Smart Polymers for Soft Materials: From Solution Processing to Organic Solids

Dual Thermo- and pH-Responsive Block Copolymer of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-block-Poly(N,N-diethylamino Ethyl Acrylamide): Synthesis, Characterization, Phase Transition, and Self-Assembly Behavior in Aqueous Solution

(2023) Fang Yin et al.   Macromolecules

Towards next generation polymer surfaces: Nano- and microlayers of star macromolecules and their design for applications in biology and medicine

(2023) Barbara Mendrek et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Molecular Dynamics Modeling of Thermal Conductivity of Several Hydrocarbon Base Oils

(2023) Jannat Ahmed et al.   TRIBOLOGY LETTERS

Stabilizing α-Helicity of a Polypeptide in Aqueous Urea: Dipole Orientation or Hydrogen Bonding?

(2023) Luis A. Baptista et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Free Standing Dry and Stable Nanoporous Polymer Films Made through Mechanical Deformation

(2023) Hsiao‐Ping Hsu et al.   Advanced Science

Connecting density fluctuations and Kirkwood–Buff integrals for finite-size systems

(2022) Mauricio Sevilla et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Heterogeneity in Protein Folding and Unfolding Reactions

(2022) Sandhya Bhatia et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Mixing Thermodynamics and Flory–Huggins Interaction Parameter of Polyethylene Oxide/Polyethylene Oligomeric Blends from Kirkwood–Buff Theory and Molecular Simulations

(2022) Fotis Venetsanos et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Thermoresponsive Ionic Liquid/Water Mixtures: From Nanostructuring to Phase Separation

(2022) Nancy C. Forero-Martinez et al.   MOLECULES

Virtual Screening for Organic Solar Cells and Light Emitting Diodes

(2022) Nancy C. Forero‐Martinez et al.   Advanced Science

Thermodynamics, morphology, mechanics, and thermal transport of PMMA-PLA blends

(2022) Debashish Mukherji et al.   Physical Review Materials

Comparison of all atom and united atom models for thermal transport calculations of amorphous polyethylene

(2022) James Wu et al.   COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE

Role of torsional potential in chain conformation, thermodynamics, and glass formation of simulated polybutadiene melts

(2022) F. Demydiuk et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Thermal Conductivity of Semicrystalline Polymer Networks: Crystallinity or Cross-Linking?

(2022) Manoj Kumar Maurya et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Detecting the First Hydration Shell Structure around Biomolecules at Interfaces

(2022) Daniel Konstantinovsky et al.   ACS Central Science

Odd–even effect on the thermal conductivity of liquid crystalline epoxy resins

(2022) Guangxin Lv et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Thermal Transport in Molecular Forests

(2021) Aashish Bhardwaj et al.   ACS Nano

Switching (bio-) adhesion and friction in liquid by stimulus responsive polymer coatings

(2021) Yunlong Yu et al.   EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL

Tuning thermal transport in highly cross-linked polymers by bond-induced void engineering

(2021) Debashish Mukherji et al.   Physical Review Materials

Thermal Imaging of Block Copolymers with Sub-10 nm Resolution

(2021) Steven Gottlieb et al.   ACS Nano

Proline Isomerization Regulates the Phase Behavior of Elastin-Like Polypeptides in Water

(2021) Yani Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Co-Nonsolvency Effect in Solutions of Poly(methyl methacrylate)-b-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Diblock Copolymers in Water/Methanol Mixtures

(2021) Chia-Hsin Ko et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Effect of Linker Length and Temperature on the Thermal Conductivity of Ethylene Dynamic Networks

(2021) Guangxin Lv et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Comparing simulated specific heat of liquid polymers and oligomers to experiments

(2021) Hongyu Gao et al.   Physical Review Materials

High Thermal Conductivity Semicrystalline Epoxy Resins with Anthraquinone-Based Hardeners

(2021) Guangxin Lv et al.   ACS Applied Polymer Materials

Thermoreversible Gelation of Associating Polymers in Hydrogen-Bonding Mixed Solvents

(2021) Fumihiko Tanaka   LANGMUIR

Microscopic Model to Quantify the Difference of Energy-Transfer Rates between Bonded and Nonbonded Monomers in Polymers

(2021) Louis Pigard et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Molecular Dynamics Test of the Stress-Thermal Rule in Polyethylene and Polystyrene Entangled Melts

(2020) David Nieto Simavilla et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Process-directed self-assembly of copolymers: Results of and challenges for simulation studies

(2020) Marcus Müller   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Polymer Brushes and Gels in Competing Solvents: The Role of Different Interactions and Quantitative Predictions for Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) in Alcohol–Water Mixtures

(2020) Huaisong Yong et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Why Do Elastin-Like Polypeptides Possibly Have Different Solvation Behaviors in Water–Ethanol and Water–Urea Mixtures?

(2020) Yani Zhao et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Polymer bioconjugates: Modern design concepts toward precision hybrid materials

(2020) Chaojian Chen et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Calculation of specific heat of polymers using molecular dynamics simulations

(2019) Rahul Bhowmik et al.   POLYMER

Influence of mass and charge disorder on the phonon thermal conductivity of entropy stabilized oxides determined by molecular dynamics simulations

(2019) M. Lim et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Effect of Peptide Sequence on the LCST-Like Transition of Elastin-Like Peptides and Elastin-Like Peptide–Collagen-Like Peptide Conjugates: Simulations and Experiments

(2019) Ammu Prhashanna et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Role of Ionization in Thermal Transport of Solid Polyelectrolytes

(2019) Xingfei Wei et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Soft and Smart: Co-nonsolvency-Based Design of Multiresponsive Copolymers

(2019) Debashish Mukherji et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Cononsolvency of Elastin-like Polypeptides in Water/Alcohol Solutions

(2019) Carolyn E. Mills et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Switch It Inside-Out: “Schizophrenic” Behavior of All Thermoresponsive UCST–LCST Diblock Copolymers

(2019) Christine M. Papadakis et al.   LANGMUIR

Tuning Morphology and Thermal Transport of Asymmetric Smart Polymer Blends by Macromolecular Engineering

(2019) Daniel Bruns et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Entropy Can Bundle Nanowires in Good Solvents

(2019) Hongyu Gao et al.   NANO LETTERS

Thermally-Responsive Hydrogels Poly(N-Isopropylacrylamide) as the Thermal Switch

(2019) Hao Feng et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Smart Responsive Polymers: Fundamentals and Design Principles

(2019) Debashish Mukherji et al.   Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Elasticity and thermal transport of commodity plastics

(2019) Céline Ruscher et al.   Physical Review Materials

Thermodynamic analysis of Lennard-Jones binary mixtures using Kirkwood-Buff theory

(2018) Aikaterini A. Galata et al.   FLUID PHASE EQUILIBRIA

Gluonic and Regulatory Solvents: A Paradigm for Tunable Phase Segregation in Polymers

(2018) Jens-Uwe Sommer   MACROMOLECULES

Calculating lattice thermal conductivity: a synopsis

(2018) Giorgia Fugallo et al.   PHYSICA SCRIPTA

Molecular dynamics study of the LCST transition in aqueous poly(N-n-propylacrylamide)

(2018) Tiago E. de Oliveira et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Tunable thermal transport and reversible thermal conductivity switching in topologically networked bio-inspired materials

(2018) John A. Tomko et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Charge-Induced Disorder Controls the Thermal Conductivity of Entropy-Stabilized Oxides

(2018) Jeffrey L. Braun et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Sequence transferable coarse-grained model of amphiphilic copolymers

(2017) Chathuranga C. De Silva et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Effects of stereochemistry and copolymerization on the LCST of PNIPAm

(2017) Tiago E. de Oliveira et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Beyond the Hofmeister Series: Ion-Specific Effects on Proteins and Their Biological Functions

(2017) Halil I. Okur et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Collapse in two good solvents, swelling in two poor solvents: defying the laws of polymer solubility?

(2017) Debashish Mukherji et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Concentration Fluctuations near Lower Critical Solution Temperature in Ternary Aqueous Solutions

(2017) Di Jia et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Adsorption–Attraction Model for Co-Nonsolvency in Polymer Brushes

(2017) Jens-Uwe Sommer   MACROMOLECULES

Preferential adsorption of the additive is not a prerequisite for cononsolvency in water-rich mixtures

(2017) Jian Wang et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

A new thermoresponsive polymer of poly(N-acryloylsarcosine methyl ester) with a tunable LCST

(2017) Shengli Chen et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Thermoresponsive functional polymers based on 2,6-diaminopyridine motif with tunable UCST behaviour in water/alcohol mixtures

(2017) Asad Asadujjaman et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Non-linear PEG-based thermoresponsive polymer systems

(2017) Nezha Badi   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Reply to the ‘Comment on “Relating side chain organization of PNIPAm with its conformation in aqueous methanol”’ by A. Pica and G. Graziano, Soft Matter, 2017, 13, DOI: 10.1039/C7SM01065F

(2017) Debashish Mukherji et al.   Soft Matter

Depleted depletion drives polymer swelling in poor solvent mixtures

(2017) Debashish Mukherji et al.   Nature Communications

Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Microgels under Alcoholic Intoxication: When a LCST Polymer Shows Swelling with Increasing Temperature

(2017) Sebastian Backes et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Thermal Switching of Thermoresponsive Polymer Aqueous Solutions

(2017) Chen Li et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Thermal Transport in Soft PAAm Hydrogels

(2017) Ni Tang et al.   Polymers

High Thermal and Electrical Conductivity of Template Fabricated P3HT/MWCNT Composite Nanofibers

(2016) Matthew K. Smith et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Communication: Kirkwood-Buff integrals in the thermodynamic limit from small-sized molecular dynamics simulations

(2016) R. Cortes-Huerto et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

C–IBI: Targeting cumulative coordination within an iterative protocol to derive coarse-grained models of (multi-component) complex fluids

(2016) Tiago E. de Oliveira et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Quantifying the Interactions in the Aggregation of Thermoresponsive Polymers: The Effect of Cononsolvency

(2016) Konstantinos Kyriakos et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Re-entrance of Poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide) in D2O/d-Ethanol Mixture at 27 °C

(2016) Di Jia et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Thermal Conductivity, Heat Capacity, and Elastic Constants of Water-Soluble Polymers and Polymer Blends

(2016) Xu Xie et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Polyacetals: Water-Soluble, pH-Degradable Polymers with Extraordinary Temperature Response

(2016) Sanjoy Samanta et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Concentration dependent effects of urea binding to poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) brushes: a combined experimental and numerical study

(2016) Samantha Micciulla et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Relating side chain organization of PNIPAm with its conformation in aqueous methanol

(2016) Debashish Mukherji et al.   Soft Matter

Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Phase Diagrams: Fifty Years of Research

(2015) Avraham Halperin et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

LCST Behavior is Manifested in a Single Molecule: Elastin-Like polypeptide (VPGVG)n

(2015) Binwu Zhao et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Communication: Cosolvency and cononsolvency explained in terms of a Flory-Huggins type theory

(2015) Jacek Dudowicz et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Co-non-solvency: Mean-field polymer theory does not describe polymer collapse transition in a mixture of two competing good solvents

(2015) Debashish Mukherji et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Macromolecular Crowding Modifies the Impact of Specific Hofmeister Ions on the Coil–Globule Transition of PNIPAM

(2015) Kenji Sakota et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Polymers with upper critical solution temperature behavior in alcohol/water solvent mixtures

(2015) Qilu Zhang et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

A thermal diode and novel implementation in a phase-change material

(2015) E. Pallecchi et al.   Materials Horizons

Organ Repair, Hemostasis, and In Vivo Bonding of Medical Devices by Aqueous Solutions of Nanoparticles

(2014) Anne Meddahi-Pellé  et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

High thermal conductivity in amorphous polymer blends by engineered interchain interactions

(2014) Gun-Ho Kim et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Enhanced solvation effect of re-collapsing behavior for cross-linked PMMA particle gel in aqueous alcohol solutions

(2014) Sang Min Lee et al.   POLYMER

Co-nonsolvency of PNiPAM at the transition between solvation mechanisms

(2014) I. Bischofberger et al.   Soft Matter

Polymer collapse in miscible good solvents is a generic phenomenon driven by preferential adsorption

(2014) Debashish Mukherji et al.   Nature Communications

Solvent-induced immiscibility of polymer brushes eliminates dissipation channels

(2014) Sissi de Beer et al.   Nature Communications

Cosolvency-Induced Switching of the Adhesion between Poly(methyl methacrylate) Brushes

(2014) Yunlong Yu et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Temperature and Urea Have Opposing Impacts on Polyproline II Conformational Bias

(2013) W. Austin Elam et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Molecular simulations and thermodynamic modeling for closed-loop phase miscibility of aqueous PEO solutions

(2013) Suk Yung Oh et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RESEARCH

Rationalizing Polymer Swelling and Collapse under Attractive Cosolvent Conditions

(2013) Jan Heyda et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Coil–Globule–Coil Transition of PNIPAm in Aqueous Methanol: Coupling All-Atom Simulations to Semi-Grand Canonical Coarse-Grained Reservoir

(2013) Debashish Mukherji et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Thermoresponsive self-assembled polymer colloids in water

(2013) Sabrina Hocine et al.   Soft Matter

Kirkwood–Buff Analysis of Liquid Mixtures in an Open Boundary Simulation

(2012) Debashish Mukherji et al.   Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Molecular Dynamics and Experimental Study of Conformation Change of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Hydrogels in Mixtures of Water and Methanol

(2012) Jonathan Walter et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Kirkwood–Buff Integrals for Finite Volumes

(2012) Peter Krüger et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Temperature dependent phase behavior of PNIPAM microgels in mixed water/methanol solvents

(2012) Hiroyuki Kojima et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS

Unexpected Temperature-Dependent Single Chain Mechanics of Poly(N-isopropyl-acrylamide) in Water

(2012) Shuxun Cui et al.   LANGMUIR

Toward Copolymers with Ideal Thermosensitivity: Solution Properties of Linear, Well-Defined Polymers of N-Isopropyl Acrylamide and N,N-Diethyl Acrylamide

(2012) Felix A. Plamper et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Polymer dynamics in responsive microgels: influence of cononsolvency and microgel architecture

(2012) C. Scherzinger et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Role of Solvation Effects in Protein Denaturation: From Thermodynamics to Single Molecules and Back

(2011) Jeremy L. England et al.   Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Preferential Adsorption and Co-nonsolvency of Thermoresponsive Polymers in Mixed Solvents of Water/Methanol

(2011) Fumihiko Tanaka et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Toward Efficient Carbon Nanotube/P3HT Solar Cells: Active Layer Morphology, Electrical, and Optical Properties

(2011) Shenqiang Ren et al.   NANO LETTERS

Testing the minimum thermal conductivity model for amorphous polymers using high pressure

(2011) Wen-Pin Hsieh et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

A model describing the internal structure of core/shell hydrogels

(2011) Jonas Gernandt et al.   Soft Matter

Structural changes in block copolymer micelles induced by cosolvent mixtures

(2011) Elizabeth G. Kelley et al.   Soft Matter

Reversible temperature regulation of electrical and thermal conductivity using liquid–solid phase transitions

(2011) Ruiting Zheng et al.   Nature Communications

Adhesion and Mechanical Properties of PNIPAM Microgel Films and Their Potential Use as Switchable Cell Culture Substrates

(2010) Stephan Schmidt et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Solubility and Thermoresponsiveness of PMMA in Alcohol-Water Solvent Mixtures

(2010) Richard Hoogenboom et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

Cononsolvency of Poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide) (PDEAAM) and Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) Based Microgels in Water/Methanol Mixtures: Copolymer vs Core−Shell Microgel

(2010) Christine Scherzinger et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Emerging applications of stimuli-responsive polymer materials

(2010) Martien A. Cohen Stuart et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Polyethylene nanofibres with very high thermal conductivities

(2010) Sheng Shen et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Capillarity-based switchable adhesion

(2010) Michael J. Vogel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Predicting the thermal conductivity of inorganic and polymeric glasses: The role of anharmonicity

(2009) Sergei Shenogin et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Investigating the Hydrogen-Bonding Model of Urea Denaturation

(2009) Laura B. Sagle et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Urea’s Action on Hydrophobic Interactions

(2009) Ronen Zangi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Pluronic block copolymers: Evolution of drug delivery concept from inert nanocarriers to biological response modifiers

(2008) Elena V. Batrakova et al.   JOURNAL OF CONTROLLED RELEASE

Thermoassociating Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) A−B−A Stereoblock Copolymers

(2008) Sami Hietala et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Temperature-Responsive Polymers in Mixed Solvents: Competitive Hydrogen Bonds Cause Cononsolvency

(2008) Fumihiko Tanaka et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Urea denaturation by stronger dispersion interactions with proteins than water implies a 2-stage unfolding

(2008) L. Hua et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA