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Gluing Interfaces with Soft Nanoparticles

May 24, 2019

Ryan Sayko, Zhen Cao, Heyi Liang, and Andrey V. Dobrynin Nanoparticles have been recently shown to be able to act as effective adhesives capable of binding two soft materials together. We performed coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations to study contact mechanics … Read more

Comb and Bottlebrush Graft Copolymers in a Melt

May 16, 2019

Heyi Liang, Zilu Wang, Sergei S. Sheiko, and Andrey V. Dobrynin We have studied properties of comb-like and bottlebrush-like graft copolymers made of chemically different backbones and side chains in a melt. A diagram of states for this class of … Read more

Strained Bottlebrushes in Super-Soft Physical Networks

April 23, 2019

Charles Clair, Abdelaziz Lallam, Martin Rosenthal, Michael Sztucki, Mohammad Vatankhah-Varnosfaderani, Andrew N. Keith, Yidan Cong, Heyi Liang, Andrey V. Dobrynin, Sergei S. Sheiko, and Dimitri A. Ivanov ABA triblock copolymers composed of a poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) bottlebrush central block and linear … Read more