Entropic Effects in Polymer Nanocomposites

Tailoring Interfacial Nanoparticle Organization through Entropy

(2018) Guolong Zhu et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Self-assembled materials and supramolecular chemistry within microfluidic environments: from common thermodynamic states to non-equilibrium structures

(2018) S. Sevim et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Hierarchy of Relaxation Times and Residual Entropy: A Nonequilibrium Approach

(2018) Purushottam Gujrati   Entropy

How Implementation of Entropy in Driving Structural Ordering of Nanoparticles Relates to Assembly Kinetics: Insight through Reaction-Induced Interfacial Assembly of Janus Nanoparticles

(2018) Ye Yang et al.   LANGMUIR

Trajectory reweighting for non-equilibrium steady states

(2018) Patrick B. Warren et al.   MOLECULAR PHYSICS

Hierarchical Crystals Formed from DNA-Functionalized Janus Nanoparticles

(2018) Guolong Zhu et al.   ACS Nano

Segmentation and the Entropic Elasticity of Modular Proteins

(2018) Ronen Berkovich et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Large scale hybrid Monte Carlo simulations for structure and property prediction

(2018) Sergei Prokhorenko et al.   npj Computational Materials

Effect of Nanofiller Geometry on Network Formation in Polymeric Nanocomposites: Comparison of Rheological and Electrical Properties of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube and Graphene Nanoribbon

(2017) Soheil Sadeghi et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Polymerization-Induced Interfacial Self-Assembly of Janus Nanoparticles in Block Copolymers: Reaction-Mediated Entropy Effects, Diffusion Dynamics, and Tailorable Micromechanical Behaviors

(2017) Pengyu Chen et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Length controlled kinetics of self-assembly of bidisperse nanotubes/nanorods in polymers

(2017) Ali Gooneie et al.   POLYMER

Reinforced local heterogeneities in interfacial tension distribution in polymer blends by incorporating carbon nanotubes

(2017) Ali Gooneie et al.   POLYMER

Experimental soft-matter science

(2017) Sidney R. Nagel   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Optimal Reactivity and Improved Self-Healing Capability of Structurally Dynamic Polymers Grafted on Janus Nanoparticles Governed by Chain Stiffness and Spatial Organization

(2017) Guoxi Xu et al.   Small

Assessing numerical methods for molecular and particle simulation

(2017) Xiaocheng Shang et al.   Soft Matter

Shape and Symmetry Determine Two-Dimensional Melting Transitions of Hard Regular Polygons

(2017) Joshua A. Anderson et al.   Physical Review X

A Review of Multiscale Computational Methods in Polymeric Materials

(2017) Ali Gooneie et al.   Polymers

Carbon Nanotube/Graphene Nanoribbon/Polyvinylidene Fluoride Hybrid Nanocomposites: Rheological and Dielectric Properties

(2016) Mohammad Arjmand et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Chain stiffness regulates entropy-templated perfect mixing at single-nanoparticle level

(2016) Zihan Huang et al.   Nanoscale

Exploring the zone of anisotropy and broken symmetries in DNA-mediated nanoparticle crystallization

(2016) Matthew N. O’Brien et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Atomistic Modelling of Confined Polypropylene Chains between Ferric Oxide Substrates at Melt Temperature

(2016) Ali Gooneie et al.   Polymers

Particle shape effects in colloidal crystals and colloidal liquid crystals: Small-angle X-ray scattering studies with microradian resolution

(2015) Andrei V. Petukhov et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN COLLOID & INTERFACE SCIENCE

Molecular Structure and Work of Adhesion of Poly(n-butyl acrylate) and Poly(n-butyl acrylate-co-acrylic acid) on α-Quartz, α-Ferric Oxide, and α-Ferrite from Detailed Molecular Dynamics Simulations

(2015) Alexandros Anastassiou et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Chain-Stiffness-Induced Entropy Effects Mediate Interfacial Assembly of Janus Nanoparticles in Block Copolymers: From Interfacial Nanostructures to Optical Responses

(2015) Bojun Dong et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Entropy-Driven Crystallization Behavior in DNA-Mediated Nanoparticle Assembly

(2015) Ryan V. Thaner et al.   NANO LETTERS

Order through entropy

(2015) Daan Frenkel   NATURE MATERIALS

Block copolymer–nanoparticle composites: Structure, functional properties, and processing

(2015) Biswajit Sarkar et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Block copolymer-nanoparticle hybrid self-assembly

(2015) Tobias N. Hoheisel et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Coassembly of Janus Nanoparticles in Asymmetric Diblock Copolymer Scaffolds: Unconventional Entropy Effect and Role of Interfacial Topology

(2014) Bojun Dong et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Nanoparticle Organization in Sandwiched Polymer Brushes

(2014) Tine Curk et al.   NANO LETTERS

Entropy-Mediated Mechanical Response of the Interfacial Nanoparticle Patterning

(2014) Zhengyang Liu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Re-entrant solidification in polymer–colloid mixtures as a consequence of competing entropic and enthalpic attractions

(2014) Lang Feng et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Understanding shape entropy through local dense packing

(2014) Greg van Anders et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Engineering entropy in soft matter: the bad, the ugly and the good

(2014) Fernando A. Escobedo   Soft Matter

Polymer-Induced Inverse-Temperature Crystallization of Nanoparticles on a Substrate

(2013) Xue-Zheng Cao et al.   ACS Nano

Entropically Patchy Particles: Engineering Valence through Shape Entropy

(2013) Greg van Anders et al.   ACS Nano

Entropy favours open colloidal lattices

(2013) Xiaoming Mao et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Stabilizing Liquid Drops in Nonequilibrium Shapes by the Interfacial Jamming of Nanoparticles

(2013) M. Cui et al.   SCIENCE

Theory of two-dimensional self-assembly of Janus colloids: crystallization and orientational ordering

(2013) Homin Shin et al.   Soft Matter

Temperature as an external field for colloid–polymer mixtures: ‘quenching’ by heating and ‘melting’ by cooling

(2012) Shelley L Taylor et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Advances in top–down and bottom–up surface nanofabrication: Techniques, applications & future prospects

(2011) Abhijit Biswas et al.   ADVANCES IN COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

Theoretical perspective on the glass transition and amorphous materials

(2011) Ludovic Berthier et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Multifunctional Shape-Memory Polymers

(2010) Marc Behl et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Controllable nanostructural transitions in grafted nanoparticle-block copolymer composites

(2010) Guang-Kui Xu et al.   Nano Research

Mono- or bidisperse nanorods mixtures in diblock copolymers

(2010) Linli He et al.   POLYMER

Mean-field theory of hard sphere glasses and jamming

(2010) Giorgio Parisi et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Nanoinclusions in polymer brushes with explicit solvent – A molecular dynamics investigation

(2009) J. Yaneva et al.   JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

Anisotropic self-assembly of spherical polymer-grafted nanoparticles

(2009) Pinar Akcora et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Small-molecule-directed nanoparticle assembly towards stimuli-responsive nanocomposites

(2009) Yue Zhao et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Nanoscale Forces and Their Uses in Self-Assembly

(2009) Kyle J. M. Bishop et al.   Small

Theories and simulations of polymer-based nanocomposites: From chain statistics to reinforcement

(2008) Giuseppe Allegra et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Multiscale modeling and simulation of polymer nanocomposites

(2007) Q.H. Zeng et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE