The self-assembly behavior of polymer brushes induced by the orientational ordering of rod backbones: a dissipative particle dynamics study

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 5229-5241
Author(s):  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Jianchang Xu ◽  
Liyang Wen ◽  
Fusheng Zhang ◽  
Lijuan Zhang

This work proposed the “rod–coil competitive mechanism” for the self-assembly of polymer brushes with rod–coil backbones.

RSC Advances ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (47) ◽  
pp. 26461-26468
Author(s):  
Taiga Seki ◽  
Noriyoshi Arai ◽  
Donguk Suh ◽  
Taku Ozawa ◽  
Tomoko Shimada ◽  
...  

Vapor pressure osmometry measurements and molecular simulation were carried out to investigate the self-assembly behavior of peptide amphiphiles. The results revealed that the head–water interaction plays an important role for their microstructure.


2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (45) ◽  
pp. 25148-25157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanlong Li ◽  
Ke Li ◽  
Qingsong Xu ◽  
Yuling Wang ◽  
Chunyang Yu ◽  
...  

The self-assembly behaviors of rod-alt-coil alternating copolymers were systematically investigated by employing dissipative particle dynamics simulations.


2005 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 180-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. G. Schulz ◽  
U. Frieske ◽  
H. Kuhn ◽  
G. Schmid ◽  
F. Müller ◽  
...  

Soft Matter ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (36) ◽  
pp. 6178-6188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haina Tan ◽  
Chunyang Yu ◽  
Zhongyuan Lu ◽  
Yongfeng Zhou ◽  
Deyue Yan

This work discloses for the first time the self-assembly phase diagrams of amphiphilic hyperbranched multiarm copolymers in various solvents by dissipative particle dynamics simulations.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 921-928 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiawei Li ◽  
Junfeng Wang ◽  
Qiang Yao ◽  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Youguo Yan ◽  
...  

ABA triblock copolymers have been demonstrated to be able to produce a biphasic effect on the self-assembly of surfactants.


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (39) ◽  
pp. 22662-22673
Author(s):  
Abeer Khedr ◽  
Alberto Striolo

In this work, using dissipative particle dynamics simulations, we provide fundamental insights into the self-assembly of nanoparticles (NPs) on oil droplet surfaces.


Soft Matter ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (26) ◽  
pp. 6056-6062 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianggui Ye ◽  
Bamin Khomami

Large-scale dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations have been performed to investigate the self-assembly of over 20 000 linear diblock copolymer chains in a selective solvent.


Soft Matter ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (43) ◽  
pp. 8460-8470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haina Tan ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Chunyang Yu ◽  
Yongfeng Zhou ◽  
Zhongyuan Lu ◽  
...  

This work demonstrates the effect of degree of branching on the self-assembly of amphiphilic hyperbranched polymers by dissipative particle dynamics simulations.


2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (47) ◽  
pp. 31830-31838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Xu ◽  
Hong Liu ◽  
Yao-Hong Xue ◽  
Yan-Bo Sun

Dissipative particle dynamics simulations are employed to study the self-assembly of block copolymers on a template modified with ordered posts.


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