | Effect of Side-Chain Polarity on Conductivity and Thermal Stability in Molecularly Doped Polythiophene Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we investigate the electronic conductivity (σ) and the corresponding thermal stability of two polythiophene derivatives comprising oligoethylene glycol side-chains with an oxygen directly attached to the thiophene rings (P3MEET) and its analog P3MEEMT that has a methyl spacer between the oxygen and the thiophene rings (P3MEEMT). |
Ban Dong ; Chrisitan Nowak ; Jonathan Onorato ; Fernando Escobedo ; Christine Luscombe ; Paul Nealey ; Shrayesh Patel; |
| 552 | Talk Title: Strategies to Predict and Control Semiconducting Polymers’ Dynamics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In my talk, I will provide an overview of our effort in studying the conjugated polymer’s dynamics using a wide range of unique characterization tools, from thin-film to bulk. |
Xiaodan Gu; |
| 553 | Temperature Dependent Studies of IDT-BT Reveal Liquid Crystalline Phase Behavior Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Using rheology, X-ray scattering, and polarized optical measurements we have investigated the morphology and phase behavior of IDT-BT as a function of temperature. |
Abigail Fenton ; Parker Sommerville ; James Sutjianto ; Christine Luscombe ; Martin Heeney ; Ralph Colby ; Enrique Gomez; |
| 554 | Blends of Conjugated and Adhesive Polymers for Multifunctional Organic Thin-film Transistors Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we present a novel polymer blend that consists of a conjugated polymer (Poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl), Poly[2,5-bis(3-tetradecylthiophen-2-yl)thieno[3,2-b]thiophene], or Poly[2,5-(2-octyldodecyl)-3,6-diketopyrrolopyrrole-alt-5,5-(2,5-di(thien-2-yl)thieno[3,2-b]thiophene)]) and an adhesive polymer (Poly[(3,4-dihydroxystyrene)-co-styrene]) as the active layer of OTFTs. |
James Sutjianto ; Sang Ha Yoo ; Enrique Gomez; |
| 555 | Tight-binding Model Accurately Describes Frontier Orbitals of Conjugated Oligomer Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Recently, we have shown that tight-binding models can efficiently describe a broad range of optoelectronic properties for copolymers. |
Vishal Jindal ; Michael Janik ; Scott Milner; |
| 556 | Tie Chains and Charge Carrier Transport in Semicrystalline Polymer Semiconductors Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We examine the validity of this requirement through two experimental polymer physics-based methods and demonstrate that tie molecules are likely unnecessary for good charge carrier transport. |
Chad Snyder; |
| 557 | Photo-induced Charge Transfer of Fullerene and Non-Fullerene Conjugated Polymer Blends Via Density Functional Theory Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we employ density functional theory (DFT) to explore photo-induced charge transfer of diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) based polymer as a blend with non-fullerene (ITIC) and fullerene (PCBM) acceptor units. |
Amirhadi Alesadi ; Wenjie Xia ; Dmitri Kilin; |
| 558 | Linkage Dependence on Charge Transfer in Organic Dimers with Application to Intra-molecular Singlet Fission Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We explain this enormous dependence of the SF rates on connectivity within fully many-body calculations. |
Moshe Chesler ; Sumit Mazumdar ; Alok Shukla ; Pritam Bhattacharyya; |
| 559 | Donor-Acceptor Alternating Copolymer-Type Compatibilizer Enables High Efficiency, Thermal Stability, and Mechanical Robustness of Organic Solar Cells Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Herein, we demonstrate the use of donor−acceptor alternating copolymer-type compatibilizers (DACCs) into high-performance SMA-based OSCs, enhancing their PCE, thermal stability, and mechanical robustness simultaneously. |
Jin-Woo Lee ; Yun-Hi Kim ; Cheng Sun ; Bumjoon Kim; |
| 560 | Visualizing Complex Multi-Length-Scale Morphology in Non-Fullerene Photovoltaics with Nitrogen K-Edge Resonant Soft X-Ray Scattering Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: An innovative approach is provided by nitrogen K-edge RSoXS (NK-RSoXS), utilizing the spatial and orientational contrasts from the cyano groups in the acceptor material, which allows for determination of the phase separation. |
Wenkai Zhong ; Ming Zhang ; Guillaume Freychet ; Gregory Su ; Cheng Wang ; Feng Liu; |
| 561 | Beyond Conformational Control: Effects of Noncovalent Interactions on Molecular Electronic Properties of Conjugated Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our work suggests a new mechanism to manipulate the electronic properties of polymers to design high-performance small-molecule-polymer and all-polymer solar cells. |
BIN LIU ; Dario Rocca ; He Yan ; Ding Pan; |
| 562 | Characterizing Failure Behavior of Ductile Glassy Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we apply concepts familiar fracture mechanics, e.g., stress intensification ahead of crack, and show how ductile glassy polymers shows brittle response when the combination of nominal load and crack size defines a threshold toughness. |
Travis Smith ; Shi-Qing Wang; |
| 563 | Fracture Behavior of Elastomers: Case of EPDM Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this presentation, we show, based on ethylene-propylene diene monomer (EPDM) rubbers (acquired from Lion Elastomers), how the new approach compares with the Rivlin-Thomas method and indicate that a different framework may offer more effective instructions on how to improve mechanical characteristics of polymers. |
Zehao Fan ; Shi-Qing Wang; |
| 564 | Dynamic Properties of Filled Elastomers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Proton MQ NMR spectroscopy method is used to measure the crosslink density of the composites. |
Deboleena Dhara ; Md. Anisur Rahman ; Eric Ruzicka ; Zaid Abbas ; Akshay Karekar ; Nikolaos Kalafatakis ; Dimitris Vlassopoulos ; Kay Saalwaechter ; Brian Benicewicz ; Sanat Kumar; |
| 565 | Spatially-resolved Dynamics of Poly Vinyl Alcohol Gels Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we stretch poly(vinyl alcohol) gels and study the resulting dynamics parallel and perpendicular to the direction of deformation using dynamic small angle light scattering. |
Sujata Dhakal ; Daniel Estrin ; Hobart Chen ; Svetlana Morozova; |
| 566 | Dilute Surfactant Induced Swelling and Dissolution of Hydrophobically Crosslinked Hydrogels Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Non-covalently crosslinked hydrogels can exhibit toughness and mechanical adaptability associated with biological tissues, but interactions with molecules in the environment can … |
Bryan Vogt ; Siyuan Li ; Robert Weiss; |
| 567 | Design and Characterization of A Programmable Self Regulation Hybrid Material System: Wrinkled Hydrogels and Plasmonic Nanoparticl Lattices Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this research, a self-regulating system of wrinkle-patterned hydrogel with tunable feedback cycle timescales will be presented where wrinkled pattern senses humidity variation and plasmonic nanoparticle (PNP) lattice regulates through the plasmonic heating. |
Zeynab Mousavikhamene ; Young-Ah Lucy Lee ; Abhishek Kottaram Amrithanath ; Suzanne M. Neidhart ; Sridhar Krishnaswamy ; George Schatz ; Teri Odom; |
| 568 | Contraction Response of A Polyelectrolyte Hydrogel Structure to A Spatially Non-uniform Electric Field Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We study the shape fluctuations of a semi-infinite polyelectrolyte hydrogel slab to transient and spatially nonuniform sinusoidal electric fields by using extensive coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. |
Aykut Erbas ; Ekrem Bahceci; |
| 569 | Reversing Fatigue Damage in Self- Healing Vitrimer and Its Composites Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We report a vitrimeric system which is prepared using epoxy resin and adipic acid with a suitable catalyst. |
Mithil Kamble ; Dong Wang ; Nikhil Koratkar ; Catalin Picu; |
| 570 | Using Thiol-Thioester Bond Exchange to Elucidate The Interplay Between Crystallinity and Dynamic Bond Exchange in Semi-Crystalline Polymer Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Coupled with microscopy and x-ray scattering, we present a rationale for these observations and how dynamic bonds can be harnessed in polymer networks to control both rheology and structure. |
Alexa Kuenstler ; Christopher Bowman; |
| 571 | Shear Banding in Entangled Polymers: Stress Plateau, Banding Location, and Lever Rule Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Using molecular dynamics simulation, we study shear banding of entangled polymer melts under steady shear. |
Zhen-Gang Wang ; Yongjin Ruan ; Yuyuan Lu ; Lijia An; |
| 572 | Tuning Mechanical Properties of A Stretchable Hydrogel System Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we present a hydrogel system capable of mimicking some of these properties. |
Santanu Kundu ; Rosa Maria Badani Prado ; Anandavalli Varadarajan ; Katherine Elmore ; Satish Mishra; |
| 573 | Microstructure and Dynamics of Nanocellulose Network: Insights Into The Deformational Behaviors Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our study provides fundamental insights into deformational mechanisms of CNC films at a molecular level, aiding in the tailored design of cellulose-based materials for their mechanical performance. |
Zhaofan Li ; Wenjie Xia; |
| 574 | Theory and Simulation for Elasticity of Slide-ring Gels Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We develop single-chain analytical models designed to quantitatively describe the sliding effects on the elasticity of slide-ring gels and test these models by simulations. |
Danyang Chen ; Liel Sapir ; Sergey Panyukov ; Michael Rubinstein; |
| 575 | Single Particle Tracking of Nanoparticle Probes in Homogenous and Heterogenous Polymer Hydrogels Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In our work, we use sub-10 nm quantum dots to investigate the effect of hydrogel microstructure, gelation and crosslinking density on nanoparticle dynamics. |
Katie Rose ; Daeyeon Lee ; Russell Composto; |
| 576 | Observing Polymer Clustering in Concentrated Solutions Using Single Particle Tracking Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Using single particle tracking (SPT) diffusion studies, we show that Poly(poly(ethylene glycol) Methacrylate) is a hydrophobically associating polymer, where polymer chains may diffuse individually or in clusters. |
Harrison Landfield ; Muzhou Wang; |
| 577 | Single Particle Imaging of The Assembly of Elongated Nanoparticles at A Liquid Interface Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Despite conceptual and technological importance, the attachment and subsequent ordering of anisotropic particles at liquid interfaces remains poorly understood. Here, in situ … |
Satyam Srivastava ; Alexander Ribbe ; David Hoagland ; Thomas Russell; |
| 578 | Molecular Electron Videography of Heterogeneous Polymer Networks and Protein Transformation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We back map these blobs to MD simulated atomic coordinates to reveal the substructural motifs corresponding to the blobs and show these structural features affect the conformation change of the nanoparticles, which impact their applications in delivery and biomedicine. |
Qian Chen; |
| 579 | Experimental Determination of The Boundary Between The Topologically Frustrated Dynamical State and Reptation Regime Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We report that the dependence of the entropic barrier on cross-link density is nonmonotonic with a maximum at an intermediate cross-link density. |
Kuo Chen ; Murugappan Muthukumar; |
| 580 | Transverse Fluctuations and Conformations of A Semi-flexible Chain in A Crowded Environment Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We study how the transverse fluctuations of a semi-flexible chain are affected by the presence of other excluded volume (EV) particles as a function of the polymer chain length L, the peristence length lp , and the density of the EV particles. |
Jacob Bair; |
| 581 | Effects of Self-assembly on The Conformational Chirality of Block Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we employ particle-based simulations to develop a versatile and tunable model for chiral polymers. |
Poornima Padmanabhan ; Natalie Buchanan; |
| 582 | Automated Synthesis for Single-Molecule Electronics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we report the use of a new automated synthesis platform to prepare large libraries of conjugated oligomers for molecular electronic applications. |
Edward Jira ; Songsong Li ; Nicholas Angello ; Jialing Li ; Jeffrey Moore ; Martin Burke ; Charles Schroeder; |
| 583 | Investigating Sequence-Conformation Relationship Using Polypeptoids: A Single-Molecule Force Study Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we present the use of polypeptoids, an analog of polypeptides, as a model to isolate and investigate the effect of charge sequence on polymer conformations by designing simple sequences with only two types of side chains: neutral hydrophilic and charged. |
Hoang Truong ; Rachel Segalman ; Omar Saleh; |
| 584 | Chain Tension Dependence of The Kuhn Length Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present a theory for the dependence of the Kuhn length on the applied force, use it to correct the modified Freely Jointed Chain (mFJC) model, and verify this dependence by molecular dynamics simulations. |
Liel Sapir ; Danyang Chen ; Michael Rubinstein; |
| 585 | Inter-DNA Attraction Mediated By Monovalent Ions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We employ a new nanopore-based sensing technique to precisely quantify the knotting probability of long DNA chains, which is a very sensitive measure to inter-DNA interactions. |
Rajesh Sharma ; Ishita Agrawal ; Liang Dai ; Patrick Doyle ; Slaven Garaj; |
| 586 | Dynamics of Single Polymers in Mesoscale Nematic Solvents Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we employ a hybrid Multi-Particle Collision and Molecular Dynamics simulation to study polymers embedded in nematic fluids. |
ZAHRA VALEI ; Karolina Wamsler ; Olivia Kridler ; Alexander Klotz ; Alex Parker ; Tyler Shendruk; |
| 587 | Modeling Earth’s Interior from Atomic to Global Scale Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This presentation gives an overview of the cooperation between computational mineral physics, seismology, and geodynamics. |
Renata Wentzcovitch; |
| 588 | Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Solid Electrolytes with NequIP Equivariant Machine Learning Models Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we examine the applicability of machine-learned interatomic potentials to studying ionic diffusion dynamics in bulk and interfaces. |
Juan Gomez ; Liwen Wan ; Simon Batzner ; Albert Musaelian ; Brandon Wood ; Boris Kozinsky; |
| 589 | Obtaining Vibronic Excitation Spectra of Small Organic Molecules Using Machine Learning Simulations and Power Spectra Techniques Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Using the ANI method for constructing machine learning potentials and the TRAVIS molecular analysis package for calculating trajectory autocorrelation, we produce vibronic excited state spectra while avoiding both the harmonic oscillator approximation and numerical differentiation. |
Andrew Johannesen ; Jason Goodpaster; |
| 590 | Improved, Reliable Uncertainty Quantification of Interatomic Models Using Sloppy Model Analysis Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We propose a systematic UQ process for sloppy models, utilizing the Manifold Boundary Approximation Method (MBAM) to identify sloppy parameters and find the reduced, less-sloppy model. |
Yonatan Kurniawan; |
| 591 | Large-scale Dynamics Simulations of Complex Liquid Electrolytes with NequIP Equivariant Machine Learning Models Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we focus on ionic liquid electrolytes and demonstrate the application of state-of-the-art equivariant graph neural network models for interatomic interactions (NequIP [1]), trained on DFT energies and forces. |
Nicola Molinari ; Albert Musaelian ; Simon Batzner ; Boris Kozinsky; |
| 592 | Application of Machine Learning to The Development of Ti Interatomic Potentials Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The approach uses ML to optimize less sophisticated IPs through the use of an artificial neural network (ANN) which seeks to identify and apply more fitted parameters which create a “delta”. |
Sean O’Connor ; Volker Eyert ; Jörg-Rüdiger Hill ; David Reith ; Erich Wimmer ; Patrick Thomas ; Ben Sikora ; Paul Rulis; |
| 593 | Artifactual Liquid-Liquid Hydrogen Phase Transition from A Machine-Learnt Potential Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: 2, 032065(R) (2020) ], we find a first-order transition. |
Samuel Trickey ; Valentin Karasiev ; Joshua Hinz ; Suxing Hu; |
| 594 | Machine Learned Interatomic Potential Development for W-ZrC Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we will describe a machine learned Spectral Neighbor Analysis Potential (SNAP) developed for the W-ZrC system. |
Ember Sikorski ; Julien Tranchida ; Mary Alice Cusentino ; Mitchell Wood ; Aidan Thompson; |
| 595 | Deep Potential Development of Highly Concentrated/High Entropy-driven Carbides Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, DeepMD (Deep Potential Molecular Dynamics) code was utilized to develop Deep potentials for highly concentrated/high entropy driven TM-rich carbides (TM= transition metals) as the key precipitates in Ni-based Superalloys. |
Tyler McGilvry-James ; Marium Mostafiz Mou ; Ridwan Sakidja; |
| 596 | Generative Coarse-Graining Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Inspired by the recent progress in deep generative models and equivariant neural nets, we propose a unified probabilistic formulation of backmapping, where the conditional likelihood of FG positions solely depends on the CG conformations. |
Wujie Wang; |
| 597 | Dynamical Strengthening of Covalent and Non-covalent Molecular Interactions By Nuclear Quantum Effects at Finite Temperature Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: [1] Here, we present evidence that NQE often enhance electronic interactions and can result in dynamical molecular stabilization at finite temperature. |
Huziel Sauceda ; Valentin Vassilev Galindo ; Stefan Chmiela ; Klaus-Robert Müller ; Alexandre Tkatchenko; |
| 598 | Quantum Paraelectricity and Structural Phase Transitions of SrTiO3 By On-the-fly Machine-learned Interatomic Potentials Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This approach enables detailed studies of emergent properties in anharmonic materials including quantum paraelectrics. |
Carla Verdi ; Luigi Ranalli ; Cesare Franchini ; Georg Kresse; |
| 599 | Enhancing The Dielectric Breakdown Strength and Energy Density of Solid-state Polymeric Capacitors By Chain End Manipulations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we experimentally demonstrate the role of chain ends indirectly and directly in the dielectric breakdown by using block copolymers (BCP) and cyclic polymer films respectively. |
Mei Dong ; David Tran ; Nihar Pradhan ; Dharmaraj Raghavan ; Jack Douglas ; Karen Wooley ; Alamgir Karim; |
| 600 | Tuning Performance of Organic Field-Effect Transistors Through Modification of Polymer Dielectrics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Cobalt-ferrite (CoFe 2O 4 or CFO) magnetic nanocrystals have been synthesized using a thermal decomposition method and coated with polymers such as poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA). |
John Barron ; Jaewon Lee ; Suchismita Guha; |
| 601 | Recycling Conjugated Polymers from Organic Thin Film Transistors Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we demonstrate OTFT recycling by redissolving the semiconducting polymer active layer from OTFTs and recasting onto new bottom-gate, bottom-contact substrates. |
Louis Kirkley ; James Sutjianto ; Enrique Gomez; |
| 602 | Polarized Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering Measurements in Semicrystalline Polymers and Nanocomposites Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: I will describe our approach to solving this issue using polarized resonant soft X-ray scattering (P-RSoXS), which combines principles of soft X-ray spectroscopy, small-angle scattering, and data fusion with real-space imaging to produce a molecular scale structure measurement for soft materials. |
Dean DeLongchamp; |
| 603 | Studying Stress and Conductivity Relaxations of CNT-Infused Rubber Materials Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The setup design and relaxation data will be shown to demonstrate the measurement technique, the scales by which these relaxations occur, and how the force and conductivity relaxations of similar polymers compare. |
Claire Onsager ; Can Aygen ; Sahar Meir ; Lev Rovinsky ; Noa Lachman Senesh ; Matthew Grayson; |
| 604 | Theory of A Ferroelectric Carbon Nanothread Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To help realize the stacking geometry needed for ferroelectricity, we describe a strategy of nanothread structural control based on steric crowding of bulky side groups. |
Bohan Xu; |
| 605 | Ultra-Stretchable, Transparent Ionic Sensory Platforms for Next-Generation Wearable Artificial Skins Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: The primary technology of next‐generation wearable electronics pursues the development of highly deformable and stable systems. Here, nonvolatile, highly transparent, and … |
Yong Min Kim; |
| 606 | Routes Forward for Evaporated Small Molecule Organic Solar Cells Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our work gives an overview of today’s evaporated OSCs and highlights paths for further improvements. |
Pascal Kaienburg ; Andreas Lauritzen ; Irfan Habib ; Moritz Riede ; Anna Jungbluth; |
| 607 | Correlating Excited States Populations, Molecular Geometry, and Efficiency for Small Molecule OPVs Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we present a study of Squaraine:PCBM OPVs using atomic force microscopy, spectroscopy, and device efficiency data. |
Kristen Burson ; Tyler Wiegand ; Hudson Smith ; Catherine Ryczek ; Adriana Cruz ; Christopher Collison; |
| 608 | Tuning Solvent Quality to Push Performance of Donor-acceptor Films in OPVs Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have the potential for high specific power, flexibility, and solution processability. Yet the factors governing performance of OPVs are complex due to … |
Stephen Wong ; Guoyan Zhang ; Enrique Gomez; |
| 609 | Excitonic Properties of Pi-conjugated Acene Ethynylene-bridged Polymers from A Trivial to A Non-trivial Insulating Phase Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work we study the excitonic properties of infinitely extended pi-conjugated acene ethynylene-bridged polymers by means of self-consistent GW calculations and the solution of the Bethe-Salpeter equation both in the trivial and non-trivial quantum phase. |
Davide Romanin ; Alex Chin ; Matteo Calandra; |
| 610 | Understanding Intermolecular Charge Transport in Cucurbit[8]uril Encapsulated Pyridinium Dimers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we introduce a new strategy for studying interchain charge transport at the single molecule level using pi-stacked junctions driven by host-guest complexation. |
Jialing Li ; Hao Yu ; Songsong Li ; Nicholas Jackson ; Jeffrey Moore ; Charles Schroeder; |
| 611 | Optical Properties of Thienylfuran Linear Oligomers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present a theoretical study of thiophene, furan and thienylfuran short chains, using different methodologies – from Hartree-Fock HF and Density Functional Theory DFT, to Moller-Plesset perturbation HF-MP2, many-body perturbation G0W0@DFT and Bethe-Salpeter Equation[2-4]. |
Vinicius Bastos ; Tales da Silva ; Marilia Caldas; |
| 612 | Universal Features of Dynamics of Localized Electronic States Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we present universal features of such motion. |
Anatoly Obzhirov ; Eric Heller; |
| 613 | Accurate Charge Mobility Simulation and Validation in Organic Semiconductors Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We found that the dynamic disorder in a set of substituted acenes can be miscalculated by up to 24% when comparing the gamma point phonons and the full phonon band spectrum. |
Daniel Vong ; Adam Moule ; Makena Dettmann ; Lucas Cavalcante; |
| 614 | Investigating The Network Structure and Transport Properties of Physically-crosslinked Lignin-based Composites Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: The biodegradability, antimicrobial properties, and chemical activity of lignin make it attractive for use in the fabrication of sustainable materials. However, the heterogenous … |
Keturah Bethel; |
| 615 | Exploring The Rheological Properties of Entangled and Unentangled Crosslinked Polymer Nanocomposite Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We explored the effect of entanglements and particle loading on viscoelastic properties of crosslinked polymer nanocomposite networks. |
Yi Feng ; Pinar Akcora; |
| 616 | A Simple Relation Between Stiffness and Swelling of A Hydrogel Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We use semi-dilute polymer theory to develop a simple power-law relationship between hydrogel elastic modulus and swelling. |
Yiwei Gao ; Nickolas K.K. Chai ; Negin Garakani ; Sujit Datta ; H. Jeremy Cho; |
| 617 | Tuning The Properties of Surface-anchored Polymer Networks By Varying The Concentration of Thermally-activated Crosslinker, Annealing Time, and Temperature in A One-pot Reaction Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We investigate the properties of surface-anchored polymer networks created via one-pot synthesis using thermally active 6-azidosulfonylhexyltriethoxy silane (6-ASHTES). |
Jan Genzer ; Sungoung Woo ; C.K. Pandiyarajan; |
| 618 | Elucidating The Network Structure, Mechanical and Transport Properties of Poly(vinyl Alcohol)–Lignin Soft Composites Containing Fractionated, Purified Lignins Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Lignin-containing hydrogels have gained attention for use in a variety of aqueous-based separations as lignin is an abundant biopolymer with a high concentration of hydroxyl … |
Nicholas Gregorich ; Sagar Kanhere ; Jaden Stutts ; Graham Tindall ; Tyler Martin ; Amod Ogale ; Mark Thies ; Eric Davis; |
| 619 | Advanced Fitting Procedure for AFM Single-molecule Data Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present a new data analysis method, using least likelihood fits, that takes some of these effects into account. |
Ramesh Tripathi ; Peter Hoffmann; |
| 620 | Nanocomposite Hydrogels As Soil Additives Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we use molecular dynamics simulations to study structure formation, dynamics and mechanics of these polymer gels as a function of nanofiller volume fraction under both equilibrium and non-equilibrium conditions. |
Shoumik Saha ; Dilip Gersappe; |
| 621 | Dynamic Frictional Behavior and Dilatancy of Hydrogels Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we use a rheometer and a custom-built pin-on-disk tribometer to help examine hydrogels’ time-dependent frictional behavior and dilatancy. |
Jing Wang ; Justin Burton; |
| 622 | Investigating Patterned Hydrogel Matrix Instabilities During Swelling Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we present new methods of investigating these instabilities to better understand dynamic rupture and failure. |
Caroline Szczepanski ; Alyssa VanZanten; |
| 623 | Gel Rupture and Surface Instabilities During Dynamic Swelling Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In homogeneous samples, we find that rupture events follow a three-stage process that can be described based on changes in the material properties during swelling. |
Michelle Driscoll ; Kelsey-Ann Leslie ; Shih-Yuan Chen ; Caroline Szczepanski ; Robert Doane-Solomon ; Srishti Arora ; Alyssa VanZanten; |
| 624 | Fracture Toughness of Two-dimensional Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To demonstrate this concept, we designed 2D ordered networks that allow for systematic control of k_angle/k_bond through geometric considerations, and conducted tensile tests to show that the enhancement in stiffness and toughness are related to how the local elastic constants resist bond reorientation during global deformation. |
Marcos Reyes-Martinez ; Edwin Chan ; Christopher Soles; |
| 625 | Hydrogel Dehydration Under Oil Flow Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We find that independent of the hydrogels polymer properties or the flow conditions, the swollen coating depletes linearly over time. |
Lukas Hauer ; Philipp Baumli ; Burkhard Dunweg ; Doris Vollmer; |
| 626 | Nanostructural Evaluation of Styrenic Block Copolymer Gels Across A Diverse Formulation Parameter Space Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The present study focuses on the size and spacing of spherical domains within gels wherein the styrenic blocks comprise the spherical domains and aliphatic blocks and an aliphatic-selective solvent comprise the continuous domain. |
Kenneth Mineart; |
| 627 | Design of Bio-inspired Complex Active Systems from Polymer Hydrogels Through 3D Finite Element Modeling and Simulations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we develop a generic finite element-based framework to simulate the mechanical response of active polymer gels powered by self-oscillating Belousov Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction. |
Priyanka Nemani ; Ravi Sastri Ayyagari ; Pratyush Dayal; |
| 628 | Statistics of Gaussian Polymer Chains in Quadratic Applied Fields Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This work derives statistics for a continuous Gaussian chain exposed to multidimensional, quadratic applied fields. |
John Mikhail ; Gregory Rutledge; |
| 629 | Simulation Studies of Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Charged Motifs in A Dual Nanopore Device Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We use Brownian dynamics simulation to study the detailed translocation process of a coarse-grain DNA scanning through a double nanopore setup using an extended electric field. |
Arthur Rand ; Walter Reisner ; Robert Sladek ; William Dunbar ; Aniket Bhattacharya; |
| 630 | Nonlinear Electrophoretic Velocity of DNA in Slitlike Confinement Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have applied zero-time-averaged alternating electric fields to DNA molecules in cross-shaped nanofluidic slits. |
Michael Lamontagne ; Stephen Levy; |
| 631 | Interactions Between Two Knots in Nanochannel-confined DNA Molecules Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We will present experimental data on knot-knot interactions in single DNA molecules under nanochannel confinement. |
Zixue Ma ; Kevin Dorfman; |
| 632 | Phase Transition of Catenated DNA Networks in Poly(ethylene Glycol) Solutions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We studied the polymer-and-salt-induced (psi) phase transition of kinetoplasts, using single-molecule fluorescence microscopy. |
Indresh Yadav ; Dana Al Sulaiman ; Beatrice Soh ; Patrick Doyle; |
| 633 | Translocations of Topologically Linked Rings from Kinetoplast DNA Through A Solid-state Nanopore Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we present preliminary observations of the translocation signal and dwell time associated with catenated molecular topologies, and the implications for understanding topological friction in polymers and for determining kinetoplast topology. |
Sierra Breyer ; Alexander Klotz; |
| 634 | DNA Nunchucks: Nanoinstrumentation for Dynamic, Single-Molecular Characterization of DNA Bending Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: The dynamic bending of a double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) sequence is an essential aspect of its structure and biological function that is rarely characterized because direct … |
Xinyue Cai ; Deborah Fygenson; |
| 635 | Expanding The Molecular Alphabet of DNA Data Storage Systems with Single-molecule Nanopore Readout Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we describe a new DNA storage system that uses an extended 11-letter molecular alphabet combining natural and chemically modified nucleotides. |
Kasra Tabatabaei ; Charles Schroeder ; Olgica Milenkovic ; Chao Pan ; Aleksei Aksimentiev ; Jingqian Liu ; Bach Pham ; Min Chen ; Shubham Chandak ; Alvaro Hernandez ; Spencer Shorkey; |
| 636 | Nanopore Genomic Mapping Using Single-strand Binding Protein Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we present preliminary results from standard reference genomes and discuss the physics of DNA-SSB complexes. |
Alexander Klotz ; Nathan Howald; |
| 637 | Genome Mapping Using A Dual Nanopore Device Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have developed a dual nanopore device that features feedback-driven dynamic control over single translocating dsDNA. |
Walter Reisner ; Xavier Capaldi ; Arthur Rand ; Philip Zimny ; Roland Nagel ; Chaitra Telang ; Justin Mollison ; Aaron Bruns ; Emily Leff ; An Vuong ; Swarnadeep Seth ; Aniket Bhattacharya ; William Dunbar; |
| 638 | Orientational Fluctuations and Bimodality in Semiflexible Nunchucks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we present a theoretical analysis of the conformational fluctuations of this system. |
Panayotis Benetatos ; Mohammadhosein Razbin; |
| 639 | Organized States Arising from Compression of Single Semi-Flexible Polymer Chains in Nanochannels Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We use molecular dynamics (MD) simulation to probe the non-equilibrium physics of single nanochannel-confined semi-flexible polymers in a homogeneous flow field. |
Lili Zeng ; Walter Reisner; |
| 640 | Polymer Ejecting from A Cavity Through A Nanochannel Into A Semi-Infinite Space Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This study provides deep insight into the complicated phenomena of biopolymer ejection occurred in nature and in applications. |
Pai-Yi Hsiao; |
| 641 | Entropic Localization of Multiple Plasmids in A Nanofluidic Compartment Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We find that polymer-polymer excluded volume interactions combined with interaction with the compartment boundary lead to a spontaneous organization mimicking the biological system, with plasmids preferring the compartment periphery and poles. |
Zezhou Liu ; Xavier Capaldi ; Lili Zeng ; Yuning Zhang ; Rodrigo Reyes-Lamothe ; Walter Reisner; |
| 642 | Current Fluctuations in Nanopores Reveal The Polymer-wall Adsorption Potential Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This paves the way to in-situ characterisation of functionalised nanopores, and highlights the detailed and fundamental insight that noise analysis provides into molecular adsorption phenomena. |
Stuart Knowles ; Alice Thorneywork; |
| 643 | Molecular Dynamics of A Soft-Matter Analog System Near Nuclear Densities Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We will present some recent simulations and phase diagrams using this model, including some results showing a helicoidal defect in a lamellar phase. |
Matthew Caplan ; Ian Freeman; |
| 644 | Ion Transport in Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) Based Electrolytes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, the ion transport mechanism and electrochemical properties of PAN-based SPEs are thoroughly examined. |
Changhao Liu ; Robert Sacci ; Ritu Sahore ; Gabriel Veith ; Xi Chen; |
| 645 | Polymer-ceramic Composite Electrolyte for High Energy Lithium Batteries Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this presentation, both fundamental and applied aspects of composite electrolytes will be discussed. |
Xi Chen; |
| 646 | Using in Situ SAXS to Investigate Salt Concentration Gradients, Morphological Changes, and Cell Failure Mechanisms in Block Copolymer Electrolytes at The Limiting Current Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Based on this, we propose a new, structural mechanism for cell failure and limiting current. |
Lorena Grundy ; Michael Galluzzo ; Christopher Takacs ; Nitash Balsara; |
| 647 | Polyelectrolyte-Grafted Nanoparticles in Ionic Liquids for Enhanced Ion Transport Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We will compare these differences and morphologies formed of the two copolymer-grafted systems and will present the electrochemical properties of the particle electrolytes. |
Ruhao Li ; Pinar Akcora; |
| 648 | Li-ion Transport and Morphology Study of Ion-condensed, Liquid-crystalline Polymer Electrolytes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In our work, we investigate various backbone, ionic group tethered polymers with different polarities to modulate the ionic phase morphology. |
Jiacheng Liu ; Jennifer Schaefer; |
| 649 | Polyelectrolyte Diffusion in Convex Lens-induced Confinement (CLiC) Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have determined the diffusion coefficient, D, of sodium polyacrylic acid (NaPAA) and dextran in Convex Lens-induced Confinement (CLiC) using differential dynamic microscopy (DDM). |
Brittany Roopnarine ; Spencer Schmidt ; Kevin Maxwell ; Svetlana Morozova; |
| 650 | Impacts of Anion Structure on Ion Conduction of Li-ion Single-ion Conducting Ionomers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Single-ion conducting ionomers are potential candidates for energy-related applications. However, their conductivity is orders of magnitude lower than the requirement for device … |
Wenwen Mei ; Robert Hickey ; Ralph Colby; |
| 651 | Coarse-grained Simulations of Ion Transport in Single-ion and Salt-doped Polymer Electrolytes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This transference number, representing the fractional contribution of cations to overall conductivity, is generally low in salt-doped polymer electrolytes. |
Mengdi Fan ; Lisa Hall; |
| 652 | Thermal and Structural Studies of Polyzwitterion/salt Complexes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we investigate the effects of LiCl salt addition to PZI solution cast films; LiCl composition in the complexes varied from about 0.06 to 1.65 mol. |
John Thomas ; Yajnaseni Biswas ; Ayse Asatekin ; Peggy Cebe; |
| 653 | Competition of Folding-induced Assembly and Liquid-liquid Phase Separation Produces Diverse Morphologies of Peptide Coacervates Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This complex phase behavior suggests a competition between hydrogen bonding driven beta sheet assembly and electrostatics driven coacervate formation; the new results and its implications for protein folding and assembly will be discussed in this talk. |
Nairiti Sinha ; Craig Hawker ; Matthew Helgeson; |
| 654 | Complex Micelle Morphology of DNA Block Copolymer and Ionic Liquid Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we prepare DNA-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (DNA-PNIPAM) block copolymer and investigate its complexation with ionic liquid (IL). |
Young Hun Kim ; Sheng Li; |
| 655 | Manipulating Light and Color with Soft and Structured Matter Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Investigations of nature’s most fascinating light manipulation strategies can inspire design concepts for synthetic, hierarchically structured, functional optical materials and … |
Mathias Kolle; |
| 656 | Combining Experimental and Simulation Approaches to Model Color Generation in Colloidal Assemblies Under Spherical Confinement Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we present a robust method of performing optical modeling using experimental and simulation tools that includes a) extraction of structural information from colloidal assemblies using scattering techniques, b) reconstruction of the assemblies using the previously developed CREASE method, and c) optical simulation of the reconstructed structures using finite-difference time-domain calculations to produce reflectance profiles that match the experimental reflectance spectra. |
Anvay Patil ; Christian Heil ; Arthi Jayaraman ; Ali Dhinojwala; |
| 657 | Liquid Collection on Welwitschia-Inspired Wavy Surfaces Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we propose an omniphilic wavy surface design, inspired by Welwitschia mirabilis, that possesses the requisite characteristics for efficient liquid collection: a low energy barrier for nucleation and fast liquid transport. |
Christian Machado ; Kyoo-Chul Park ; Yuehan Yao ; Joanna Aizenberg ; Emma Feldman; |
| 658 | Mechanically Self-adaptable Materials, A Novel Bio-inspired Pathway for Overcoming Fatigue Failure Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Building upon our previous work demonstrating proportional mineral deposition as a function of a stress using piezoelectric scaffold [1], we report a bioinspired pathway for next generation materials with improved fatigue resistance. |
Mostafa Omar ; Bohan Sun ; Sung Hoon Kang; |
| 659 | Field Driven Transition of Artificial Membraneless Organells: from Spheres to Discoids to Prolate Ellipsoids Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Inspired by such non-classical shapes in natural systems, we studied external field driven shape transitions in one of the ubiquitous biological materials: membraneless organelles (MLOs). |
Aman Agrawal ; Anusha Vonteddu ; Jack Douglas ; Alamgir Karim; |
| 660 | Effect of Wettability on Fog Collection on A Cylindrical Wire Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we conduct experiments using individual wires – the primarily components of conventional fog-collection systems. |
LEYUN FENG ; Youhua Jiang ; Kyoo-Chul Park; |
| 661 | Mechanical Metamaterial Based on Cellular Structures Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We introduce an amorphous mechanical metamaterial inspired by how cells pack in biological tissues. |
Xinzhi Li ; Dapeng(Max) Bi; |
| 662 | Bioinspired Dopamine-functionalized Polymers for Enhanced Adhesion in Construction Applications Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The primary goal of this work was to focus our efforts on incorporating mussel-inspired adhesives for building and construction materials, with an emphasis on concrete. |
Travis Thornell ; Erik Alberts ; Ashvin Fernando ; Gilbert Kosgei ; Emily Asenath-Smith ; Charles Weiss ; Lee Moores; |
| 663 | Bioinspired Liquid-infused Materials for Self-healing and Self-stiffening Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We will present our characterization of piezoelectric properties, liquid-infusion capability as well as self-healing and self-stiffening capability. |
Bohan Sun ; Mostafa Omar ; Sung Hoon Kang; |
| 664 | Collective Behavior Triggers Chemomechanical Oscillations in Active Hydrogels Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we demonstrate that the quorum sensing response of an assembly of soft small BZ hydrogels (smaller than their critical size to oscillate on their own) can trigger their chemomechanical oscillations. |
Baptiste Blanc ; Johnson Agyapong ; Ian Hunter ; Ali Agvhami ; Seth Fraden; |
| 665 | Thermodynamic Law for Control of Biopolymer Reorganization Through Energy Consumption Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we address the interplay between structure and energy dissipation in a model system which transitions between aster-like and bundle-like configurations of actin filaments, which interact through the action of myosin molecular motors. |
Alexandra Lamtyugina ; Yuqing Qiu ; Etienne Fodor ; Aaron Dinner ; Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan; |
| 666 | Spatiotemporal Control of Mechanical Phase Transition in 3D Active Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we demonstrate that active networks composed of molecular motors and biopolymers exhibit an activity-controlled phase transition from an active liquid that spontaneously bends in-plane to an active solid that spontaneously buckles out-of-plane. |
Bibi Najma; |
| 667 | Passive and Active Particle Dynamics in Microhydrodynamic Flows of Complex Fluids Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, I will discuss a number of instances where particles suspended in complex fluids lead to markedly different dynamics and rheology for microhydrodynamic flows. |
Gwynn Elfring; |
| 668 | Heterogeneity and The Role of Entanglements During The Extrusion of Fiber Suspensions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Using microscopic imaging, we systematically studied the extrusion process in three dimensions. |
Zehao Pan ; Janine K. Nunes ; Howard Stone; |
| 669 | Tuning Interfacial Rheology and Particle Microstructure with Janus Particles Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we explore the effect of a small amount of additive on the interfacial rheology and the microscopic structure of such an interface. |
Yiming Qiao ; Nathan Keim ; Xiang Cheng; |
| 670 | Twist And Snap: Heterogeneous Defect Nucleation Via Frank-Read Sources in Nematic Liquid Crystals Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We consider a disclination half-loop pinned to a planar anchoring layer [1]. |
Matthew Deutsch ; Robin Selinger; |
| 671 | Local Deformation Fields in Active Soft Matter Induced By Internal Stresses Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we present a method to measure such deformation fields. |
Mehdi Molaei ; Steven Redford ; Wen-hung Chou ; Danielle Scheff ; Margaret Gardel; |
| 672 | Fluorescent Streak Velocimetry of Non-Newtonian Fluids Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we demonstrate how fluorescent streak velocimetry can be used to characterize flow in non-Newtonian fluids. |
Brendan Blackwell ; Han Lin ; Connor Call ; Michelle Driscoll ; Jeffrey Richards; |
| 673 | Experimental Study on The Motion of A Confined Bubble in A Non-Newtonian Fluid Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we consider the classical Bretherton problem with a non-Newtonian fluid. |
Jie Feng; |
| 674 | Dipole Alignment of Water Molecules Flowing Through A Carbon Nanotube Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have used molecular dynamics simulations to study pressure-induced flow of water through a (10,10) single-walled carbon nanotube. |
Chandan Dasgupta ; Hemant Kumar ; Saheb Bera ; Subhadeep Dasgupta ; A Sood ; Prabal Maiti; |
| 675 | Soft Hydraulics of Non-Newtonian Fluids Flows Through Compliant Conduits Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, I will describe how to construct such a theory yielding reduced models that take into account shear-dependent viscosity, hydrodynamic pressure gradients during flow, and the elastic response (bulging and deformation) of the soft conduits due to flow within. |
Ivan Christov; |
| 676 | Flow Rate-pressure Drop Relation for Viscoelastic Fluids in Narrow and Confined Non-uniform Geometries Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we aim to rationalize the longstanding contradiction between simulations using the "simple" Oldroyd-B and FENE-CR models and experiments for the flow rate-pressure drop relation of viscoelastic fluids in some geometries. |
Evgeniy Boyko ; Howard Stone; |
| 677 | Peeling of Elastic Sheet Using Complex Fluids at Low Reynolds Numbers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: And therefore, we present the results for the peeling actuated by such generalized Newtonian fluids as well. |
Vishal Anand ; Anirudh Venkatesh ; Vivek Narsimhan; |
| 678 | Simultaneous Stress, Pressure, and 3D Velocity Measurements of Viscoelastic Instabilities in A Cross-slot Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Simultaneous stress, pressure, and 3D velocity measurements of viscoelastic instabilities in a cross-slot. |
Gerardo Pradillo ; Paul Salipante ; Steven Hudson; |
| 679 | Time-dependence of Local Boundary Conditions and Global Throughput for Confined, Semi-dilute Polymer Solutions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we use evanescent wave microscopy and particle tracking velocimetry to map the flow field within a one-micron layer close to the wall in a 5-micron-thick microfluidic chip. |
Gabriel Guyard ; Alexandre Vilquin ; Nicolas Sanson ; Stéphane Jouenne ; Frédéric Restagno ; Joshua McGraw; |
| 680 | Bio-inspired Machine Learning Towards Mechanistic Insights, Generative Design, and Discovery from The Bottom Up Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present examples that involve deep convolutional neural networks, graph neural networks, transformers, and game theoretical approaches towards analysis and design of atomic-level material structures. |
Markus Buehler; |
| 681 | Development of SNAP Interatomic Potentials for Gas-Metal Interactions for Fusion Energy Materials Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, the development of W-H and W-N SNAP potentials that reproduce gas species behavior as well as gas impurity behavior on surfaces and in bulk will be discussed. |
Mary Alice ; Mitchell Wood ; Aidan Thompson; |
| 682 | Supervised Learning and The Finite-Temperature String Method for Computing Committor Functions and Reaction Rates Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Recent work [1] constructed an algorithm where a neural network that represents the committor function is trained with data obtained from importance sampling. |
Clay Batton ; Muhammad Hasyim ; Kranthi Mandadapu; |
| 683 | Learning to Simulate Time-averaged Coarse-grained Molecular Dynamics with Geometric Machine Learning Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We adopt a different ML approach by learning time-averaged acceleration at a coarse-grained level from trajectory data generated by traditional MD simulation. |
Xiang Fu ; Tian Xie ; Nathan Rebello ; Bradley Olsen ; Tommi Jaakkola; |
| 684 | Simulating Materials with Quantum Computers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, I will provide a summary of progress made towards this goal that is accessible to scientists across the physical sciences. |
Lindsay Bassman; |
| 685 | Size-Dependent Melting Temperature of Rubidium: Thermodynamic Integration Based on First-principles Calculations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Therefore, we focused on Artificial Neural Network (ANN). |
Shogo Fukushima ; Aiichiro Nakano ; Rajiv Kalia ; Priya Vashishta ; Fuyuki Shimojo ; Hiroyuki Kumazoe ; Masaaki Misawa ; Kohei Shimamura ; Akihide Koura; |
| 686 | Asymmetric Carrier Transport in Two-Dimensional Ferroelectric Layers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We perform nonadiabatic quantum molecular dynamics simulations to study carrier dynamics in a graphene-CIPS interface under high electric fields. |
RURU MA ; Anikeya Aditya ; Thomas Linker ; Shogo Fukushima ; Fuyuki Shimojo ; Aiichiro Nakano ; Rajiv Kalia ; Priya Vashishta; |
| 687 | Graph Neural Network with Inductive Bias for Robust Molecular Dynamics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We develop a graph neural network (GNN) model for a range of material systems to perform ML-MD simulations with quantum mechanical accuracy but orders-of-magnitude faster. |
Pankaj Rajak ; Aravind Krishnamoorthy ; Rajiv Kalia ; Aiichiro Nakano ; Priya Vashishta ; Ekin Cubuk; |
| 688 | Neural Network Potentials for CO2 Adsorption in Amine-Appended Metal-Organic Frameworks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we summarize the development of an accurate and transferable neural network potential for amine-appended MOFs via active learning approach to enable a detailed study of the energetics and dynamical nature of CO2 bound amine-appended MOFs at finite temperatures. |
Yusuf Shaidu ; Jeffrey Neaton; |
| 689 | Machine Learning Strategies for Potential Development in Highly Concentrated/high-entropy Driven Ni-based Superalloys Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: For this purpose, we employed the outcome from the a b-initio molecular dynamics simulations from the Vienna Ab-initio Software Package (VASP) following the Density Functional Theory (DFT) approximations including the data of energy, forces, and virial database. |
Marium Mostafiz Mou ; Tyler J McGilvry-James ; Ridwan Sakidja; |
| 690 | DPOLY Question & Answer Session on Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: DPOLY Question & Answer Session on Polymers Wednesday, March 16, 2022 (6:15pm- 7:15pm) … |
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| 691 | Toward A Minimal DNA Origami for Seeding Tiled DNA Nanotube Bundles and Patterning Silos Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Using DNA origami, a self-assembly method for building arbitrary and highly addressable structures out of DNA, we designed what we believe to be the shortest possible seed for nucleating tiled DNA nanotubes from either end; 75% the size of the smallest seed described in the literature. |
Sarah Webster ; Deborah Fygenson; |
| 692 | Nanoscale Characterization of DNA Binding on Gold Nanostars Via Quantitative EELS Spectral Imaging Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: By combining quantitative scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) spectral mapping, we find a twofold increase in ligand density with respect to increase in surface curvature, indicating corressponding higher DNA binding. |
Sang hyun Bae ; Kwahun Lee ; Teri Odom ; Pinshane Huang ; Susanna Monti; |
| 693 | Optimizing Communication Speeds in DNA Origami Nanodevices Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, a kinetic theory to estimate the stepping rate constant of communicating DNA origami nanostructures of arbitrary lengths is introduced. |
Sebastian Sensale ; Pranav Sharma ; Gaurav Arya; |
| 694 | Self-Assembly of Nanoscale Architectures with DNA Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk I will discuss recent work towards this goal using DNA as a nanoscale, programmable building block [1-4]. |
Grigory Tikhomirov; |
| 695 | Seeing The Forces: Single Avalanching Upconverting Nanoparticles As Ultrasensitive Local Force Transducers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: It has recently been demonstrated that ensembles of upconverting nanoparticles (UCNPs) exhibit changes in their emission spectra due to applied stress [1, 2]. Avalanching UCNPs … |
Natalie Fardian-Melamed ; Changhwan Lee ; Hye Sun Park ; Ayelet Teitelboim ; Kevin WC Kwock ; Tom Darlington ; Bruce Cohen ; Emory Chan ; Sang Hwan Nam ; Yung Doug Suh ; P. James Schuck; |
| 696 | Grafted Polymer Architecture As A Tool to Inform Mechanisms of Polymer-Cell Membrane Interactions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we seek to study the mechanisms of polymer-lipid interactions by leveraging known structure-property relationships of graft polymers. |
Joseph Hassler ; Adelyn Crabtree ; Frank Bates ; Benjamin Hackel ; Timothy Lodge; |
| 697 | Fabrication Strategies of Peptide Rigid Rods with Computationally Designed Coiled-coils Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The presentation will discuss results from bundlemer building blocks with a wide range of charge characteristics that all have the same size, shape (i.e., nanocylinders that are 2 by 4 nanometers), and functionality to be linked together to form rigid rod polymers. |
Yi Shi ; Rui Guo ; Jeffery Saven ; Christopher Kloxin ; Darrin Pochan; |
| 698 | Nanoparticles Functionalized with Bundlemers and Bundlemer Rods Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: By incorporating substrate-binding terminal residues, we can design bundlemers to assemble with preferred orientation on a substrate to produce bundlemer brushes through either a grafting to approach, e.g., coupling bundlemer rods directly to a substrate through functionalized termini, or a grafting from approach, e.g., using a template layer of bundlemers as reaction sites for subsequent bundlemer coupling or assembly. |
Matthew Langenstein ; Darrin Pochan; |
| 699 | Polymer Nanoparticle Hydrogels: Physical Hydrogels with Extreme Extensibility Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We explore how these physically crosslinked materials exhibit functional yield stress values and gel-like properties across most frequencies depending on component stoichiometry. |
Abigail Grosskopf ; Eric Appel; |
| 700 | Citric Acid-modified Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticles As An Antibiotic Protein Carrier Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We observed that a higher concentration of CA leads to a greater negative surface charge of HAp NPs, which increases lysozyme loading capacity while maintaining its biological function during the adsorption/release process. |
Ruibo Hu ; Nita Sahai; |
| 701 | Biomimetic Porous Calcium Phosphate Nanoparticles with Lithium Ions Incorporation Induce Osteogenic Stem Cell Differentiation in Vitro and in Vivo Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here in, we have developed a novel type of CP nanoparticles (CaP), by mimicking bone forming precursors particles involved in bone mineralisation process. |
Sara Romanazzo ; Iman Roohani; |
| 702 | Using Phytoglycogen Nanoparticles to Improve The Water Solubility of Bioactive Compounds Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have explored improving the solubility of the insoluble carotenoid astaxanthin (ASX) through association with PG as a gateway to enhanced bioavailability. |
Nicholas van Heijst ; Michael Grossutti ; Jay Leitch ; Ciaran Henry ; John Dutcher; |
| 703 | Blending of Ionizable Polymers: Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here using molecular dynamics simulations, we probe blending of associating polymers using a bead-spring model as the strength of the associative groups is varied from 1 to 10KT. |
Rosita Sivaraj ; Gary Grest ; Dvora Perahia; |
| 704 | Phase Behavior of Colloids with Attractive Polymer-Mediated Interactions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We investigate the phase behavior of a colloid-polymer mixture with attractive bridging interactions in which the strength of the polymer adsorption can be tuned through the pH of the solution. |
Mariah Gallegos ; Diego Soetrisno ; Nayoung Park ; Jacinta Conrad; |
| 705 | Self-assembled Hybrid Multilamellar Vesicles of Phospholipids and Block Copolymers for Efficacious Delivery of Insoluble Drugs to Cells Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: A surprisingly high number of drugs (>70%) emerge as insoluble compounds. Paclitaxel is aneffective chemotherapeutic drug against many forms of cancer. However, low solubility … |
Nurila Kambar ; Cecilia Leal; |
| 706 | Stimuli-driven Jamming in Dense Suspensions: Training and Memory Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have designed responsive particles whose crosslink density can be reversibly tuned in the presence of external stimuli. |
Hojin Kim ; Hongyi Zhang ; Shrayesh Patel ; Heinrich Jaeger ; Stuart Rowan; |
| 707 | Charge Regulation Effects in Nanoparticle Self-assembly and Polyelectrolyte Complexation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present a hybrid Monte Carlo/molecular dynamics scheme that dynamically adjusts the charges of individual ionizable groups of objects while evolving the trajectories of these objects. |
Erik Luijten ; Tine Curk; |
| 708 | Ion-specific Nanoscale Forces in Charged Soft Matter Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We use semi-atomistic Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics simulations of counterions and explicit water confined between charged surfaces in order to unravel the origin of ion specificity and nanoscale cohesion relevant to systems ranging from biological membranes to clays or hydrated cement. |
Catherine McCarthy ; Emanuela Del Gado ; Abhay Goyal ; Francis Dragulet; |
| 709 | Electrostatic and Van Der Waal Control of Charged Chiral Assemblies Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Overall, our study represents a step towards a rational electrostatics-based approach for meso-shape selection and for controlling nm-scale structure in a continuous manner for chiral assemblies. |
Joseph Mccourt ; Changrui Gao ; Sumit Kewalramani ; Erik Roth ; Steven Weigand ; Monica Olvera De La Cruz ; Michael Bedzyk; |
| 710 | Effects of Nucleic Acid Secondary Structure on Complex Coacervation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we test the ability of a variety of nucleic acid structures to form coacervates by complexing with poly-l-lysine, and we show that more flexible nucleic acid structures are less prone to coacervation at higher salt conditions. |
Anna Nguyen; |
| 711 | Self-assembly of Charged Nanocrystals Into Strongly Electronically Coupled All-inorganic Supercrystalline Solids Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we report reversible self-assembly of colloidal, charged nanocrystals with conductive inorganic ligands into superlattices exhibiting optical and electronic properties consistent with strong electronic coupling between the constituent nanocrystals. |
Josh Portner ; Igor Coropceanu ; Eric Janke ; Dmitri Talapin; |
| 712 | Spontaneous and Ion-Specific Formation of Inverted Bilayers at Air/Aqueous Interface Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we demonstrate that inverted bilayer structures previously observed at oil/aqueous interfaces can also be formed at the air/aqueous interface. |
Ahmet Uysal ; Srikanth Nayak ; Raju Kumal; |
| 713 | Standalone 2-D Nanosheets and The Consequent Hydrogel and Coacervate Phases Formed By 2.5-nm Spherical U60 Molecular Clusters in Dilute Aqueous Solution Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Comparing with simple ions and large colloidal suspensions, macroions exhibit completely different solution behaviors since the size disparity between them and their counterions, … |
Yuqing Yang ; Yifan Zhou ; Jiahui Chen ; Tsuyoshi Kohlgruber ; Travis Smith ; Bowen Zheng ; Jennifer Szymanowski ; Peter Burns ; Tianbo Liu; |
| 714 | Landau Analysis of A Salt-free Polyanion/polycation Blends: A Continuum Approach Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In particular, we focus on the systems with disparity in dispersion interactions between the constituents, which affects the critical behavior of the blend. |
Junhan Cho; |
| 715 | The Breaking of Electroneutrality in A Phase Separating Polyelectrolyte Gel Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, I will revisit this assumption through the use of a novel phase-field model of a polyelectrolyte gel. |
Giulia Celora ; Matthew Hennessy ; Andreas Muench ; Barbara Wagner ; Sarah Waters; |
| 716 | Tunable Colloids with Dipolar and Depletion Interactions: Towards Field-switchable Crystals and Gels Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: With these switchable interactions, we study the “dipolar-depletion” phase diagram in real space via fluorescence confocal laser scanning microscopy, finding multiple states: fluid, crystalline clusters, disordered clusters, and an anisotropic field-induced gel. |
Shivani Semwal; |
| 717 | Grafted Nanoparticle Penetration Barriers in Polymers: Effect of Entropy Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we study the penetration of polystyrene-grafted Au nanoparticles (PGNPs) into an entropically/enthalpically coupled soft polymer film. |
Aparna Swain; |
| 718 | Engineering Polymer Brush Nanoparticles to Disrupt Asphaltene Aggregation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We will describe how these nanoparticle-polymer formulations can be used to inhibit asphaltene, a class of macromolecules found in crude oils, deposition of mineral surfaces. |
Sibani Biswal; |
| 719 | Evolution of Polymer Colloid Structure During Precipitation and Phase Separation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We demonstrate that during solvent exchange, polymer–solvent phase separation of a homogeneous condensate can precede polymer–polymer phase separation for blends of polymers that possess some degree of miscibility. |
Jason Liu ; Navid Bizmark ; Douglas Scott ; Richard Register ; Mikko Haataja ; Sujit Datta ; Craig Arnold ; Rodney Priestley; |
| 720 | Aqueous Formulation of Concentrated Semi-conductive Fluid Using Polyelectrolyte Complexation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This work shows that polyelectrolyte complexation is a promising route to the formulation of highly loaded conjugated polymer fluids for industrial-scale fabrication, with added benefits on charge transport through the improved control of the conjugated polymer conformation. |
My Linh Le ; Dakota Rawlings ; Scott Danielsen ; Rhys Kennard ; Michael Chabinyc ; Rachel Segalman; |
| 721 | Effect of The Polymer Glass Transition on Size Stability in Salted Colloidal Dispersions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, the size stability of salted NP dispersions is demonstrated to directly correlate with the glassy behavior of constituent polymers. |
Douglas Scott ; Robert Prud’homme ; Rodney Priestley; |
| 722 | Increasing Ionic Conductivity Within Thermoplastics Melts Via Commercial Additives to Enable Mesoscale Fiber Formation from Melt Electrospinning Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We used an unconfined configuration (i.e., needle-free) that mitigates the practical challenges of high viscosity and enables a fundamental study of the length scales impacted by viscosity and those altered by conductivity*. |
Laura Clarke ; Neelam Sheoran ; Brenton Boland ; Samuel Thornton ; Jason Bochinski; |
| 723 | Macromolecular Engineering of Degradable Photocurable Resins Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Future work includes the incorporation of functionalized particles and fillers for advanced applications that require controlled and predictable delivery. |
Travis Walker ; Whytneigh Duffie ; Tsvetanka Filipova ; Timothy Brenza; |
| 724 | Unexpected Phase Behavior in Polymer Blend Electrolytes Detected Via Small Angle Neutron Scattering Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Small angle neutron scattering (SANS) offers an unambiguous method for determining phase behavior by utilizing contrast in scattering lengths. |
Kevin Gao ; Rachel Snyder ; Jaeyong Lee ; Geoffrey Coates ; Nitash Balsara; |
| 725 | The NSoft Autonomous Formulation Laboratory: X-Ray and Neutron Scattering for Industrial Formulation Discovery Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we describe the development of the Autonomous Formulation Laboratory, a highly adaptable platform capable of autonomously synthesizing and characterizing liquid mixtures with varying composition and chemistry using x-ray and neutron scattering in addition to a suite of secondary measurements such as optical imaging, UV-vis-NIR and capillary rheometry. |
Peter Beaucage ; Tyler Martin; |
| 726 | AC-electrospinning Nanofibers from Polymer-CdTe QD Complex Coacervates Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we have investigated a facile and rapid ac-electrospinning process to fabricate luminescent flexible, ultralong fibers through complex coacervate of polyethylene (PEG) coated CdTe QDs and polyacrylic acid (PAA), where the complex viscoelasticity can be modified by compositions to enable the nanofiber spinning. |
JAMUNA VAISHNAV ; Yingxi Elaine Zhu; |
| 727 | Polymer Dynamics, Rheology & Processing: Flexibility, Extensibility, and Charge Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We characterize the pinching dynamics as well as shear and extensional rheology of solutions of four model polyelectrolytes poly(sodium 4-styrenesulfonate) (NaPSS), poly(acrylic acid) (PAA), xanthan gum (XG), and sodium carboxymethylcellulose (NaCMC) as a function of solvent and salt concentration. |
Vivek Sharma; |
| 728 | Determining The Number-average Molecular Weight of Polyelectrolytes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: The molecular weight of polyelectrolytes can be reliably measured using terminal modulus (G) (M n=c mRT/G Mn=cmRTG ) for polyelectrolytes with a high degree of polymerization, or … |
Aijie Han ; Veera Venkata Shravan Uppala ; Daniele Parisi ; Christy George ; Benjamin Dixon ; Xiuli Li ; Louis Madsen ; Ralph Colby; |
| 729 | Quantifying The Effect of Multivalent Ions in Polyelectrolyte Solutions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We apply a recently developed scaling approach utilizing the concentration dependence of the specific viscosity of polymer solutions to quantify the properties of carboxymethyl cellulose and polystyrene sulfonate solutions with mono- and divalent counterions. |
Michael Jacobs ; Andrey Dobrynin ; Carlos Lopez; |
| 730 | Effect of Charge Density and Sequence on Physical Properties of Salt-free Polyelectrolyte Solutions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Polyelectrolytes are polymers with ionizable monomers. Due to the electrostatic interactions, polyelectrolytes exhibit weaker scalings compared to neutral polymers for viscosity, … |
Mohammad Hossein Khalili Samani ; Taniya Pathiranage ; Amanda Marciel; |
| 731 | How to Quantify Properties of Polysaccharide Solutions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The structural diversity of polysaccharides contributes to a complexity in finding universal frameworks to describe their solution properties. |
Ryan Sayko ; Michael Jacobs ; Andrey Dobrynin; |
| 732 | Early Onset of Non-Linear Response in Entangled Monodisperse DNA Solutions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We recently[1] discovered that λ-phage DNA, a double-stranded linear DNA having a molecular weight of 48.5 kbp (3.1×10 7 g/mol), that this ideally monodisperse system did not behave in the same way as do synthetic polymers. |
Gregory McKenna ; Sourya Banik ; Dejie Kong ; Michael San Francisco; |
| 733 | Probing Conformation Effects on Structure and Dynamics of Unentangled Polyelectrolyte Solutions Using Neutron Scattering Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we examine the effects of chain conformation, varied through ionic strength, on the structure and dynamics of sodium polystyrene sulfonate in aqueous solutions. |
Ali Slim ; Ryan Poling-Skutvik ; Antonio Faraone ; Jacinta Conrad; |
| 734 | Behaviour of Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate (NaPSS) in Aqueous NaCl Solutions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we investigate the rheological behaviour of NaPSS with different molar masses (M w ~ 30 – 2000 kg/mol) in aqueous salt solutions under a broad range of polymer and added salt concentrations and examine the applicability of the scaling theory for polyelectrolyte solutions to these measurements. |
Anish Gulati ; Carlos Lopez; |
| 735 | Solution Rheology of Polyelectrolytes with Monovalent and Divalent Counterions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We report solution rheology data for the sodium, magnesium and calcium salts of polystyrene sulfonate (PSS) and carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) in salt-free aqueous solutions as a function of polymer concentration and molar mass. |
Carlos Lopez ; Ferenc Horkay ; Walter Richtering; |
| 736 | Shear-Induced Counterion Release of A Polyelectrolyte Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: The shear-induced changes in counterion distribution of a model polyelectrolyte, sodium polystyrene sulfonate (NaPSS), is investigated at single molecular level. Fluorescence … |
Jiang Zhao ; Kaikai Zheng ; Kuo Chen ; Weibin Ren ; Jingfa Yang; |
| 737 | Probing Shear Thinning of Liquids at High Strain Rates Using Simulations and Machine Learning Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We demonstrate that dimension reduction methods can expedite the analysis of data generated by nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of small-molecular liquids such as squalane. |
Vikram Jadhao ; JCS Kadupitiya; |
| 738 | Characterization of As-Prepared Polymeric Films By Simultaneously Measuring The Glass Transition, Crystallinity, and Order-Disorder Transition Through The Restitution Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Thus, we developed a new intuitive technique to simultaneously measure the T g, X c, and T ODT by measuring the restitution of a ball on intact polymeric films based on the Hertz contact theory and rheology. |
Jinwon Park ; Seongsoo Han ; Hyeonjung Park ; Jaehong Lee ; Suchan Cho ; Myungeun Seo ; Bumjoon Kim ; Siyoung Choi; |
| 739 | Eight Decades In One Rheometer: Exploring The Dynamics of Complex Polymers, Measuring from Millihertz to A Hundred Kilohertz in A Single Device Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present an investigation of the shear mechanical dynamics of filled and unfilled rubbers across eight decades in frequency. |
Mathias Mikkelsen ; Jorge Lacayo-Pineda ; Tina Hecksher ; Tage Christensen; |
| 740 | Effects of Ionic Group Distribution on The Structure and Dynamics of Amorphous Polymer Melts: Molecular Dynamics Simulations Insight Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Using fully atomistic molecular dynamics simulations, we study the structure and dynamics of amorphous polystyrene sulfonate with random, precise (number of carbons between ionizable groups is exact), and blocky distributions of the ionizable groups along the backbone. |
Supun Mohottalalage ; Dipak Aryal ; Bryce Thurston ; Gary Grest ; Dvora Perahia; |
| 741 | Effects of Cluster Cohesion on Structure and Dynamics of Ionizable Polymer Melts at High Ion Contents: Molecular Dynamics Simulations Study Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Ionic clusters control the structure and dynamics of ionizable polymers. Hence, correlation of cluster cohesion with structure and dynamics is crucial to understand their … |
Shalika Meedin ; Gary Grest ; Dvora Perahia; |
| 742 | Theory of Swelling Dynamics of Polyelectrolyte Gels Under External Electric Fields and Geometric Constraints Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we study the swelling dynamics of polyelectrolyte hydrogel under the effects of external electric fields and geometric constraints. |
Sohyun Jung ; Ho-Young Kim; |
| 743 | Influence of Charge Fraction on The Phase Behavior of Symmetric Charged-Neutral Diblock Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, a series of poly[(oligo(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate– co–oligo(ethylene glycol) propyl sodium sulfonate methacrylate)]- block-polystyrene diblock copolymers were synthesized as a model system to probe the effect of charge fraction on the phase behavior of symmetric charged-neutral diblock copolymers. |
Bo Zhang ; Caini Zheng ; Michael Sims ; Frank Bates ; Timothy Lodge; |
| 744 | Phase Behavior of Partially Charged Polymer Ternary Blends Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we examine the phase behavior of three ternary systems composed of poly[(oligo(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate- co-oligo(ethylene glycol) propyl sodium sulfonate methacrylate)] (POEGMA), polystyrene (PS) and the corresponding block copolymer (POEGMA -PS), with different charge fractions. |
Caini Zheng ; Bo Zhang ; Timothy Lodge; |
| 745 | An Investigation of The Phase Behaviour of Poly(ethylene Oxide)/Poly(methyl Methacrylate) Blend Electrolytes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we investigated the effect of added salt on a miscible polymer blend system. |
Neel Shah ; Lilin He ; Kevin Gao ; Nitash Balsara; |
| 746 | Cluster Cohesion of Ionomer Regime Swollen Melts Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Structure and dynamics of polymer melts in the ionomer regimes are affected by the backbone as well as the ionizable groups. On the path to understanding the immense effect a … |
Chathurika Kosgallana ; Gary Grest ; Dvora Perahia; |
| 747 | Influence of Chain Rigidity on Ion Dynamics in Polymerized Ionic Liquids: Insight from High-pressure Dielectric Studies Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we investigate, over a broad range of temperature and pressure, the ion dynamics of two PILs with different chain rigidity (flexible ethylene oxide vs. rigid vinyl-imidazolium) by using broadband dielectric spectroscopy. |
Shinian Cheng ; Zaneta Wojnarowska ; Joshua Sangoro ; Marian Paluch; |
| 748 | Assembly of Ionizable Triblock Co-Polymer in THF Solutions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We find that across all sulfonation levels, the ionizable blocks as well as the t-butyl styrene blocks assume an extended conformation. |
John Bracewell ; Supun Mohottalalage ; Gary Grest ; Dvora Perahia; |
| 749 | Electrostatic Interactions and Conformations of Polyelectrolyte Chains Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We will present our understanding that we have developed on this topic, especially for two systems – single isolated polyelectrolyte chains and oppositely charged polyelectrolyte chains. |
Souradeep Ghosh ; Arindam Kundagrami; |
| 750 | Quantifying The Interaction Between Two Polyelectrolyte Chains Using Constraint Self-consistent Field Theory Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we developed a constraint self-consistent field theory that enables us to quantify the potential of mean force as a function of center-of-mass separation. |
Chao Duan ; Luofu Liu ; Rui Wang; |
| 751 | Polyelectrolyte Complex Sponges with PH Responsiveness Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Sponges composed of nanorods or short polymer nanofibers are useful for many applications. The main challenge of creating a 3D skeleton from nanostructured elements stems from the … |
Eyal Zussman ; Gleb Vasilyev ; Patrick Martin; |
| 752 | Response of The Polyelectrolyte Brushes to External Electric Field and The Associated Flow Modifications: An Atomistic Perspective Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we study the effect of external fields on PE brushes using all-atoms molecular dynamics simulations. |
MD Turash Haque Pial ; Harnoor Sachar ; Siddhartha Das; |
| 753 | Electrostriction-enhanced Giant Piezoelectricity Via Relaxor-like Secondary Crystals in Extended-chain Ferroelectric Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we report that electrostriction can be significantly enhanced in poled poly(vinylidene fluoride- co-trifluoroethylene) [P(VDF-TrFE)] random copolymers containing extended-chain primary crystals and relaxor-like secondary crystals in the oriented amorphous fraction (SC OAF). |
Lei Zhu ; Zhiwen Zhu ; Guanchun Rui ; Elshad Allahyarov ; Ruipeng Li ; Fabrice Domingues Dos Santos ; Hezhi He ; Philip Taylor; |
| 754 | The Active Regulation of Pressure and Volume in Cell Aggregates Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We explore the relationship between the non-equilibrium generation of myosin-induced ‘active’ stress within the cell cytoskeleton and the pressure-volume relationship of cellular aggregates as models of simple tissues. |
Michael Murrell ; Vikrant Yadav ; Sulaiman Yousafzai ; Sorosh Amiri; |
| 755 | Microrheology of An Active Suspension of Swimming Bacteria Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we study the nonlinear response and force fluctuations of a probe particle suspended in a moderately dense suspension of swimming E.coli (0.2 vol frac). |
Mauricio Gomez ; Hunter Seyforth ; William Rogers ; Jennifer Ross ; Wylie Ahmed; |
| 756 | Kinetic Viscoelasticity During Early Polymer-polymer Spinodal Dewetting Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: The dewetting kinetics of a supported polymer bilayer were measured in-situ using coherent grazing incidence x-ray scattering. X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) … |
Jyotsana Lal ; Laurence Lurio ; Dennis Liang ; Suresh Narayanan ; Seth Darling ; Mark Sutton; |
| 757 | Mapping Nonlinear Stress Propagation in Non-equilibrium Complex Fluids Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we combine optical tweezers microrheology (OTM) with differential dynamic microscopy (DDM) to map the time-dependent deformation fields arising from local nonlinear straining in ‘topologically-active’ DNA fluids. |
Karthik Peddireddy ; Ryan Clairmont ; Philip Neill ; Jonathan Garamella ; Ryan McGorty ; Rae Anderson; |
| 758 | DNA Dynamics in Crowded Cell-sized Droplets Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we investigate the dynamics, conformations, and organization of DNA molecules confined in cell-sized droplets and crowded by dextran polymers. |
Mehdi Shafiei Aporvari ; Steven Dang ; Juexin Marfai ; Kara Coursey ; Ryan McGorty ; Rae Robertson-Anderson; |
| 759 | Extensional Rheology of Colloid-Polymer Mixtures with Depletion Attractions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we study the effect of depletant size and dispersity on the extensional rheology of model colloid-polymer mixtures using a dripping-onto-substrate protocol. |
Jacinta Conrad ; Diego Soetrisno ; Mariah Gallegos ; Nayoung Park; |
| 760 | Active Pressure and Local Entropy Production of Bacterial Suspensions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our study reveals the intrinsic relation between active pressure and the time irreversibility of nonequilibrium systems. |
Satyam Anand ; Xiaolei Ma ; Shuo Guo ; Stefano Martiniani ; Xiang Cheng; |
| 761 | Active Microrheology of Multi-phase Field Models of Biological Tissue Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We use a multi-phase field model of motile cells to simulate microrheology experiments of a tissue monolayer. |
Austin Hopkins ; Michael Chiang ; Benjamin Loewe ; Davide Marenduzzo ; Cristina Marchetti; |
| 762 | Sticky Crumpled Matter Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work we discuss how surface/surface interactions (adhesion) affect the compressive strength of a model crumpled polymer sheet. |
Andrew Croll ; Wenjie Xia ; Wathsala Jayawardana ; Theresa Elder ; Yangchao Liao ; Zhaofan Li; |
| 763 | Auxetic Bending Response in Crumpled Membranes of Magnetic Nanoparticles Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We will show that crumpled nano-films can have an auxetic bending response. |
Edward Esposito ; Heinrich Jaeger; |
| 764 | Autonomous Oscillations in A Colloidal Fluid Driven By Cyanobacterial Circadian Rhythms Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We show that the colloids can oscillate between liquid-like states, with individual colloids diffusing freely, to states in which colloids form large clusters with minimal motion, in sync with the binding cycles of KaiC and KaiB. |
gregor leech ; Alyxandra Vyn ; Michael Rust ; Moumita Das ; Jennifer Ross ; Rae Robertson-Anderson; |
| 765 | Sustained Order-Disorder Transitions in A Model Colloidal Network Crosslinked Via Oscillator Proteins Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Motivated by this, we investigate a 2D model colloidal network that can repeatedly transition between disordered states of low connectivity and ordered states of high connectivity when crosslinked by rhythmic oscillators motivated by bacterial proteins that maintain circadian rhythms. |
Lauren Melcher ; Elisabeth Rennert ; Jennifer Ross ; Michael Rust ; Rae Robertson-Anderson ; Moumita Das; |
| 766 | The Origin of Multi-periodic Cycles in Cyclically Sheared Amorphous Solids Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we focus on cycles that have periodicity larger than the periodicity of the drive. |
Asaf Szulc ; Ido Regev ; Muhittin Mungan; |
| 767 | Calculation of Effective Properties of Composite Materials with Periodic Microstructures Using The Asymptotic Homogenization Method Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The current work aims at implementing the proposed AHM method to structures with aligned spheroidal inclusions of various aspect ratios and conductivity ratios, thus providing a more generalized approach to predict the effective electrical conductivity. |
Easwar Kumar ; Anubhab Roy ; Arockiarajan A; |
| 768 | Microporous Nanoparticle Emulsion Thermosets for Multi-material, Multifunctional Porous Nanocomposites Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have developed microporous nanoparticle emulsion thermosets (MiNET), a new class of nanocomposites made from epoxies and nanoparticles, a liquid porogen, and a small quantity of surfactant. |
Yogin Patel ; Michael Grzenda ; Arielle Marie Gamboa ; Molla Hasan ; Charm Nicholas ; Jonathan Singer; |
| 769 | Spontaneous "wave Ripples" Through Sequential Wrinkling Interference Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we report the formation of `sand ripple’ patterns by the sequential superposition of non-orthogonal surface waves excited by the spontaneous buckling of polymeric bilayers. |
Luca Pellegrino ; Joao Cabral ; Annabelle Tan; |
| 770 | Deformations of Compliant Textured Surfaces Due to Surface Stress Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We develop a microfabrication technique to produce compliant textures with large amplitude and extend these investigations to compliant textures with higher aspect ratio, h/w ~ 1. |
Lebo Molefe ; John Kolinski; |
| 771 | Flexible Fibrillar Surface Array Morphology As A Function of Inter-Fibril Interactions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We use fluorescent microscopy to monitor the evolution of these structures as a function of ambient pH, salinity, and dissolved polymer. |
Demi Moed ; Alfred Crosby; |
| 772 | Self-Assembly of 2D Host-Guest Pore Networks Via Entropy Compartmentalization Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we show that athermal binary mixtures of simple concave star particles and convex polygon guest particles form HG networks. |
Tobias Dwyer ; Timothy Moore ; Joshua Anderson ; Sharon Glotzer; |
| 773 | Size-dependent Polarizability of Mesoscopic Ionic Clusters During Assembly Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Using coarse-grained simulations, we demonstrate that the ionic polarizability of electrically neutral ionic clusters, and hence their induced-dipole interactions, vary as charged particles aggregate into the clusters during assembly. |
Trung Nguyen ; Felipe Jimenez ; Monica Olvera De La Cruz; |
| 774 | Viscosity Metamaterials Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we introduce a new class of metamaterials- viscosity metamaterials- created by applying acoustic perturbations to a shear thickening suspension. |
Prateek Sehgal ; Meera Ramaswamy ; Itai Cohen ; Brian Kirby; |
| 775 | Perylene-based Self-Assembly of Chloroplast-like Lamellae for Artificial Photosynthesis Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we report a self-assembled structure composed of multi-perylene bisimides (PBIs) and a polyoxometalate (POM) catalyst as a guest, building highly ordered three-dimensional (3D) non-covalent assembled lamellas in water. |
Vasilis Petropoulos ; Mattia Russo ; Francesco Rigodanza ; Luca Moretti ; Thomas Gobbato ; Andrea Sartorel ; Maurizio Prato ; Giulio Cerullo ; Marcella Bonchio ; Margherita Maiuri; |
| 776 | Bundlemers-peptide Nanoparticles for Hierarchical Material Assembly Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Using this tunability, we have used bundlemers as macromonomers to create stiff and extremely high aspect ratio supramolecular polymers through covalent chemistry between the neighboring bundlemer ends. |
Darrin Pochan; |
| 777 | Capsids Under Compression Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk we use dynamical Monte Carlo simulations to investigate icosahedral shells undergoing compression between two parallel walls. |
Botond Tyukodi ; Farzaneh Mohajerani ; Michael Hagan; |
| 778 | Microscale Mechanics and Structural Organization of Cross-linked Actin Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We actively drive a microsphere 10 micrometers through cross-linked actin networks at a constant speed and measure the resistive force that the network exerts on the bead during and following strain. |
Michael Dwyer ; Bekele Gurmessa; |
| 779 | Autonomous Robotic Platform (PolyBot) for Conjugated Polymer Processing Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This talk will introduce the utilization of the self-driving lab -PolyBot (https://www.anl.gov/cnm/polybot) for autonomously controlling the assembly of conjugated polymers towards targeted structures for desired electronic properties. |
Jie Xu; |
| 780 | New Informatics Tools to Help Make Polymer Data Bigger Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Data-driven research has the potential to change the way that we explore the world around us and solve new problems, but in polymer science we are limited by the way we handle data. |
Bradley Olsen; |
| 781 | MLExchange, Bringing Machine Learning to The Beamline Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We will present our first developments in the field of labeling, segmentation, and XRD. |
Alexander Hexemer; |
| 782 | Improving Prediction and Understanding with Theory Aware Machine Learning Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we aim to tackle both of these problems by incorporating domain knowledge into machine learning models. |
Debra Audus; |
| 783 | Data Driven Approaches to Quantifying Charge Transport in Semiconducting Systems Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We describe a computationally scalable methodology using graph theory to explore the influence of molecular ordering on charge mobility. |
Baskar Ganapathysubramanian; |
| 784 | Deep Potential Molecular Dynamics of Water Self-ionization Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we combined deep neural network potentials with enhanced sampling techniques to perform extensive atomistic simulations of water self-ionization at finite temperature. |
Marcos Andrade ; Roberto Car ; Annabella Selloni; |
| 785 | Dynamics of Wrinkle-Ridge Transition in Graphene Supported on A Polymer: Quantum Molecular Dynamics Simulations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have investigated the formation of wrinkles and ridges in graphene placed on a polyethylene substrate using quantum molecular dynamics (QXMD) simulation. |
Anikeya Aditya ; Shogo Fukushima ; Ankit Mishra ; Ken-ichi Nomura ; Fuyuki Shimojo ; Aiichiro Nakano ; Priya Vashishta ; Rajiv Kalia ; Mark Stevens; |
| 786 | A Critical Assessment of Neural Network Potentials for Water and The Role of Nuclear Quantum Effects Through The Van Hove Correlation Function Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we assess two different neural network potential (NNP) based modeling strategies within classical MD in predicting the spatiotemporal correlations in liquid water i.e., the Van Hove correlation function (VHF). |
Murali Gopal Muraleedharan ; Paul Kent; |
| 787 | Many-body Interatomic Potential with Bayesian Active Learning, An Application of SiC Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we present a highly efficient BAL workflow, where MLIPs is constructed using Gaussian process (GP) kernels based on the atomic cluster expansion (ACE) descriptors which is trained efficiently with MPI parallelization. |
Yu Xie; |
| 788 | Opto-Electro-Mechanical Control of Ferroelectric Topological Structures for Ultralow Power Topotronic Devices Using Hybrid Neural Network Quantum Molecular Dynamics and Molecular Mechanics Simulations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To understand how to electrically and mechanically manipulate these complex structures we have developed a hybrid Neural-Network (NN) and Molecular Mechanics (MM) approach. |
Thomas Linker ; Ken-ichi Nomurra ; Shogo Fukshima ; Rajiv Kalia ; Aravind Krishnamoorthy ; Aiichiro Nakano ; Kohei Shimamura ; Fuyuki Shimojo ; Priya Vashishta; |
| 789 | Active Learning of Reactive Bayesian Force Fields: Application to Heterogeneous Catalysis Dynamics of H/Pt Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we introduce FLARE++, a Bayesian active learning method for training reactive many-body force fields on the fly during molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. |
Jonathan Vandermause ; Yu Xie ; Jin Soo Lim ; Cameron Owen ; Boris Kozinsky; |
| 790 | Committee Disagreement Biased Active Learning of Interatomic Potentials Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We explore several ways of incorporating this adversarial attack scheme into practical structure generation schemes like molecular dynamics and our contour exploration scheme [1] for efficient active learning of interatomic potentials. |
Michael Waters ; James Rondinelli; |
| 791 | Ab Initio Thermodynamics of Ferroelectrics: The Case of PbTiO3 Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our approach includes anharmonic effects beyond the limitations of reduced models and of the linear approximation for the polarization. |
Pinchen Xie ; Yixiao Chen ; Weinan E ; Roberto Car; |
| 792 | Designing Machine Learning Surrogates Using Outputs of Molecular Dynamics Simulations As Soft Labels Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We show that these uncertainties can be utilized to informate the training of deep neural networks for designing machine learning surrogates aimed at predicting the relationship between input variables and simulation outputs. |
Jayanath Chamindu Sandanuwan K Kadupitige ; Nasim Anousheh ; Vikram Jadhao; |
| 793 | Machine-Learning-Guided Discovery of 19F MRI Agents Enabled By Automated Copolymer Synthesis Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Modern polymer science suffers from the curse of multidimensionality. The large chemical space imposed by including combinations of monomers into a statistical copolymer … |
Olexandr Isayev; |
| 794 | An Interpretable Model for Polydiketoenamine Recyclability Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we identify design rules for recyclable PDK chemistries using an interpretable model. |
Rithwik Ghanta ; Kristin Persson ; Max Venetos ; Alexander Epstein ; Brett Helms ; Jeremy Demarteau ; Hai Wang; |
| 795 | Measuring Mechanical Properties at High-throughput Using Centrifugation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we develop a high-throughput colorimetric screening method for adhesion using a common laboratory centrifuge, multiwell plates, and microparticles. |
Muzhou Wang ; Yusu Chen ; Qifeng Wang ; Carolyn Mills ; Johanna Kann ; Kenneth Shull ; Danielle Tullman-Ercek; |
| 796 | Benchmarking Machine Learning Models for Polymer Informatics: An Example of Glass Transition Temperature Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The three major components in setting up an ML model are structure representations, feature representations, and ML algorithms. |
Ying Li ; Lei Tao ; Vikas Varshney; |
| 797 | Data-efficient Machine Learning Mimicking Human Intelligence in Fundamental Materials Science Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, I will give an introduction on data-efficient machine learning that mimics human intelligence in terms of creating digital counterpart of fundamental materials science concepts. |
Jian Yang ; Teresa Karjala ; Ellen Du ; Kyle Hart ; Babli Kapur ; YuanQiao Rao; |
| 798 | Using Transfer Learning to Leverage Prior Knowledge in The Prediction of Adhesive Free Energies Between Polymers and Surfaces Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we demonstrate a transfer learning (TL) technique with a deep neural network (DNN) to improve the accuracies of ML models trained on small datasets when a larger database from a related system is available. |
Jiale Shi ; Yamil Colón ; Jonathan Whitmer; |
| 799 | Briding The Scale-Gap: Transfer Learning for Fudamental Polymer Properties Using Molecular-Dynamics Simulation Data Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we will discuss our recent effort to tackle the above challenge by combining MD simulation and transfer learning (TL). |
Umi Yamamoto ; Masahiro Kitabata; |
| 800 | Active Learning of Many-Body Transferable Coarse Grained Interactions in Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we extend the idea of Gaussian process based on-the-fly active learning schemes applied to all-atom systems to coarse-grained applications of hydrocarbon liquids. |
Blake Duschatko ; Jonathan Vandermause ; Nicola Molinari ; Boris Kozinsky; |
| 801 | Phase Behavior Predictions of Binary Linear Polymer Solutions Using Machine Learning Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we show that a curated experimental data set consisting of 14 linear polymers and 46 solvents can be used to train machine learning models (random forest, XGBoost, and deep neural networks) to predict the cloud point temperature to within 3 °C, and capture various phase behaviors, ranging from upper and lower critical solubility curves, pressure effects (isopleths), and closed-loop behavior. |
Jeffrey Ethier ; Rohan Casukhela ; Joshua Latimer ; Matthew Jacobsen ; Richard Vaia; |
| 802 | Unsupervised Learning of Sequence-specific Aggregation Behavior for Model Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The machine learning algorithm we develop is able to classify the global aggregate structure directly using descriptions of the local environments. |
Antonia Statt ; Devon Kleeblatt ; Wesley Reinhart; |
| 803 | Molecular Dynamics Simulations Combined with Gaussian Process Regression to Investigate Block Copolymer Orientation in Thin Films Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This AE loop iterates to build a robust model of the system. |
Suwon Bae ; Marcus Noack ; Kevin Yager; |
| 804 | Microstructural Descriptors for Data-driven Prediction of Energetics and Structures of Polymer Mesophases Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we develop a set of sensitive lower-order microstructural descriptors for species density fields, which are generalizations of those previously designed for characterizing two-phase heterogeneous materials and are physically interpretable. |
Duyu Chen ; Yao Xuan ; Kris Delaney ; Hector Ceniceros ; Glenn Fredrickson; |
| 805 | Accelerating Langevin Field-Theoretic Simulation with Semantic Segmentation Model Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In order to accelerate the L-FTS, we introduce deep learning (DL). |
Daeseong Yong ; Jaeup Kim; |
| 806 | "Ultra-bright, Small and Photostable Nanoprobes for Optical Super-Resolution Microscopy Imaging of Nanostructured Soft Materials" Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we introduce a novel class of ultrasmall aluminosilicate nanoparticles (aC’ dots) employed in stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) using a single excitation source and without requiring specific aqueous imaging buffers. |
Uli Wiesner; |
| 807 | Informed Design of Polymer-Selective Nanoprobes for Optical Super-Resolution Microscopy Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We employ both active chemical and passive physical compatibilization strategies to promote selective aC’ dot targeting of specific polymer nanodomains in model block copolymer (BCP) thin films. |
Dana Chapman ; Ulrich Wiesner; |
| 808 | Correlative Nanomechanical Mapping and Super-resolution Optical Microscopy in PDMS/PMMA Interpenetrating Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We investigate the molecular distribution of the opposing polymers within the microstructure by correlating peak force quantitative nanomechanical mapping (PF-QNM) with super-resolution optical microscopy (SROM) in PDMS/PMMA IPNs to directly relate mechanical modulus to PDMS fraction in each phase. |
Tyler Heyl ; Anthony Silvaroli ; Jeremy Beebe ; Dongchan Ahn ; Shane Mangold ; Kenneth Shull ; Muzhou Wang; |
| 809 | Tunable Optical Gratings and Mechanochromic Surfaces By Wrinkling of Plasma-Oxidised PDMS Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We report strain-modulated uni- and multi-axial phase gratings induced by wrinkling of plasma-oxidised polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). |
Annabelle Tan ; Luca Pellegrino ; Joao Cabral; |
| 810 | Switchable Soft Photonic Bio-Adhesives Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we present switchable soft photonic bio-adhesives with real-time colorimetric monitoring of reversible adhesion behavior by employing a responsive bio-photonic matrix with the dynamic hydrogen-bonding network. |
Minkyu Kim ; Daria Bukharina ; Dhriti Nepal ; Timothy Bunning ; Vladimir Tsukruk; |
| 811 | Bright, Non-iridescent Structural Coloration from Clay Mineral Nanosheet Suspensions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we demonstrate that bright non-iridescence structural coloration easily and rapidly can be achieved from suspended two-dimensional nanosheets of a clay mineral. |
Jon Otto Fossum ; Paulo Henrique Michels Brito ; Josef Breu ; Volodymyr Dudko ; Daniel Wagner ; Paul Markus ; Georg Papastavrou ; Leander Michels; |
| 812 | Origin of Thickness-dependent Circularly Polarized Luminescence in Chiral Polymer Films Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we present a comprehensive analytical theory that explains this unusual dependence of the polymer’s CPL on film thickness. |
Nikita Tepliakov ; Jessica Wade ; Matthew Fuchter ; Johannes Lischner ; Arash Mostofi; |
| 813 | Launching A Tug-of-War Between Bacteria and Bi-phase Droplets Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we develop simple droplet based optical micro-transducers that can not only readily distinguish between live and dead bacteria but are also capable of gauging the metabolic levels of individual cells by tracking the time dependent force generated by a bacterium with sub piconewton resolution. |
Hari Vijayamohanan ; Hannah Feldstein ; Jan Totz ; Alberto Concellón ; Jie Li ; Mathias Kolle ; Timothy Swager; |
| 814 | Electro-optics and Material Properties of Oblique Helicoidal Cholesteric Tested at Oblique Incidence of Light Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we explore electro-optics of the Ch OH for an oblique incidence of light. |
Olena Iadlovska ; Kamal Thapa ; Mateusz Mrukiewicz ; Hari Bisoyi ; Daniel Patterson ; Ewan Cruickshank ; Grant Strachan ; John Storey ; Corrie Imrie ; Quan Li ; Sergij Shiyanovskii ; Oleg Lavrentovich; |
| 815 | Directed Self-assembly and Post Assembly Modification of Polymerizable Blue-phase Single Crystals Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we demonstrate that chemical patterns can be used to grow single crystals of a photopolymerizable blue-phase. |
Kushal Bagchi ; Tadej Emeršič ; Juan De Pablo ; Paul Nealey; |
| 816 | Concave Paraboloid Liquid Crystal Microlenses with Integrated Pancharatnam–Berry Phase Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we demonstrate that applying shear flow can produce plano-concave liquid crystal lens arrays with paraboloid aspheric profiles. |
Kelum Perera; |
| 817 | Mesoscale Simulations of Liquid Crystalline Diblock Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have developed a mesoscale model that we are using to study both isotropic-to-nematic and order-disorder phase transitions of SCLC diblock copolymers. |
Austin Meng; |
| 818 | Study of Nonlinear Optical Properties of Gold Nanoparticles Dispersed in Degenerate and Oriented Nematic Liquid Crystals Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work we studied the structural and nonlinear optical properties of 20 nm AuNPs that are dispersed in degenerate (non-oriented) and oriented nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) using polarizing microscopic technique and optical Z-scan technology, respectively. |
Shengwei Wang ; Changshuo Fu ; Mohamed Amine Gharbi ; Chandra Yelleswarapu; |
| 819 | Examination of Non-universalities in Entangled Polymer Melts and Solutions During The Startup of Steady Shear Flow Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The possibility of non-universality during inception of shear flow at large strain rates has recently been questioned so was recently examined using the discrete slip-link model (DSM). |
Jay Schieber ; Diego Becerra ; Andrés Córdoba; |
| 820 | Entanglement Kinetics in Polymer Melts Are Chemically Specific Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The model predicts that the melt disentangles due to convective-constraint release and re-entangles on the Rouse time due to contour length fluctuations at the chain ends. |
Benjamin Dolata ; Marco Galvani Cunha ; Peter Olmsted; |
| 821 | Bottom-up Multiscale Approach to Estimate Viscoelastic Properties of Entangled Polymer Melts with High Glass Transition Temperature Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: A multiscale computational method is presented for the prediction of the viscoelastic properties of entangled homopolymer melts with high glass transition temperatures. |
Heyi Liang ; Kenji Yoshimoto ; Phwey Gil ; Masahiro Kitabata ; Umi Yamamoto ; Juan De Pablo; |
| 822 | The Effect of Microstructure on Polyisoprene Melt Dynamics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we systematically investigate the properties of PI random copolymers using detailed all-atom molecular dynamics simulations. |
Rohit Ghanta ; Patrycja Polinska ; Craig Burkhart ; Vagelis Harmandaris ; Manolis Doxastakis; |
| 823 | Yield Stress Dependence on The Nanostructure of 3D Printable Epoxy/Block Copolymer Inks Using Rheological Creep Testing Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this presentation, we will build on this previous work to show the effects of the ink composition and the resultant BCP nanostructure on the yield stress of these materials. |
Sean Sutyak ; Daniel Krogstad; |
| 824 | Structural and Rheological Investigation of Polymer-Grafted Cellulose Nanocrystals Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We will present the effect of polymer grafting parameters (graft density and length) on the network formation via hydrogen bondings between chains. |
Yang Ge ; Pinar Akcora; |
| 825 | Multiscale Modeling of Viscosity Index Improver (VII) Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We demonstrate the capability of this approach by predicting various properties, including critical micelle concentrations and phase transitions, of a model system consisting of acrylic copolymers in a model base oil and discuss the possibility of using analytical theories to estimate rheological properties from field-based simulation outputs. |
Charles Li ; Glenn Fredrickson ; M. Scott Shell ; Kris Delaney; |
| 826 | Tuning The Relaxation Spectra of Vitrimers Via Crosslinker Chemistry and Mixing Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: To design materials for vibrational damping applications, tuning the rheological relaxation spectra is key. Controlling the placement, breadth, and height of spectrum peaks … |
Laura Porath ; Christopher Evans; |
| 827 | Defining The Electrospinning Window Through Solvent Effects on Extensional Rheology Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we study polymer solutions typically used in electrospinning (low and high MW PVP in methanol and water, and PEO and PVA in water). |
Elena Ewaldz ; Blair Brettmann; |
| 828 | Spinnability and Rheology of PEO Solutions in Water/Acetonitrile Mixtures Via Centrifugal Force Spinning Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this contribution, we investigate the influence of polymer concentration and solvent properties on the centrifugal spinning process and fiber morphology. |
Cheryl Slykas ; Jorgo Merchiers ; Carina Martinez ; Naveen Reddy ; Vivek Sharma; |
| 829 | Dripping-onto-substrate Extensional Rheometry of The Ultralong Supramolecular Polymer Solutions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this research, ultralong supramolecular polymers were produced through a coordination complex between metal ions and ligands at both ends of linear building blocks. |
Junsu Chae ; Siyoung Choi; |
| 830 | Linear Viscoelastic Behavior of Supramolecular Polymer Networks from Non-telechelic Associative Block Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In the present work, the focus is on block copolymers that associate into micelles via hydrophobic blocks distributed along the chain. |
Ruth Cardinaels ; An-Sofie Huysecom ; Paula Moldenaers; |
| 831 | Scalable 3D Printing for Topological Mechanical Metamaterials Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We confirm in finite-element simulations that in the printed material, the surface is softer than the bulk. |
Guido Baardink ; Achilles Bergne ; Evripides Loukaides ; Anton Souslov; |
| 832 | Architected Soft Matter and The 4th Dimension Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, additive manufacturing of various soft matter using projection micro-stereolithography (PµSL) is presented. |
Howon Lee; |
| 833 | Self-Limiting Assembly of CdS Nanoparticles Into Complex Corrugated Microparticles Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we present a joint computational and experimental study of a model system of uniformly-sized CdS-based corrugated particles (HPs) that self-assemble from polydisperse nanoparticles (NPs). |
Thi Vo ; Lanqin Tang ; Drew Vecchio ; Tao Ma ; Jun Lu ; Harrison Hou ; Sharon Glotzer ; Nicholas Kotov; |
| 834 | Mechanical Tunability of Hierarchical Porous Polymer Thin Films Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we examine a model glassy material, polystyrene (PS), a model plasticized material, PS blended with styrene-butadiene-styrene block copolymer (Kraton), and a model crosslinked plastic, SU-8 epoxy resin crosslinked with Versamid 125 crosslinking agent. |
Robert Green-Warren ; Abigail Ren ; Noah McAllister ; Luc Bontoux ; Asaad Shaikh ; Jae-Hwang Lee ; Assimina Pelegri ; Jonathan Singer; |
| 835 | In-air Polymerization and Crosslinking of Monomers During Electrospray Deposition Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To alleviate this, this study focuses on spraying monomers, which can be sprayed at a much higher weight percentage than their corresponding polymers, blended with a photoactivated polymerizing agent (Omnirad 819 and Esacure 1001M blends) and crosslinker (polyethylene glycol diacrylate) under ultraviolet light to create polymers mid-spray. |
Jonathan Singer ; Catherine Nachtigal ; Michael Grzenda; |
| 836 | Tuning Stoichiometry to Kinetically Enhance The Self-Assembly of Binary Colloidal Crystals Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our work provides a new way to overcome kinetic limitations and achieve binary self-assembly. |
Ronald LaCour ; Timothy Moore ; Sharon Glotzer; |
| 837 | Neutron Dark-field Imaging of Hierarchical Structures Using INFER Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We will present simulated and measured results from model colloidal systems using a prototype INFER and discuss the outlook for future user experiments. |
Daniel Hussey ; Caitlyn Wolf ; Youngju Kim ; M. Cyrus Daugherty ; Sarah Robinson ; Ryan Murphy ; David Jacobson ; Jacob LaManna ; Peter Bajcsy ; Paul Kienzle ; Nikolai Klimov ; Kathleen Weigandt ; Michael Huber; |
| 838 | Controlling The Porous Structures of Block Copolymer Based Carbon Fibers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Block copolymer (BCP)-derived porous carbon fibers (PCFs) are emerging versatile materials that show great potential for applications ranging from energy storage to separation and … |
Guoliang Liu; |
| 839 | Polybutadiene Copolymers Via Atomistic and Systematic Coarse-Grained Simulations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present a bottom-up methodology to obtain coarse-grained (CG) models for butadiene copolymers, derived from more than one species of monomers, via detailed atomistic simulations. |
Anastassia Rissanou ; Antonis Chazirakis ; Patrycja Polinska ; Craig Burkhart ; Manolis Doxastakis ; Vagelis Harmandaris; |
| 840 | Frustrated Liquid Crystalline Phases: Compatibility Conditions for Three-dimensional Director Fields Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we will show that in three dimensions five local fields are required to uniquely describe a director field and that these fields are related to each other and to the curvature tensor of the embedding space through six compatibility conditions. |
Luiz C. B. da Silva ; Efi Efrati; |
| 841 | Cumulative Geometric Frustration and The Intrinsic Approach in Continuous Systems Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, I will discuss how the intrinsic approach, in which matter is described only through local properties, leads to a general framework in which the geometric compatibility conditions assume a central role. |
Efi Efrati; |
| 842 | The Effects of Discretization on Geometric Frustration;a Study of A Potts-like Spin Lattice System Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work we study an N-state Potts spin-lattice system in which frustration is induced by favoring a slight misalignment between adjacent spins. |
Snir Meiri ; Efi Efrati; |
| 843 | Self-Limitation and Condensation in Geometrically Frustrated Assembly Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present the phase diagram for finite temperature geometrically frustrated assembly, delineating the boundaries between dispersed, (finite width) aggregates and bulk condensed states. |
Nicholas Hackney ; Chris Amey ; Gregory Grason; |
| 844 | Multitask Learning of Reactive Force Fields and Collective Variables to Accelerate Molecular Dynamics and Enhanced Sampling of Rare Catalytic Events Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This work uses a multitask learning framework[1] based on Neural Equivariant Interatomic Potentials (NequIP)[2] to train force fields with quantum chemical accuracy and discover critical collective variables for highly efficient free energy landscape exploration. |
Lixin Sun ; Simon Batzner ; Albert Musaelian ; Jonathan Vandermause ; Yu Xie ; Steven Torrisi ; Wei Chen ; Boris Kozinsky; |
| 845 | Atomic Cluster Expansion Descriptors for Structural Dataset Analysis and Classification Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: The Atomic Cluster Expansion (ACE) is a general set of rotationally-invariant local structural descriptors that have proven effective for constructing interatomic potentials that … |
James Goff ; Mitchell Wood ; Aidan Thompson; |
| 846 | Billions of Atoms with Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials: Performance Portability of FLARE Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we present a performance portable implementation of the FLARE interatomic potential. |
Anders Johansson ; Boris Kozinsky; |
| 847 | Training Machine Learned Interatomic Potentials for Chemical Complexity – Application to Refractory CCAs Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we will discuss the methodology behind the development of a generalized refractory CCA MLIAP using the spectral neighbor analysis potential (SNAP) method and demonstrate how it can be used to model CCA properties and behavior in extremes of temperature and strain rate. |
Megan McCarthy; |
| 848 | Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials: Training Data Selection for Accuracy and Transferability Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This work demonstrates that in order to establish accurate, yet transferable potentials, a systematic approach to training data selection is required. |
David Montes de Oca Zapiain ; Mitchell Wood ; Danny Perez ; Carlos Pereyra ; Nicholas Lubbers ; Aidan Thompson; |
| 849 | Towards Systematically Improvable Deep Learning Interatomic Potentials with E(3)-Equivariant Cluster Expansions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we discuss the Deep Interatomic Cluster Expansion (DICE), an equivariant neural network that learns many-body information without message passing or convolutions. |
Albert Musaelian ; Simon Batzner ; Boris Kozinsky; |
| 850 | Molecular Dynamics Simulations in TensorFlow Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We introduce TensorFlow Molecular Dynamics (TFMD), a system to develop molecular dynamics simulations and seamlessly integrate them with machine learning based enhancements. |
Prateek Sharma; |
| 851 | Order-disorder Transition of Ice in An Ab Initio Machine Learning Model Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this article, we mimic the effect of doping with a bias potential that enhances the formation of ionic defects in molecular dynamics simulations. |
Pablo Piaggi ; Roberto Car; |
| 852 | Simulation of Crystallization and Thermal Conduction of Ge2Sb2Te5 Using Machine-learning Potential Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The training set construction is a critical step for proper sampling of potential-energy surface and we developed a cost-effective and efficient training scheme, namely, randomized atomic-system generator (RAG) scheme [1]. |
Youngjae Choi ; Pyung JIn Park ; Seung-Hoon Jhi; |
| 853 | Davis Computational Spectroscopy Workflow – from Structure to Spectra Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To address the trade-off between simulation cost and accuracy, we developed an automated workflow that connects various atomic simulation tools in order to investigate the relationship between material properties, lattice dynamics, and INS spectra. |
Lucas Cavalcante ; Luke Daemen ; Nir Goldman ; Ambarish Kulkarni ; Adam Moule; |
| 854 | A Descriptor for Molecular Environments in Molecular Crystals Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We fill this gap and present a descriptor, that when used as an input for a high dimensional neural network [4], can accurately describe hydrogen bonding and van der Waals interactions between molecules in molecular crystals. |
Marco Krummenacher ; Stefan A Goedecker; |
| 855 | Towards The Inverse Design of Molecules with Targeted Quantum-mechanical Properties Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Thus, in the present work, we investigate the impact of including diverse global and local QM properties on the mapping between latent and property space employing a VAE on 3D geometric and/or electronic representations. |
Alessio Fallani ; Leonardo Medrano Sandonas ; Kyunghoon Han ; Alexandre Tkatchenko; |
| 856 | Soft, Biologically Inspired Materials for Neuromorphic Memristors and Memcapacitors Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This talk will describe the development and characterization of neuromorphic elements for brain-inspired computing such as memristors and memcapacitors assembled from soft materials like lipids, polymers, peptides, proteins, and redox-active molecules. |
Charles Collier; |
| 857 | Machine Learning Approach to Identify Critical Configurations for Strong Electronic Coupling Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we develop an automated method to calculate electronic coupling that considers the effect of polarization and hence gives a more accurate description. |
Puja Agarwala ; Shane Donaher ; Baskar Ganapathysubramanian ; Enrique Gomez ; Scott Milner; |
| 858 | The Use of Small Angle Neutron Scattering Data to Support Dark Field Data Analysis in Far-field Interferometry Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: One limitation is that it provides a sample-averaged view of the structure, making the study of heterogeneous materials difficult with SANS alone. |
Caitlyn Wolf ; Youngju Kim ; Peter Bajcsy ; Paul Kienzle ; Daniel Hussey ; Katie Weigandt; |
| 859 | High-throughput Microrheology of Polymer Solutions and Gels Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we report a new method for extracting microrheology information using differential dynamic microscopy (DDM). |
Matthew Helgeson ; Yimin Luo ; Alexandra Bayles ; Yuekun Heng ; Maneesh Gupta ; Todd Squires ; Megan Valentine ; Matthew Helgeson; |
| 860 | Predicting The Glass Transition of Complex Polymers Via Integration of Machine Learning, Theory and Molecular Simulations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we establish an integrated framework based on machine learning (ML) and molecular simulations to predict T g for a diverse set of CPs and other polymers with a drastic difference in their chemical structures. |
Wenjie Xia ; Amirhadi Alesadi ; Zhaofan Li ; Zhiqiang Cao ; Xiaodan Gu; |
| 861 | Diverse Property-spectrum of Flavors of Polyolefins: A Data Analysis Study Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Such data analysis studies are useful (1) to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the sources of property value variations, and (2) improving existing machine learning models for property prediction by incorporating features in the fingerprint (i.e., representation of polymers) derived from key features known to affect properties. |
Arunkumar Rajan ; Oliver Hvidsten ; Chiho Kim ; Rampi Ramprasad; |
| 862 | Machine Learning Discovery of Multi-Functional Polyimides Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Aiming to discover high-performance polyimides, we utilize computational methods of machine learning (ML) techniques and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. |
Lei Tao ; Jinlong He ; Vikas Varshney ; Ying Li ; Wei Chen; |
| 863 | HI Vs AI: Designing Solvent-free Brush Networks with Tissue-like Mechanical Properties Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We developed a design strategy of solvent-free networks made by crosslinking brush-like strands which is based on a theoretical model of the nonlinear network deformation and Machine Learning approach. |
Andrey Dobrynin ; Sergei Sheiko ; Anastasia Stroujkova; |
| 864 | Illuminating Stress and Failure in Polyethylene with A Neural Network Potential Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have thus trained a neural network potential (NNP) based on the SCAN density functional potential energy surface which yields energies within 1 meV/atom of the ab-initio results yet is several orders of magnitude more efficient. |
Mark Dellostritto ; Simona Percec ; Michael Klein; |
| 865 | Machine Learning-based Study of Mechanical Properties of Dynamically Crosslinked Polymer Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we utilize Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations to investigate the relationship between polymer network configuration and the resulting mechanical properties of crosslinked polymer composites. |
Mehdi Zanjani ; Alexandra Filiatraut; |
| 866 | Application of Machine-learned Constitutive Relations for Well-entangled Polymer Melt Flows Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this presentation, we will use benchmark Multi-Scale simulation results to present a detailed error analysis of our ML predictions and their computational efficiency. |
Souta Miyamoto ; John Molina ; Takashi Taniguchi; |
| 867 | Machine Learning Parametrization of A Coarse-grained Epoxy Model at Varying Crosslink Density Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: A persistent challenge in molecular modeling of thermoset polymers is capturing the effects of chemical composition and degree of crosslinking (DC) on dynamical and mechanical properties with high computational efficiency. |
Andrea Giuntoli ; Nitin Hansoge ; Anton van Beek ; Zhaoxu Meng ; Wei Chen ; Sinan Keten; |
| 868 | Identifying Accelerated Ageing Pathways for Cross-Linked Polyethylene Pipes Using Principal Component Analysis Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We used infrared (IR) microscopy to build a database of high-spatial resolution spectra of cross-sections of pipes subjected to different types of accelerated ageing. |
Michael Grossutti ; Melanie Hiles ; Joseph D’Amico ; William Wareham ; Benjamin Morling ; Scott Graham ; John Dutcher; |
| 869 | Computational Optical Microscopy By PSF Engineering – or – How and Why to Ruin A Perfectly Good Microscope Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk I will describe how this method enables unprecedented capabilities in localization microscopy; specific applications include dense emitter fitting for super-resolution microscopy, multicolor imaging from grayscale data, volumetric multi-particle tracking/imaging, dynamic surface profiling, and high-throughput in-flow colocalization in live cells. |
Yoav Shechtman; |
| 870 | Quadratic Electro-optic Effect in The Nonconjugated Conductive Polymer Iodine-doped Polyethylene Terephthalate Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Quadratic electro-optic effect has been measured in the nonconjugated conductive polymer iodine-doped polyethylene terephthalate (PET). The measurement has been made using … |
Mrinal Thakur ; Justin Van Cleave; |
| 871 | Templating Polymer/Chromophore Co-Crystallization in Block Copolymer Domains Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Recently we reported an alternative approach in which an NLO chromophore is co-crystallized with a polymer, forming a non-centrosymmetric hybrid host-guest complex. |
Yifan Xu ; Robert Hickey; |
| 872 | Two-photon Spectroscopy Reveals Protonation-induced Symmetry-breaking in The Ground Electronic State of Nominally Centrosymmetric Organic Fluorophores Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we use femtosecond 2PA spectroscopy to show, for the first time, that a nominally centrosymmetric organic fluorophore can be switched from a centrosymmetric- to non-centrosymmetric state and back by variation of pH of the solution. |
Aleks Rebane ; Charles Stark ; Matt Rammo ; Meelis-Mait Sildoja ; Juri Pahapill ; Aleksander Trummal ; Merle Uudsemaa ; Olena Vakuliuk ; Bartosz Szymanski ; Ganiel Gryko; |
| 873 | Prediction of Effective Optical Properties of Anisotropic Composites Beyond The Quasistatic Limit Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We apply our new formulas to a variety of hyperuniform and nonhyperuniform disordered anisotropic models. |
Jaeuk Kim ; Salvatore Torquato; |
| 874 | Low-threshold Exciton-polariton Condensate Via Fast Polariton Relaxation in Organic Microcavities Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we demonstrated a room-temperature polariton condensate at a threshold pump fluence of 9.7 ± 0.1 μJ cm −2, in a microcavity containing 4,4′-bis(( E)-4-(3,6-bis(2-ethylhexyl)-(9 H-carbazol-9-yl))styryl)-1,1′-biphenyl (BSBCz-EH). |
Tomohiro Ishii ; Kiyoshi Miyata ; Masashi Mamada ; Fatima Bencheikh ; Fabrice Mathevet ; Ken Onda ; Stéphane Kéna-Cohen ; Chihaya Adachi; |
| 875 | Solution-processed Hybrid Organic/inorganic Microcavities for Exciton-polaritonics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present here a polymer-based organic/inorganic hybrid material with unique and versatile properties, including a tunable refractive index, low optical losses, and solution-processability, applied for the fabrication of active microcavities. |
Victoria Quiros Cordero ; Natalie Stingelin ; Carlos Silva ; Pascal Grégoire; |
| 876 | Magnetic Dipole Emission in Profile-modulated Metal-dielectric-metal Structure Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In our experiment, we study the electric and magnetic dipole emission from Eu3+ ions in the profile modulated three-layer Ag-Emitter layer-Ag structures. |
MD Afzalur Rab ; John Munga ; Natalia Noginova; |
| 877 | Holographic Immunoassays: Direct Detection of Antibodies Binding to Colloidal Spheres Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: The size of a probe bead reported by holographic particle characterization depends on the proportion of the surface area covered by bound target molecules and so can be used as an … |
Kaitlynn Snyder ; David Grier ; Andrew Hollingsworth ; Rushna Quddus ; Kent Kirshenbaum; |
| 878 | Topological Supermodes in Photonic Crystal Fibre Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The fibre is made using a stack-and-draw technique in which glass capillaries are stacked, molten, and drawn to desired size. |
Nathan Roberts ; Guido Baardink ; Joshua Nunn ; Peter Mosley ; Anton Souslov; |
| 879 | Silicon Inverse Colloidal Diamond Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this session, I will be discussing how we can grow larger, more functional crystals, and invert those crystals with Silicon to make a high-index inverse diamond. |
Johnathon Gales ; Xinhang Shen ; David Pine; |
| 880 | Dexterous Holographic Trapping of Dark-seeking Particles with Zernike Holograms Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The ideal hologram for a DoG trap being purely real-valued, we introduce a method based on the Zernike phase-contrast principle to project real-valued holograms with the phase-only diffractive optical elements used in standard holographic optical trapping systems. |
Jatin Abacousnac ; David Grier; |
| 881 | Simulations of The Dynamics of Colloidal Sphere Clusters in Laguerre-Gaussian Beams Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We use T-matrix light scattering computations to efficiently model the optical forces acting on the clusters even when the clusters are far from positional or orientational trapping equilibria. |
Jerome Fung; |
| 882 | The Coarsening of Very Wet Foams in Two and Three Dimensions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, I will point out the important of the area-weighted side number distribution and I will review our efforts to generalize the von Neumann law to wet foams. |
Douglas Durian; |
| 883 | Dynamic Interplay Between Flow and Bubbles in Polymer Foaming Drives Surprising Consequences for Nucleation and Ripening Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We capture these behaviors in a custom, high-pressure microfluidic flow-focusing device using high-speed microscopy. |
Andrew Ylitalo ; Huikuan Chao ; Thomas Fitzgibbons ; Valeriy Ginzburg ; Weijun Zhou ; Richard Flagan ; Zhen-Gang Wang ; Julia Kornfield; |
| 884 | 3D Printing of Thermally Activated Polymer Foams with Controlled Porosity and Tunable Mechanical Properties Via Digital Light Processing Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To address this challenge, we developed a two-step process involving 3D photopolymerization followed by a thermal processing step to fabricate thermally-activated polymer foams with tunable porosity and material properties. |
Younghoon Kwon ; Megan Valentine ; Craig Hawker ; Soyoung Seo ; Neil Dolinski ; Jeffrey Self ; Caitlin Sample ; Christopher Bates; |
| 885 | Bubble Nucleation in The Surfactant Stabilized Polyol-CO2 Mixtures: Insights from A Classical Density Function Theory Study Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work using classical density functional theory we will compare and contrast our observations on the CO 2 bubble nucleation from a homogeneous polyol+CO 2+SPE mixture and from a preformed SPE micelle in the system. |
Sriteja Mantha ; Huikuan Chao ; Andrew Ylitalo ; Benjamin Laccetti ; Thomas Fitzgibbons ; Weijun Zhou ; Valeriy Ginzburg ; Richard Flagan ; Julia Kornfield ; Zhen-Gang Wang; |
| 886 | Fabrication of Hybrid Inorganic-organic Foams By Atomic Layer Deposition and Sequential Infiltration Synthesis Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Herein, we modify the conventional polymeric foams to hybrid polymer-ceramic foams using atomic layer deposition (ALD) and sequential infiltration synthesis (SIS) for metal oxide growth (e.g., ZnO, Al 2O 3 and TiO 2) onto and within the polymer strands of the foam, respectively. |
Kirti Sankhala ; Tamar Segal-Peretz; |
| 887 | A Generalized Size-Topology Identity for 2-dimensional Dry Foams Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Combining self-similarity with the von Neumann law, we derive a new identity connecting moments of the area distribution with averages of the side-number distribution that are weighted by powers of bubble area. |
Anthony Chieco ; James Sethna ; Douglas Durian; |
| 888 | Foam Film Drainage and Nanoscopic Topography of Micellar Sodium Caseinate Solutions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we characterize the drainage of protein-based foams as well as single foam films, and contrast their behavior with micellar foams formed with small molecular surfactants above the critical micelle concentration. |
Lena Hassan ; Vivek Sharma ; Chenxian Xu ; Michael Boehm ; Stefan Baier; |
| 889 | Foam Coarsening Under Steady Shear : Interplay Between Bubble Rearrangements and Film Thinning Dynamics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We introduce a new protocol where brief oscillatory measurements are inserted within a steady shear, allowing us to monitor the relative variation of the bubble size with time, and as a function of an applied shear. |
Arnaud Saint-Jalmes ; corentin tregouet; |
| 890 | Instability of The 1D Thickness Profile at The Edge of A Horizontal Foam Film and Its Plateau Border Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We identify a limit in which the bulk drainage and the surface rearrangements are decoupled, the film thus evolving in a sliding-puzzle-like dynamic. |
Corentin Tregouet ; Isabelle Cantat; |
| 891 | The Stability of Saline Foams Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In order to study foam collapse on multiple lengthscales, we constructed an imaging setup to study the foam simultaneously on the macroscopic scale and the bubble scale, and automated the analysis to enable studies that span days instead of minutes. |
Anand Yethiraj ; Tatsuo Izawa ; Lesley James; |
| 892 | Ultra-high Thermally and Electrically Conductive Polymer-expanded Graphite Composites Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Inclusion of porous expanded graphite structure into polymer matrix has been examined in this study. |
Fatema Tarannum ; Swapneel S. Danayat ; Avinash Nayal ; Rajmohan Muthaiah ; Jivtesh Garg; |
| 893 | Robust Co-continuous Nanostructures By Microphase Separation of Randomly Cross-linked Polystyrene and Poly(2-vinylpyridine) Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: RCCNs provide a high degree of tunability of polymer chain- and crosslinker functionalities, both of which have been investigated in this study. |
Jaechul Ju ; Ryan Hayward; |
| 894 | High Performance, Tunable Sensory Platform Based on Porous Ionogels for Electrical and Optical Dual-Output Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we propose porous ion gels for high-performance, functional ionic sensory platforms. |
Jin Han Kwon ; Yong Min Kim; |
| 895 | Anomalous Glass Transition Breadths of Random Ionomers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we report a simple yet versatile approach to tune the glass transition range of a family of random ionomers via their side-chain structure and charge fraction. |
Han Umana ; Trung Nguyen ; Jeremy Wang ; Monica Olvera De La Cruz ; John Torkelson; |
| 896 | Decoding The Conditions for Aperiodicity in Complex Diblock Micelle Packings Via Breakout Crystallization Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To this end we designed a crystalline amorphous poly(ethylene oxide)- block-poly(2-ethyl hexylacrylate) diblock copolymer that undergoes breakout crystallization. |
Andreas Mueller ; Aaron Lindsay ; Ashish Jayaraman ; Timothy Lodge ; Mahesh Mahanthappa ; Frank Bates; |
| 897 | Spin-coated Mesoporous Thin-film Quantum Materials from Block Copolymer Self-assembly Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Superconducting niobium carbonitride thin films are prepared from the self-assembly of block copolymers (BCPs) and niobia sol nanoparticles. The fabrication pathway starts with … |
Fei Yu ; Randal Thedford ; Ulrich Wiesner; |
| 898 | Phase Formation in Architecturally Asymmetric Coil-brush Diblock Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, five sets of norbornene-based coil- block-bottlebrush copolymers with high conformational asymmetry were synthesized using grafting-through living ring-opening metathesis polymerization with poly(norbornene- exo, exo-dimethyl ester) as the coil block and bottlebrush blocks containing oligomeric poly(ethylene- alt-propylene) side chains. |
McKenzie Coughlin ; Lucy Liberman ; Jerrick Edmund ; Frank Bates ; Timothy Lodge; |
| 899 | Priming Self-Assembly Pathways By Stacking Individual BCP Layers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We developed a pathway priming strategy where BCP initial configurations ( i.e., the initial spatial distribution of chains) are engineered to be structured in nontrivial ways. |
Sebastian Russell ; Kevin Yager ; Masafumi Fukuto ; Suwon Bae; |
| 900 | Controlling Nano- and Micro-Scale Ordering in Biomimetic Non-Equilibrium Hydrogels Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we propose a new, non-equilibrium method where the triblock copolymer is first dissolved in a water-miscible solvent favorable for both polymer blocks, then transferred to a mold and immersed in a water bath. |
Elisabeth Lloyd; |
| 901 | Melt-processed Polyethylene Nanofilms Via Layer Multiplying Coextrusion: Exploring Scaling Laws Relating Tensile Properties to Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we use an alternative approach to produce nanofilms of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) of varying thickness and crystalline morphology. |
Dayne Plemmons; |
| 902 | Entropic Partitioning and Entropy-enthalpy Compensation (EEC) Effect in Relaxation of Nanopatterned Polymer Blend and Nanocomposite Films Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We study slumping of imprinted polymer grafted nanoparticle (PGNP) systems, high molecular weight, block copolymer systems under direct immersion annealing (DIA) in solvent mixture, and cyclic polymer systems compared to linear ones. |
Alamgir Karim; |
| 903 | Supramolecular Structures of Alternative Polymer-nanoparticle Hybrids Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this contribution, we investigate the formation of the supramolecular structure of linear alternating polystyrene (PS)-polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) polymer hybrids (LAPH), through a combination of small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) and rheology. |
Shalin Patil ; Ruikun Sun ; Shiwang Cheng ; Xiaobing Zuo ; Xuehui Dong ; Dongdong Zhou; |
| 904 | A Meso-scale Simulation Study of Short-range Morphologies and Properties of Thermoplastic Polyurethane Affected By Graphene Nano-fillers Under External Flow Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In particular, we have investigated the effects of local interactions, compositions, and chemistry of components on the final morphologies of materials. |
Sunsheng Zhu ; Shaghayegh Khani ; Joao Maia; |
| 905 | Non-diffusing Melts of 3-dimensional Architectured Polymers: Giant Molecules and Soft-nanoparticles, and The Boundary of The Liquid-solid Transition Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We propose an equation to describe their relaxation time as a function of diameter and crosslinking degree. |
Gengxin Liu; |
| 906 | Memory Effect in Simulations of Asymmetric Diblock Copolymers Under Thermal Processing Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To develop an understanding of this memory effect, we perform simulations of a time-dependent Landau-Brazovskii model, which has stability regions for disorder, BCC, FCC, as well as Frank-Kasper phases. |
Yang Yang ; Robert Wickham ; Anchang Shi; |
| 907 | Understanding and Designing The Collective Dynamics of Droplets of Active Nematic Fluids Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we examine the behavior of droplets of an active nematic fluid. |
Yuan-Nan Young ; David Stein ; Michael Shelley; |
| 908 | Spontaneous Flow Transition in Confined 3D Active Nematic Droplets Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This study provides a first novel method to measure active stresses in biomimetic active matter, which is a requirement for a quantitative comparison between experiments and theory. |
Salman Alam ; Guillaume Duclos; |
| 909 | Topological Defect-propelled Swimming of Nematic Colloids Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: More generally, this work aims to develop biomimetic active matter based on the underlying relevance of topology. |
Tianyi Yao ; Ziga Kos ; Yimin Luo ; Edward Steager ; Miha Ravnik ; Kathleen Stebe; |
| 910 | Understanding Active Turbulence in Fluidized Dry Active Nematics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To elucidate the fundamental generation mechanism of active turbulence within 2D dense, dry SPRs, we perform large-scale Brownian dynamics simulations and investigate the cyclic process by which dry SPRs undergo persistent swarming motions. |
Bryce Palmer ; Sheng Chen ; Patrick Govan ; Wen Yan ; Tong Gao; |
| 911 | Agent-based Simulation Studies of Dry Active Nematics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We study an agent-based simulation model of active nematics, represented as flexible coarse-grained filaments, to explore the role of filament properties in governing collective behavior. |
Michael Varga ; Robin Selinger; |
| 912 | Physics of Blood Clotting in Insects Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We studied surface properties of different Lepidoptera species ( Manduca sexta, Vanessa cardui and Enyo lugubris) to compare with aqueous Apolipophorin-III (ApoLp-III) protein solutions from Manduca sexta and Bombyx mori. |
Artis Brasovs ; Andrew Derasmo ; Paul Weers ; Konstantin Kornev; |
| 913 | Colloidal Inclusions in Active Nematics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We describe experimental studies which explore the intricate relationship between the shape and dynamics of colloidal particles immersed in active nematic liquid crystals. |
Sattvic Ray ; Jie Zhang ; Paul Atzberger ; Cristina Marchetti ; Zvonimir Dogic; |
| 914 | Microscopic Active Forces Have Mesoscopic Elastic Consequences Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we use a combination of experimental perturbations, machine learning, and microscopic modelling to investigate how changes in specific molecular motor properties are manifested at the scale of the system. |
Steven Redford ; Mehdi Molaei ; Sasha Zemsky ; Jonathan Colen ; Paul Ruijgrok ; Edwin Munro ; Vincenzo Vitelli ; Zev Bryant ; Aaron Dinner ; Margaret Gardel; |
| 915 | Migration and Division of 3T6 Cells Near Topological Defects with Integer Charge Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we investigate the effects of topological defects in cell monolayers (3T6) with nematic order. |
Kirsten Endresen ; Kurmanbek Kaiyrbekov ; Wei-Hung Jung ; Yun Chen ; Brian Camley ; Francesca Serra; |
| 916 | Domain Separation in Bacterial Monolayers on Curved Surfaces Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We study the interplay of nematic and granular behavior through hard-rod simulations of growing bacterial colonies confined to the surface of spherical droplets, varying the aspect ratio of the bacteria and the curvature of the surface. |
Blake Langeslay ; Gabriel Juarez; |
| 917 | Flows and Forces in The Collective Motion of The Nematode Turbatrix Aceti Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this presentation, we will discuss both these flows and the forces that they generate. |
Anton Peshkov ; Sonia McGaffigan ; Alice Quillen; |
| 918 | Fuel-free Light-driven Colloidal Swimmers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present swimmers made by an oil droplet partially wetting a black dynabead that use no chemical fuel and are driven solely by light. |
Aditya Vikram Hardikar ; Matan Yah Ben Zion ; Andrew Hollingsworth ; Paul Chaikin; |
| 919 | Flocking Of Actin Propelled Beads Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this project, we created dense suspensions of micron sized beads propelled by polymerizing actin filaments. |
Joseph Lopes ; Guillaume Duclos ; Benjamin Strain ; Bruce Goode; |
| 920 | Strong Coupling Between The Director Field and Fluid Flow in Microtubule-based Active Nematics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present direct experimental evidence on the correlation between these velocities and we derive a nematic transport equation for this system. |
Kevin Mitchell ; Ibrahim Abu-Hijleh ; Amanda Tan ; Linda Hirst; |
| 921 | Probing Dynamics of Photo-Gelation in Polymeric Systems Using Rheology Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this presentation, we elucidate such characteristics using three systems of interest, acrylate-based free-radical crosslinking polymers, photo-active ion-containing biopolymers and photo-polymerizing coordinated ionic liquids. |
Saad Khan; |
| 922 | New Insights from Transient Nonlinear Recovery Rheology Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We show this overshoot to be due to an increase in energy dissipated through unrecoverable processes via an iterative recovery rheological protocol. |
Simon Rogers; |
| 923 | Dynamic Microenvironments Created By Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This work highlights the ability for a cell to selectively remodel their microenvironment during motility. |
Kelly Schultz ; Maryam Daviran ; John McGlynn; |
| 924 | Dynamics of Semi-dilute Polymer-particle Solutions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We explore the polymer-particle dynamics in this limit using multiparticle collision dynamics (MPCD), an advanced simulation algorithm for modeling solvent-mediated hydrodynamic interactions in mesoscale systems. |
Jeremy Palmer; |
| 925 | 3D Porous Liquid Crystal Elastomer Scaffolds As Cell Supports for Long-term Tissue Cultures Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: I will present mechanically tunable, biocompatible, and biodegradable liquid crystal elastomers and elastomers with a porous structure that have been made to specifically address the needs of two distinctive cell lines. |
Senay Ustunel ; Marianne Prévôt ; Grace Rohaley ; Robert Clements ; Elda Hegmann; |
| 926 | Enhanced Strength and Shape Memory in Microgel Filled Biopolymer Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We find that this combination of material components synergistically enhances the system material properties. |
Vignesh Subramaniam ; Thomas Angelini; |
| 927 | E-cadherin Substrates Alter The Biophysics of Collective Cell Migration and Proliferation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We investigate this by patterning zones of E-cadherin – a key cell-cell adhesion protein – and collagen on culture surfaces and explore how this ‘cell-mimetic’ biomaterial influences collective cell behaviors in macro-scale epithelial monolayers. |
Youn Kyoung Cho ; Kevin Suh ; Daniel Cohen; |
| 928 | Effect of Extracellular Matrix Age on Disease Progression Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk I will present our research in understanding biophysical and biochemical changes in the native tissue matrix with age and our efforts to create engineered tissue models that possess these variables to study myocardial infarction and breast cancer progression. |
Pinar Zorlutuna; |
| 929 | Cas Nucleases Binding Selectivity Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To further build upon previously established knowledge of CRISPR binding activity, selectivity and efficiency, we study analytical solutions to first passage times which can be successfully exploited to model binding affinity, and precision, across several Cas nucleases. |
Pete Rigas; |
| 930 | Topology-dependent Hole Transfer in G-quadruplex By Molecular Dynamics and Density Functional Theory Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we investigate such effects, by a combination of classical simulations of the structure and dynamics and quantum calculations of electronic couplings. |
Samprita Nandi ; Angel-Emilio Villegas Sanchez ; Colin Coane ; Angana Ray ; Rosa Di Felice; |
| 931 | The Mesoscale Order of Nacreous Pearls Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: By characterizing the entire structure of pearls (~3 mm) in cross-section at high resolution, we show nacre has medium-range mesoscale periodicity. |
Robert Hovden ; Jiseok Gim ; Alden Koch ; Laura Otter ; Benjamin Savitzky ; Sveinung Erland ; Lara Estroff ; Dorrit Jacob; |
| 932 | Enhancing Sustainability of Palm-Leaf Foodware By Secretion of Surface Wax Layer Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We study diffusion of water through the sheath using mass gain measurements and in situ observations of water transport. |
Debapriya Pinaki Mohanty ; Anirudh Udupa ; Mysore Dayananda ; Srinivasan Chandrasekar; |
| 933 | Electrospray Deposition As An Efficient Alternative to Coat Medical Devices Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We envision SLED as being a replacement for dip or conventional-spray coating, where its greatest advantage would be the potential for much higher materials utilization. |
Sarah Park ; Lin Lei ; Catherine Nachtigal ; Emran Lallow ; Maria Atzampou ; Alex Liu ; Jeffrey Zahn ; Hao Lin ; Jonathan Singer; |
| 934 | Antibacterial Activity of Pulsed Laser Synthesized Silver Nanoparticles Combined with Methylene Blue for Prosthetic Joint Infection Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, methylene blue (MB) functionalized silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) are used as an effective photodynamic therapy (PDT) agent for prosthetic joint infection (PJI). |
Somon Hakimov ; Salizhan Kylychbekov ; Shreya Neupane ; Simran Banga ; Ali Oguz Er; |
| 935 | Heat Transfer Through Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes for Photothermal Therapy of Cancer Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We use Dissipative Particle Dynamics with energy conservation (DPDe) package from Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator (LAMMPS) in order to study heat transfer from CNTs to the cell and surrounding medium. |
Delaram Nematollahi ; Kieran Mullen ; Dimitrios Papavassiliou; |
| 936 | Polyethylene Oxide Doped with Nano Cobalt Cerium Dioxide Nanocomposite As An Antimicrobial Surface Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we propose an innovative idea by using doping method in doping a polymeric surface with nano cobalt cerium dioxide (CeO 2:Co) forming a multifunctional polymeric nanocomposite complex. |
Ahmad Alsaad ; A Ahmad ; Q Al-Bataineh; |
| 937 | Polymorphism, Structure, and Nucleation of Cholesterol.H2O at Aqueous Interfaces and in Pathological Media: Revisited from A Computational Perspective Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We revisit the important issues of polymorphism, structure, and nucleation of cholesterol.H 2O using first principles calculations based on dispersion-augmented density functional theory. |
Margarita Shepelenko ; Anna Hirsch ; Neta Varsano ; Fabio Beghi ; Lia Addadi ; Leeor Kronik ; Leslie Leiserowitz; |
| 938 | Fast Equilibration Mechanisms in Disordered Materials Mediated By Slow Liquid Dynamics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We identify this molecular process with a slow relaxation mechanism, universally observed in the liquid dynamics of thin films. |
Simone Napolitano; |
| 939 | 4D-STEM Orientation Mapping in Anisotropic Molecular Glasses Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have used four dimensional – scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D – STEM) to study the molecular orientation domain structure of vapor-deposited thin film glasses of a phenanthroperylene ester, a discotic mesogen known to form an equilibrium columnar hexagonal phase. |
Mark Ediger ; Debaditya Chatterjee ; Shuoyuan Huang ; Kaichen Gu ; Junguang Yu ; Lian Yu ; Paul Voyles ; Harald Bock; |
| 940 | Development of Coarse-Grained Models for Glass Forming Liquids Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Coarse-grained potentials have been prepared using the iterated Boltzmann inversion technique, where real glass forming molecules are used as the target system. |
Jack Yungbluth ; Grigori Medvedev ; Brett Savoie ; James Caruthers; |
| 941 | Suppression of Beta Relaxation in Vapor Deposited Glass of Poly (methyl Methacrylate) Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We discuss our results by comparing the dielectric loss and capacitance measurements for different deposition temperatures and their resulting stabilities in PMMA. |
Zhaohui Cai ; Michael Thees ; Junjie Yin ; James Forrest; |
| 942 | Unifying Description of The Vibrational Anomalies of Amorphous Materials Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Via extensive simulations of LJ-like computer glasses, we relate amorphous materials’ vibrational anomalies. |
Shivam Mahajan; |
| 943 | Toward Understanding The Depletion of Two-level Systems in Glasses Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Based on the soft-potential model and the tunneling TLS model, we argue that the TLS correspond to the QLMs with being a typical frequency ω 0. |
Wencheng Ji; |
| 944 | Rigorous Foundation of The Adam-Gibbs Relation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this presentation, I give a rigorous proof of the Adam-Gibbs relation on the basis of the free energy landscape (FEL) approach to non-equilibrium systems [1]. |
Takashi Odagaki; |
| 945 | Computational Insights Into The Molecular Origins of The Chain Length Dependence of Polymers’ Glass Transition Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we report on results of bead-spring and all-atom simulations of polymer chains over a wide range of molecular weight, examining the relationship between chain length, local dynamics, and global dynamics during polymer glass formation. |
William Drayer ; David Simmons; |
| 946 | Excitations Provide A Thermodynamic Order Parameter for Liquid Dynamics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, for the first time, we measure excitations in real liquids and show that they obey Bose-Einstein statistics with enthalpy and entropy of creation closely related to that of melting. |
Marcus Cicerone; |
| 947 | Surface Relaxation of Vapor Deposited Polystyrene Glasses Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we use AFM to probe the temporal evolution of surface structure of vapor deposited polystyrene stable glasses. |
Junjie Yin ; Michael Thees ; James Forrest; |
| 948 | Studying The Kinetic Stability of Molecular Glasses Using Solvent Vapor Annealing Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we perform solvent vapor annealing (SVA) as an alternative approach and demonstrate that the mechanism by which the solvent penetrates a molecular glass film depends on the solvent vapor pressure. |
Shivajee Govind ; Aixi Zhang ; Yi Jin ; Sarah Wolf ; Peng Luo ; Zahra Fakhraai; |
| 949 | Combined Description of Polymer PVT and Relaxation Data Using A Dynamic "SL-TS2" Mean-Field Lattice Model Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We develop a combined model to describe the pressure-volume-temperature (PVT) thermodynamics and the α- and β-relaxation time dynamics in glass-forming amorphous materials. |
Valeriy Ginzburg; |
| 950 | In-situ Ellipsometry Characterization of Vapor-deposited Stable Molecular Glasses Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Recent studies [1,2] in physical vapor-deposited (PVD) molecular glasses and liquid-quenched polymers indicate that thin films have higher density than bulk, can access unique … |
Peng Luo ; Sarah Wolf ; Shivajee Govind ; Zahra Fakhraai; |
| 951 | Autonomous Heat Switch With Limit Cycle Behavior Based on A Shape Memory Elastomer Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: A lumped heat transfer model is developed to investigate the optimal parametric conditions for maximum heat transfer efficiency by exploring the associated dimensionless variable space. |
Zhe Liu; |
| 952 | Encryption and Decryption Via Dual-Phase Nematic Elastomer Films Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we use a finite element simulation method to model such a dual-phase material that responds only in selected regions, forming a pattern of blisters buckling out of the plane when exposed to light. |
James Waters ; Anna Balazs; |
| 953 | Programmable Shape Morphing of Liquid Crystal Elastomer Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We propose a new technique to arrange molecular orientations in LCE without using any additive particles. |
Juan Chen; |
| 954 | Constructive Adaptation of Synthetic Polymers in Response to Typically Destructive Environmental Stressors Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we will present our recent efforts in designing synthetic polymer networks capable of turning destructive environmental stressors into constructive factors for strengthening their bulk and interfacial mechanical properties. |
Qiming Wang; |
| 955 | Programmable Shape Morphing of Composite Hydrogels with Tunable Swelling and Deswelling Behaviors Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we take advantage of tunable swelling and deswelling behaviors of the composite hydrogels by the addition of the graphene oxide (GO) that induces changes in their internal structures. |
Minghao Li ; Jinhye Bae; |
| 956 | Spatiotemporally Controlled Shape Reconfiguration in Diels-Alder Polymer Networks Through Selective Dissociation of Crosslinks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Dynamic covalent polymer networks crosslinked via the Diels-Alder (DA) reaction between furan and maleimide can undergo unique solid-state plastic deformation around 60 ~ 80 oC, … |
Qing Zhou ; Svetlana Sukhishvili ; Frank Gardea ; Zhen Sang ; Kartik Kumar Rajagopalan; |
| 957 | Multiphase Direct Ink Writing (MDIW) of Layered Structures for Stimuli-Responsive Behaviors Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This work demonstrated the one-step fabrication of composite multiphase smart materials using the newly developed multiphase direct ink writing (MDIW) 3D printing process. |
Kenan Song; |
| 958 | Reversible and Sequential Self-folding of Nanocomposite Hydrogel/elastomer Layers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We show that the phase segregation of the nanocomposite hydrogels can be induced during crosslinking, leading to different swelling and deswelling kinetics. |
Jiayu Zhao ; Jinhye Bae; |
| 959 | Hydrogel Swelling in Confined Geometries Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In order to better understand what gives rise to these fractures, we simulate the swelling of a hydrogel through a pore using a thermodynamically consistent model that takes into account the transport of water and large deformations of the hydrogel. |
Abigail Plummer ; Caroline Adkins ; Sujit Datta ; Andrej Kosmrlj; |
| 960 | Magnetic and Viscoelastic Properties of Iron Oxide–Poly(ethylene Oxide) Nanocomposites Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Using this model, loading curves were fit and the influence of loading rate on loading response as a function of NP surface chemistry and NP loading was determined. |
Donovan Weiblen ; Grace Gionta ; Deniz Rende ; Vanessa Swepson ; Rahmi Ozisik; |
| 961 | Shapes of Deformable Charge-patterned Nanoparticles Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Using molecular dynamics based simulated annealing, we investigate the shape of deformable nanoparticles for a variety of surface charge patterns including octahedral charged patches, single-charged spherical caps, and oppositely-charged spherical caps. |
Fanbo Sun ; Nicholas Brunk ; Vikram Jadhao; |
| 962 | Mechanical Behavior of Magneto-active Elastic Shells Under An Arbitrary Magnetic Field Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We develop a theoretical model of magneto active hemispherical shells and verify it by comparing with experimental results. |
Myeongryun Seong ; Chaemin Kim ; Anna Lee; |
| 963 | Characterization of A Self-standing and Stress-free Two Way Shape Memory Effect in Semicrystalline Networks Based on Poly(ethylene Glycol)/poly(ε–caprolactone) Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: The two-way shape memory effect (SME) is a peculiar feature of some polymeric materials, among which semicrystalline networks, that allows to obtain reversible shape changes upon … |
Nicoletta Inverardi ; Stefano Pandini ; Maurizio Toselli ; Massimo Messori ; Giulia Scalet ; Ferdinando Auricchio; |
| 964 | The Production of Polymeric Particles Via Nonsolvent-induced Phase Separation Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In our study, we overcome this challenge by using a phase-field model of the NIPS kinetics of polymer droplets that phase separate when brought into contact with a bath of nonsolvent. |
Rami Alhasan ; Tanner Wilcoxson ; Dakota Banks ; Sion Jung ; Douglas Tree; |
| 965 | Stress-induced Surface Segregation of Polymer Melts Under Tension Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this contribution, we report one stress-induced surface segregation phenomena of polymer melts under uniaxial extension. |
Matthew Melton; |
| 966 | A Quantitative Approach to Brownian Motions of Polymers Under Flow Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: A quantitative method is proposed for studying self-correlations of polymers under flow. |
Yangyang Wang ; Zhiqiang Shen ; Jan-Michael Carrillo ; Bobby Sumpter; |
| 967 | A Thermodynamically Inspired Method for Quantifying Phase Transitions in Polymeric Liquids with Application to Flow-Induced Crystallization of A Polyethylene Melt Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Thermodynamic-like local atomistic entropy and enthalpy variables are introduced as a means to delineate and quantify phase transitions in atomistic simulations of extensional … |
Mohammad Hadi Nafar Sefiddashti ; Brian Edwards ; Bamin Khomami; |
| 968 | Traveling Coacervate Band Through A Charged Gel Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we experimentally find a novel coacervation phenomenon where a polyanionic gel is exposed to a solution of polycations. |
Yu-Lin Wang ; Murugappan Muthukumar; |
| 969 | Stochastic Kinetic Theory Applied to Nonequilibrium Polymer Simulations Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we will introduce the application of stochastic kinetic theories to concentrated polymers. |
Patrick Underhill ; Shangren Zhu; |
| 970 | Perylene Dye As A Local Thermal and Mechanical Sensor of Local Nanoscale Polymer Matrices Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We characterize the temperature dependence of the perylene’s emission spectrum doped into a range of different polymers: poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), polystyrene (PS), poly(2-vinyl pyridine) (P2VP), and polycarbonate (PC). |
Yixuan Han ; Connie Roth; |
| 971 | Ab Initio and Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Double-bond Defects in Dipolar Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we apply an accurate DFT method to study ferroelectric polymers by adding DBs as defects into the polymer chains. |
Hancheng Qin ; Bing Zhang ; Xin Chen ; Wenchang Lu ; Qiming Zhang ; Jerry Bernholc; |
| 972 | Contrast-variation Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering for Partial Scattering Functions of Multicomponent Soft Matter Systems Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We propose an analogous quantitative decomposition approach to RSoXS data analysis to isolate and measure the distribution of individual materials within a system by exploiting the energy-dependent scattering length densities (complex indices of refraction) of each component across the soft X-ray energy range. |
Kristof Toth ; Daniel Sunday ; Eliot Gann ; Dean DeLongchamp; |
| 973 | Bottom-up Ultra-coarse-graining of Homopolymers for Inhomogeneous Systems Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We study the coarse-graining of homopolymers into single spherical beads, focusing on simulations of thin polymer films and droplets. |
Fabian Berressem ; Arash Nikoubashman; |
| 974 | Polymeric Structural Symmetry Breaking and Conformational Search Driven By Anisotropic Dispersion Interactions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we focus on how the inclusion of many-body effects [1] in van der Waals dispersion affects the outcome of the geometry optimization and molecular dynamics simulations of model polymers. |
Mario Galante; |
| 975 | The Non-ideal Preparation State of Polymer (model) Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We show that the phantom modulus can be split into two major contributions: the cycle rank of the active network structure and a correction resulting from non-ideal chain conformations at the instance of cross-linking. |
Michael Lang ; Toni Müller; |
| 976 | The Role of Hydrodynamics in Flowing Semidilute Solutions of Ring/linear Polymer Blends Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We developed an iterative conformational-averaging (CA) method for performing these calculations, circumventing computational bottlenecks to enable the large-scale simulation of polymer solutions in flow. |
Charles Sing; |
| 977 | Diffusive Charge Transport in High-valency Redox-active Polymer Solutions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: There has been a recent effort to understand the physics governing charge diffusion in RAPs and we have used simulations and theory to show how a variety of molecular charge transport mechanisms affect diffusive motion in higher valency RAP solutions with explicit salt by employing a full Coulombic potential. |
Liliana Bello Fernandez ; Charles Sing; |
| 978 | Influence of Anion Chemistry on Ion Transport in Single Ion Conducting Polymer Electrolytes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we report results from atomistic molecular dynamics simulations focused on elucidating the influence of different anion chemistries on ionic conductivity in SIC copolymer electrolytes. |
Sanket Kadulkar ; Zach Brotherton ; Nathaniel Lynd ; Thomas Truskett ; Venkatraghavan Ganesan; |
| 979 | Single Sodium-Ion Conducting Polymer Electrolyte Gels with Gyroidal Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Multiblock copolymers containing polar blocks of a sodium sulfonate group and nonpolar polyethylene blocks (precisely 12, 18, or 23 carbons) self-assemble into gyroid morphologies … |
Karen Winey ; Jinseok Park ; Anne Staiger ; Stefan Mecking; |
| 980 | Assessing Effective Medium Theories for Conduction Through Lamellar Grains Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: A numerical finite-difference model was developed for 2D transient diffusion in lamellar structures. |
Omar Taleb; |
| 981 | The Role of Ion Size and Electronic Character in Zwitterionic Electrolytes for Transport of Lithium-Metal Ions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk I will develop design rules for fast ion transport in PZIs investigating the factors of tethered ion size and electronic character. |
Seamus Jones ; Yan-Qiao Chen ; Craig Hawker ; Glenn Fredrickson ; Rachel Segalman; |
| 982 | Impact of Side Chain Chemistry on Lithium Transport in Mixed Ion-Electron Conducting Polymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This work shows that multiple high dielectric moieties can be used to impart ion conduction in semiconducting polymers, but diffuse, cationic side chains such as imidazolium are ideal for lithium conduction. |
Gordon Pace ; Oscar Nordness ; Kareem Asham ; Raphaële Clément ; Rachel Segalman; |
| 983 | Effect of Polymer Topology on Microstructure, Dynamics, Rheology, and Ionic Conductivity in PEO Based Electrolytes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we used poly (ethylene oxide) of various architectures (linear, stars and hyper-branched) and lithium contents to explore the effects of chain topology and molar ratio of the salt on glass transition, crystallization, mechanical properties, and ionic conductivity of PEO based electrolytes. |
Recep Bakar ; Saeid Darvishi ; Erkan Senses; |
| 984 | Phonon Catalysis Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: These methods use the normal modes of a system, which are computed in the harmonic limit, as a basis set for decomposing the heat flow in a system, in a very general way. |
Asegun Henry; |
| 985 | Bridging The Length Scales in Ionic Separations Via Data-driven Science and Machine Learning Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Selective ionic separations is important to wastewater remediation, mineral recovery, and bio-based products produced from organic acids derived from biomass. Central to achieving … |
Christopher Arges ; Mario Ramos-Garcés ; Qi Lei ; Matthew Jordan ; Dodangodage Senadheera ; Ke Li ; Revati Kumar ; Luis Briceno-Mena ; José Romagnoli; |
| 986 | Superionic Li-ion Transport in A Single-Ion Conducting Polymer Blend Electrolyte Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We present polymer blend electrolytes, consisting of a new single Li-ion conducting polymer blended with poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO). |
Benjamin Paren ; Nam Nguyen ; Valerie Ballance ; Daniel Hallinan ; Justin Kennemur ; Karen Winey; |
| 987 | Effect of Thermal Aging on Nanoparticle Structure in Polymer Nanocomposite Electrolytes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this report, we study the effect of thermal aging on the structure of a model nanocomposite electrolyte system–PEO:LiTFSI with 14 nm SiO 2 NPs–using small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS). |
Marshall Tekell ; Georgia Nikolakakou ; Emmanouil Glynos ; Sanat Kumar; |
| 988 | Thermal Transport in Polymers: Intra- Versus Intermolecular Energy Transport Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We devise a simple model that accounts for the fast bonded and slow nonbonded, diffusive energy transport. |
Marcus Mueller ; Louis Pigard ; Jörg Rottler ; Debashish Mukherji; |
| 989 | Tuning Thermal Transport in Epoxy Networks By Bond Engineering Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Using molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate the factors effecting k of epoxy networks. |
Debashish Mukherji; |
| 990 | A Tale of Twisting Columns Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We formulate the hydrodynamics of active columnar phases, with two-dimensional translational order in the plane perpendicular to the columns and no elastic restoring force for relative sliding of the columns. |
Sriram Ramaswamy ; S. Kole ; Ananyo Maitra ; Gareth Alexander; |
| 991 | Surface Roughening and Pulsatility of Self-assembling Microtubule-kinesin Active Foams Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We describe kinetic roughening of these surfaces in terms of local curvature and dilatational flows to quantify their growth. |
Remi Boros ; Bezia Lemma ; Noah Mitchell ; Zvonimir Dogic; |
| 992 | Probing Nano-swimmer Dynamics Via The Motion of Large Tracers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: A simple method is proposed for probing the elusive physical features of nano-swimmers by observing their effect on the motion of much larger, easily traceable particles. |
Ashwani Tripathi ; Tsvi Tlusty; |
| 993 | Dilute Suspensions of Motile Microorganisms Are Not Active Liquid Crystals Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we address the question whether dilute suspensions of motile microorganisms can be adequately described by AGT. |
Viktor Skultety ; Cesare Nardini ; Joakim Stenhammer ; Davide Marenduzzo ; Alexander Morozov; |
| 994 | Rheotaxis of Active Droplets Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We report the first experimental evidence of upstream rheotaxis by spherical active droplets. |
Prateek Dwivedi ; Rahul Mangal; |
| 995 | Functionally Active Membrane Protein Molecules in Mesostructured Silica Films Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Surfactant-directed mesostructured silicas are suitable abiotic host materials for the incorporation of functionally active membrane proteins in transparent and mechanically … |
Bradley Chmelka ; Maxwell Berkow ; Matthew Idso ; Chung-Ta Han ; Khanh Nguyen ; Daniella Lalli ; Guido Pintacuda ; Songi Han; |
| 996 | Instabilities of 3D Dry Active Nematic Liquid Crystal Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we combine a generalized 3D dry active nematic hydrodynamics theory, that is the 3D analog of the Toner-tu model, and numerical simulations of semiflexible active nematic polymers. |
Yingyou Ma ; Aparna Baskaran ; Michael Hagan ; Matthew Peterson; |
| 997 | Computational and Data Driven Active Nematics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we use computational and data-driven techniques to model active nematics. |
Chaitanya Joshi ; Linnea Lemma ; Sattvic Ray ; Link Morgan ; Graham Sharp ; Timothy Atherton ; Zvonimir Dogic ; Aparna Baskaran ; Michael Hagan; |
| 998 | Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Active Liquid Crystals Under Confinement Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we perform lattice Boltzmann simulations of an active nematic liquid crystal in a two dimensional cavity with a moving lid. |
Saloni Saxena ; Thomas Powers ; Robert Pelcovits; |
| 999 | Hamiltonian Structure of 2D Fluid Dynamics with Broken Parity Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, I will discuss conditions on transport coefficients that correspond to dissipationless and separately to Hamiltonian fluid dynamics. |
Sriram Ganeshan ; Gustavo Monteiro ; Alexander Abanov; |
| 1000 | Modified Darcy’s Law for Parity Odd Three-dimensional Fluids Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we derive a modification to Darcy’s Law due to a longitudinal component of the three-dimensional parity-odd viscosity tensor, dubbed ‘longitudinal odd viscosity’, and show that for incompressible fluids this is the only modification that is possible within the Hele-Shaw geometry. |
Dylan Reynolds; |
| 1001 | Nonreciprocal Phase Separation in Living Chiral Crystal Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we investigate the phase diagram of living chiral crystals formed by embryos from different developmental stages. |
Junang Li ; Nikta Fakhri; |
| 1002 | Orientational Correlations of Active Defects in Flat and Curved Space Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We experimentally study the dynamics of microtubule-kinesin active nematics constrained to both flat 2D space and toroidal surfaces and inquire whether the defects develop any form of order. |
Jyothishraj Nambisan ; Daniel Pearce ; Perry Ellis ; Luca Giomi ; Alberto Fernandez-Nieves; |
| 1003 | Developing A Constitutive Model for Knitted Fabrics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: These studies also allow us to identify the properties that have the largest effects on the mechanics and develop a constitutive model to link yarn and fabric elasticity. |
Sarah Gonzalez ; Michael Dimitriyev ; Krishma Singal ; Elisabetta Matsumoto; |
| 1004 | Topological Mechanics of Living Worm Blobs Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we will develop a topological framework to understand the slow formation and fast separation of active tangles, combining elastic fiber simulations with a low-dimensional tangle representation. |
Vishal Patil ; Harry Tuazon ; Tuhin Chakrabortty ; Jorn Dunkel ; Saad Bhamla; |
| 1005 | Laddering Propagation in Weft Knit Fabrics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We use weft knit fabrics every day, as their stretchiness makes them ideal for clothes that are easy to put on and can conform to our bodies. |
Helen Read ; Kausalya Mahadevan ; Katia Bertoldi; |
| 1006 | Statistical Knitting and The Resulting Macroscopic Emergent Behavior Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We systematically study the mechanics of disordered, uncorrelated arrangements of knits and purls and gradually introduce correlations. |
Krishma Singal ; Michael Dimitriyev ; Elisabetta Matsumoto; |
| 1007 | The Mechanical Response of Periodic and Aperiodic Multistable Knit Architectures Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We harness this existing symmetry in a knit stitch and a periodic pattern to manipulate the natural curvature of the material into a self-folding pattern which exhibits multiple stable configurations. |
Kausalya Mahadevan ; Vanessa Sanchez ; Katia Bertoldi; |
| 1008 | Inverse Design of Mechanical Responses in Programmable Knitted Fabrics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In order to optimize the behavior of knitted fabrics, we develop a yarn-level mechanical simulation framework to study the structure–response relationship on the representative unit of all basic knitted structures. |
Xiaoxiao Ding ; Christopher Rycroft; |
| 1009 | Nonwoven Textile Structures – Commodity Pathways to Auxeticity Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our research has examined nonwoven fabrics and paper from this viewpoint and found that an out-of-plane auxetic response can be readily realized in fiber networks. |
Prateek Verma ; Anselm Griffin ; Meisha Shofner; |
| 1010 | Tying Knots in Smectic Liquid Crystals Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We show that, because smectics do not necessarily have a consistent orientation from layer to layer, smectics are distinct from circle-valued functions, and sometimes require fewer critical points. |
Daria Atkinson ; Randall Kamien; |
| 1011 | Mechanics of Wet Fibrous Bundles Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we use suspensions of flexible high aspect ratio hydrogel fibres, with radii ranging from tens to hundreds of microns, with a precise control over the characteristics of the fibres. |
Camille Duprat ; Janine Nunes ; Zehao Pan ; Howard Stone; |
| 1012 | Fracture and Tensile Strength of Aggregates of Frictional Flexible Fibers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we aim to rationalize the cohesive strength of a disordered assembly of flexible frictional fibers. |
Ignacio Andrade-Silva ; Olivier Pouliquen ; Joel Marthelot; |
| 1013 | A Soft Gripper with Embedded Soft Sensors for Extremely Flexible Objects Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we present a pneumatically actuated soft gripper that overcomes the aforementioned drawbacks through utilizing the buckling of an elastic membrane to effectively handle flexible sheets such as textiles. |
Uhsang Ahn ; Changho Yun ; Subyeong Ku ; Yong-Lae Park ; Ho-Young Kim; |
| 1014 | On The Topological Linkage of Finite, Entangled, Spatial Graphs in Three-dimensions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Therefore, in this study we suggest a method to analyze the effective intertwinedness of any finite, amorphous, 2-component nets by characterization of their respective cycle spaces. |
Felix Kramer ; Carl Modes; |
| 1015 | Finding The Homogenous-nucleation "needle" in The Polymer-foam "haystack" Using Theory As Our Guide Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Estimates of the nucleation barrier using the string method with DFT suggested homogeneous nucleation of CO 2 in polyol could occur in industrial high-pressure foaming and in our microfluidic focusing apparatus, e.g., for 25-30%w/w CO 2 (equilibrium pressure ca. 7 MPa) upon quenching to a pressure of ca. 1 MPa. |
Julie Kornfield ; Andrew Ylitalo ; Huikuan Chao ; Ernesto Di Maio ; Thomas Fitzgibbons ; Valeriy Ginzburg ; Weijun Zhou ; Richard Flagan ; Zhen-Gang Wang; |
| 1016 | Retrograde Vitrification Equation of State for Polymeric Foaming Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The Sanchez-Lacombe equation of state suffers from inconsistencies however, and I will discuss what these are and what can be done about them using an off-lattice approach. |
Russell Thompson ; Chul Park ; Kier von Konigslow ; Hassan Alam; |
| 1017 | What Is in That Film? Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, a practical approach is presented. |
Yihan Liu; |
| 1018 | Polymer Foams for Building Insulation (STYROFOAM and Beyond) Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Thermoplastic foams have been used in buildings for over 75 years, since the initial introduction of STYROFOAM™ extruded polystyrene foam. Significant progress has been made to … |
Stephane Costeux; |
| 1019 | Bubble Nucleation in Polymer–CO2 Mixtures Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Using a PC-SAFT (perturbed-chain statistical associating fluid theory) based density functional theory (DFT) in combination with the string method, we investigate bubble nucleation in CO 2-supersaturated polymers in both binary and ternary systems. |
Zhen-Gang Wang; |
| 1020 | Glass Forming Ability of Polyzwitterions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: The glass forming ability of a series of specially synthesized polyzwitterions was studied using fast scanning calorimetry (FSC). Polyzwitterions include those based on the … |
Peggy Cebe ; Andrew Clark ; Yajnaseni Biswas ; Morgan Taylor ; Ayse Asatekin ; Matthew Panzer ; Christoph Schick; |
| 1021 | Illuminating The Rigid Amorphous Fraction of Semiconducting Polymers, and Its Pivotal Influence on Optoelectronic and Mechanical Performance Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The contribution of RAF to the thermal expansion was observed to be 20% for P3HT and 75% for the remaining high-performance polymers. |
Luke Galuska ; Dung Tran ; Gage Mason ; Simon Gagne ; Jianguo Mei ; Xiaodan Gu; |
| 1022 | Characterization of The Interfacial Orientation and Molecular Conformation in A Glass-forming Organic Semiconductor Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we use polarized resonant soft X-ray reflectivity to measure nanometer-resolved molecular orientation depth profiles of vapor-deposited thin films of an organic semiconductor, TCTA. |
Thomas Ferron ; Jacob Thelen ; Kushal Bagchi ; Chuting Deng ; Eliot Gann ; Juan De Pablo ; Mark Ediger ; Daniel Sunday ; Dean DeLongchamp; |
| 1023 | Polarized Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering Reveals Interfacial Molecular Orientation in Phase-separated Vapor-deposited Glass Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We use p-RSoXS to measure a glass prepared by co-vapor depositing two immiscible glass-forming molecules. |
Camille Bishop ; Thomas Ferron ; Marie Fiori ; Mark Ediger ; Dean DeLongchamp; |
| 1024 | Theory of Aging in Soft Viscoelastic Glasses Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we present a theory of aging for viscoelastic glasses that examines the nonequilibrium, protocol-dependent properties of the system. |
Andrei Gasic ; Peter Wolynes; |
| 1025 | A New Thin Film Scanning Calorimeter to Measure High-T Thermodynamics in Amorphous Ge-Te Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: A new thin-film calorimeter design suitable for measuring thin films on the heating curve of the glass transition using ultra-rapid differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) is … |
Christopher Madsen ; Manel Molina-Ruiz ; Thomas Dauer ; Donez Horton-Bailey ; Frances Hellman; |
| 1026 | Exploring The Energy Landscapes of Soft Glassy Systems Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we present an algorithm to sample the energy landscape and probe low-energy inherent structures(IS) of the conventionally studied Kob-Anderson(KA) glass. |
Amruthesh Thirumalaiswamy ; Robert Riggleman ; John Crocker; |
| 1027 | The Fragile-to-Strong Crossover in Simulated Supercooled Water Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We utilize molecular dynamics simulations to investigate how the fragile-to-strong crossover alters the nature of collective molecular rearrangements in water. |
Hongjia Zhang ; Chloe Thorburn ; Stephen Murray ; Francis Starr; |
| 1028 | Glassy Behavior of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: To this end, we combine extensive Molecular Dynamics simulations (using realistic force fields recently tuned with experiments), with large-scale temperature replica-exchange MD simulations, to access the equilibrium dynamics. |
Juan Neftalí Morillo García ; Beatriz Seoane Bartolome; |
| 1029 | Single-parameter Aging in Molecular Glasses Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In a series of papers we have shown how physical aging can be described by a single-parameter scenario through precise measurements and careful temperature protocols. |
Tina Hecksher; |
| 1030 | Glassy Dynamics and Electrical Conductivity of Ionic Liquid Crystals: Dependence of The Cation N-alkyl Side Chain Length Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We investigate the molecular dynamics of a homologous series of linear-shaped guanidinium based ionic liquid crystals (ILCs) that vary in alkyl chain length, R = 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, by employing broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS), Fast Scanning Calorimetry (FSC), and temperature modulated FSC (TMFSC). |
Mohamed Kolmangadi ; Andreas Schoenhals; |
| 1031 | Measuring Slow Relaxation and Stability in Vapor Deposited Stable Polymer Glasses Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We explore here the physical aging behavior of stable vapor deposited, aged, and rejuvenated polymer glasses (N>9 and a T g = 308 K). |
Michael Thees ; Junjie Yin ; James Forrest; |
| 1032 | Generation of Pure Circularly Polarized Light Using Cholesteric Glassy Liquid Crystal (Ch-GLC) Films Doped with Dichroic Dyes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: A rich framework is identified for unravelling the effects on the transmission / reflection ratio by the Ch-GLC film thickness, the dichroic dye concentration, and spectral separation between the host film’s stopband and the dye’s absorption spectrum. |
Mattias Hartveit ; Benjamin Carlson ; Mitchell Anthamatten ; Shaw Chen; |
| 1033 | An Introduction to Mechanophores: Utilizing Mechano-Responsive Molecules for Stress Visualization Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: This talk will introduce MPs to a broad audience and then share some of our recent work in the calibration and implementation of these molecular damage sensors in a variety of polymeric systems. |
Chelsea Davis; |
| 1034 | Simulations of Failure in Mechanically Active Triblock Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: By measuring activation and chain conformations, we aim to determine the mechanophore activation and materials response to different microscopic failure mechanisms. |
Stephen Skala ; Zijian Huo ; Jennifer Laaser ; Antonia Statt; |
| 1035 | Computational Design of Bottlebrushes of PNIPAM-Dextran Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In the present study, we have performed coarse-grained (CG) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of bottlebrush polymers (BBPs) of dextran and poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) copolymers. |
Sanket Deshmukh ; Soumil Joshi ; Parisa Farzeen; |
| 1036 | Dynamics of Stable Contact Formation Bewteen A Nanoparticle and A Highly Repulsive Polymer Layer Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We use molecular dynamics simulations to study the assembly and dynamics of nanoparticles in a grafted polymer layer in the presence of a favorable solvent. |
Sai Etha; |
| 1037 | The Effect of Morphology on Mechanical Activation in Nanostructured Triblock Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we investigate the effect of polymer morphology on mechanochemical activation in nanostructured triblock copolymers. |
Zijian Huo; |
| 1038 | Temperature Dependent Photoisomerization Kinetics of Semicrystalline Poly(azobenzene)s Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have studied the temperature-dependent kinetics of photoisomerization in poly(azobenzenes) with both alkyl and ethylene glycol chain extenders. |
Hantao Zhou ; Ryan Hayward; |
| 1039 | Understanding Shape Manipulation of Polymer Vesicles: A Reactive Dissipative Particle Dynamics Study Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Accordingly, we have developed a custom reaction-diffusion model that combines Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) and the Split Reactive Brownian Dynamics (SRBD) that can model the dynamic self-assembling of polymers as they undergo chemical reactions, which expands the capability of simulating the non-equilibrium stochastic behavior of polymer solutions on mesoscopic scales. |
Qinyu Zhu ; Douglas Tree; |
| 1040 | Light-Responsive, Reversibly Shape-Changing Block Copolymer Particles Using Photo-Switchable Au Nanoparticle Surfactants Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We designed the azobenzene-grafted Au (Au@Azo) nanoparticles as photo-switchable surfactants through photoisomerization of Azo ligands. |
Seung Ho Kwon ; Meng Xu ; Jinwoo Kim ; Eun Ji Kim ; Young Jun Lee ; Se Gyu Jang ; Hongseok Yun ; Bumjoon Kim; |
| 1041 | Micellar Structures of Chain End Functionalized Oligo(dimethyl Siloxane) Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: 1,2 In this contribution, we report micellar structures of ODMS functionalized with different charged groups in solutions. |
Kunlun Hong ; Tianyu Li ; Yingdong Luo; |
| 1042 | Application of Raman Spectroscopy to Determine The Α Phase Crystalline Fraction in Poly(vinylidene Fluoride) Films Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, the degree of crystallinity of α-PVDF determined by Raman spectroscopy is presented and compared to the crystalline fraction found both from thermal analysis of endotherm area and from wide-angle X-ray scattering. |
Anuja Jayasekara ; Peggy Cebe; |
| 1043 | Rheological Investigation of Partially Crystallized Polymer Melts Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we explore the relationships between short-chain branching (SCB), crystallite/amorphous domain arrangement, and rheology of partially crystallized polymers. |
Marat Andreev ; Gregory Rutledge ; Anthony Kotula ; Jaap den Doelder ; Jonathan Moore; |
| 1044 | Nanoscale Technologies to Study Life Sciences – from Neurochemical Imaging to Agricultural Biotechnology Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We describe how nanomaterials engineering principles can be leveraged to genetically manipulate living plants, without transgene integration, in efforts to reconcile the benefits of crop genetic engineering with genome editing tools. |
Markita Landry; |
| 1045 | Efficient Removal of Microcystin Toxins in Contaminated Fresh Water By Biocompatible Polymer Complex Coacervates Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we demonstrate the exploration of spontaneous liquid-liquid separating polymer coacervation of biocompatible polyethylene oxide (PEO) and polyacrylic acid (PAA) via hydrogen bonding to rapidly and effectively remove MC-LR and other congeners from aqueous solutions. |
Manuela Ferreira ; Yingxi Elaine Zhu; |
| 1046 | A Comparison of Experimental Bacterial Genome Mapping Data with Results from Simulation Using A Coarse-grained DsDNA Construct Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We design in silico an experimental dual nanopore setup that mimics the original experiment performed by Nooma Bio Inc., to obtain insights into dynamics and conformation of the captured dsDNA at sub-nanometer length scales. |
Swarnadeep Seth ; Arthur Rand ; Walter Reisner ; Robert Sladek ; William Dunbar ; Aniket Bhattacharya; |
| 1047 | Electron Transport Kinetics for Viologen Containing Polypeptides with Varying Side Group Linker Spacing Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, the electron transfer and performance of three viologen-based RAPs with varying linker spacing is considered using both computational and experimental methods. |
Alexandra Easley ; Cheng-Han Li ; Tan Nguyen ; Shih-Guo Li ; Miao Qi ; Karen Wooley ; Daniel Tabor ; Jodie Lutkenhaus; |
| 1048 | Single-sequence Protein Structure Prediction Using Language Models and Deep Learning Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: I will describe the development of an end-to-end differentiable recurrent geometric network that uses a protein language model (AminoBERT) to learn latent structural information from unaligned proteins and a geometric module that compactly represents C α backbone geometry in terms of Frenet-Serret formulas. |
Nazim Bouatta; |
| 1049 | Probing Preferred Orientation in Cellulosic Materials: Nanocrystals, Wood, and Beyond Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We demonstrate how to use different scattering techniques, including small- and wide-angle neutron and X-ray scattering, to understand preferred orientation of cellulosic materials at multiple length scales. |
Yimin Mao ; Xin Zhang ; Robert Briber; |
| 1050 | Associating Polymer Features of Native Cellulose in Ionic Liquid Solutions Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here we address the associating polymer features exhibited by native cellulose in solutions with varying IL, in both linear and nonlinear viscoelastic regimes. |
Ralph Colby ; Daniele Parisi ; Nyalaliska Utomo ; Ravisara Wattana ; Joshua Bostwick; |
| 1051 | Salt Effect on The Liquid-liquid Phase Separation of Charged Macromolecules Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we developed a theory to study the salt effect on the LLPS of charged macromolecules. |
Chao Duan ; Rui Wang; |
| 1052 | Counterion Entropy Impacts on Bulk Phase Behavior in Ether-Based Charge-Neutral Block Copolymers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we use an ether-based platform to compare the effects on phase behavior and dielectric response between two charged species: one where the counterion is mobile, and the other bound as a zwitterion. |
Bradley Grim ; Matthew Green; |
| 1053 | Self-Assembly of Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Block Copolymers Under Dissipative Solvent Vapor Annealing Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We use Polystyrene-b-poly(2-vinylpyridine) to study how the oscillating manner of the mixture solvent vapors will prevent the system from reaching equilibrium state. |
Xiao Li; |
| 1054 | “Polymer Design in The Era of Machine Learning” Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this presentation I will discuss these ideas by relying on three examples taken from our own research. |
Juan De Pablo; |
| 1055 | Preparation of Natural Spider Silk Nanofibrils By Assembling Molecules or Disassembling Fibers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we disassembled spider silk fibers by mechanical force and showed that it is completely composed of ≈10 nm nanofibrils aligned in the fiber direction. |
Dinidu Perera ; Hannes Schniepp ; Linxuan Li ; Qijue Wang ; Chloe Walsh; |
| 1056 | Characterizing The Lithium Ion Coordination in Ionic Liquid Mixtures and Polymer Electrolytes: A Molecular Dynamics Study Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we develop and import a predictive model for IL electrolytes consisting of Li+, [EMIM+], and [TFSI-], and their mixture with a set of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)-based polymers in molecular dynamics simulation. |
Kyeong-Jun Jeong ; Chang Yun Son; |
| 1057 | Molecular View of The Plasticization Process of Poly(vinyl) Alcohol Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this work, we will follow the analysis of the free energies governing the interactions of complex systems by employing the Artificial Neural Network sampling method developed by Hythem and Whitmer (JCP 2018). |
Ernesto Carlos Cortes Morales ; Jonathan Whitmer ; Vikramjit Rathee ; Ahmad Ghobadi; |
| 1058 | Validation and Refinement of Unified Analytic Model for Flexible, Semiflexible and Stiff Polymer Melt Entanglement Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this talk, we stress-test these expressions by checking whether they remain valid when a different topological analysis (TA) method and different Ne-estimators are employed, and by comparing them to the available experimental data on flexible, semiflexible and stiff polymer melts. |
Robert Hoy ; Joseph Fox Dietz ; Martin Kröger; |
| 1059 | Segmental Dynamics of Normal and Pre-oriented PMMA Glasses in The Strain-hardening Regime Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Little is known about the segmental dynamics during strain hardening, and such data is important for building a molecular-level theory of this process. |
Enran Xing ; Trevor Bennin ; Mark Ediger; |
| 1060 | Role of Solvent in Enhancement of Thermal Conductivity of Epoxy/graphene Nanocomposites Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In this study, we compare the effect of two organic solvents (dimethylformamide (DMF) and acetone) in terms of their efficiency in dispersing graphene into the epoxy matrix and their effect on enhancing thermal conductivity of the composite. |
Swapneel Danayat; |
| 1061 | Role of Water Molecules on Vehicular Transport Mechanism in Polynorbornene-based Anion Exchange Membranes Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Here, we investigated polynorbornene-based AEMs as our model polymers due to their high alkaline stabilities and outstanding fuel cell performance. |
Ge Sun ; Zhongyang Wang ; Chuting Deng ; Shrayesh Patel ; Paul Nealey ; Juan De Pablo; |
| 1062 | Effect of Permanent Crosslinks and Temperatures on Network Relaxation and Penetrant Diffusion in Tight Polymer Networks Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We performed Molecular Dynamics simulation of dilute penetrant diffusion in dense polymer networks with varying crosslink density. |
Tsai-Wei Lin ; Charles Sing; |
| 1063 | Effect of Morphology and Segmental Dynamics on Ion Transport in Polymerized Lyotropic Liquid Crystals Containing Ionic Liquid Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We investigate how the morphology and segmental dynamics affect the ion transport in polymerized lyotropic liquid crystals (polyLLCs) containing 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ionic liquid (IL). |
Kyungtae Kim ; Alireza Bandegi ; Reza Foudazi; |
| 1064 | Free Volume Enhances Catalyst Diffusion in Reactive Polymer Resins Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We examine the validity of this mechanism in a model polymer using experiments and atomistic simulations. |
Christopher Bottoms ; Gila Stein ; Emmanouil Doxastakis; |
| 1065 | Diffusion of Water in Aqueous Poly(ethylene Oxide) at Molecular to Macroscopic Length Scales Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We find that the bulk water diffusion coefficient scales with PEO concentration as described by a free volume model that accounts for interstitial space. |
Thomas Webber ; Joshua Moon ; Dennis Robinson Brown ; Thomas Casey ; Pete Richardson ; Rachel Segalman ; M. Shell ; Songi Han; |
| 1066 | Roles of Mesh Size, Segmental Dynamic, Glass Transition Temperature, and Molecular Structure on Penetrant Diffusion in Dense Vitrimers Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: We have systematically investigated how dynamic crosslinks can facilitate the transport of polyaromatic dye in the n-butyl acrylate networks. |
Junrou Huang ; Grant Sheridan ; Paul Braun ; Christopher Evans; |
| 1067 | Accessing Low Energies in Glasses with Large Free Interface Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Subsequently, by characterizing the enthalpy evolution during physical aging, I will show that mild enhancement of the free interfacial area may result in massive decrease of the glass energy toward the equilibrium liquid line. |
Daniele Cangialosi; |
| 1068 | Revealing The Nature of Long-range Interfacial Effect on Polymer Dynamics Under Confinement Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: In our investigations, we considered the essential role of formation of an irreversible adsorption layer with sluggish molecular dynamics atop the substrate surface. |
Biao Zuo; |
| 1069 | Multifaceted Role of Bound Chains in Reinforcement of Polymer Nanocomposites – Structural and Dynamical Analysis Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: The details will be discussed in the presentation. |
Tad Koga; |
| 1070 | Exchange Lifetimes of The Bound Polymer Layer on Silica Nanoparticles Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: Decades of research have emphasized the importance of a bound layer i.e. a thin layer of immobilized polymer adsorbed on the surface of a nanoparticle, as an important factor in … |
Mayank Jhalaria; |
| 1071 | How Fundamental Material Properties Influence Interfacial Effects on Polymer Dynamics Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Highlight: Our initial work focused on bulk samples which allowed for substantive model testing. |
Jane Lipson; |
| 1072 | Magnetic Nanoparticle Clusters Delivering Antibiotics to E Coli. Through High Viscous Non-Newtonian Fluid Using A Magnetic Field Related Papers Related Patents Related Grants Related Orgs Related Experts Details Abstract: The purpose of this experiment is to expand the biomedical applications of magnetic particles and antibiotics, through the oscillating of magnetic particle clusters through high … |
River Gassen; |