Polymer Brushes and Functional Interfaces

Presentations

• Fundamentals and Applications of Polymer Brushes in Air

  ORAL · Invited

  March 14, 2022, 4:00 PM – March 14, 2022, 4:36 PM

  Publication: M Brió Pérez, M Cirelli, S de Beer, ACS applied polymer materials 2, 3039-3043 (2020)<br>GC Ritsema van Eck, LB Veldscholte, JHWH Nijkamp, S de Beer, Macromolecules 53, 8428-8437 (2020)<br>LA Smook, GC Ritsema van Eck, S De Beer, Macromolecules 53, 10898-10906 (2020)<br>LIS Mensink, S de Beer, JH Snoeijer, Soft matter 17, 1368-1375 (2021)<br>LA Smook, GC Ritsema van Eck, S de Beer, the Journal of Chemical Physics 155, 054904 (2021)

  Presenters

  • Sissi De Beer

    University of Twente

  Authors

  • Sissi De Beer

    University of Twente

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• Free Energy for Adhesion of Nanocarriers to Endothelial Cells

  ORAL

  March 14, 2022, 4:36 PM – March 14, 2022, 4:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Saeed Akbari

    Case Western Reserve University

  Authors

  • Saeed Akbari

    Case Western Reserve University

  • Shaghayegh Khani

    Case Western Reserve University

  • Joao M Maia

    Case Western Reserve University

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• Arbitrarily curved polymer brushes and their end-exclusion zones

  ORAL

  March 14, 2022, 4:48 PM – March 14, 2022, 5:00 PM

  Publication: Michael S. Dimitriyev and Gregory M. Grason. "End exclusion zones in strongly stretched, molten polymer brushes of arbitrary shape". (submitted for review, 2021) Preprint: arXiv:2109.13979

  Presenters

  • Michael S Dimitriyev

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Authors

  • Michael S Dimitriyev

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Gregory M Grason

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

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• Durable anti-fogging coatings via surface-initiated photopolymerization

  ORAL

  March 14, 2022, 5:00 PM – March 14, 2022, 5:12 PM

  Publication: ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2021, 3, 10, 5291–5301

  Presenters

  • Christian W Pester

    Pennsylvania State University, Penn State

  Authors

  • Christian W Pester

    Pennsylvania State University, Penn State

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• Stimulus-Responsive Microphase-Separation of Resilin/Elastin Block-Copolypeptides in Solution and on Surfaces

  ORAL

  March 14, 2022, 5:12 PM – March 14, 2022, 5:24 PM

  Publication: Biomacromolecules, 2021 Sep 13; 22(9):3827-3838. doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.1c00672

  Presenters

  • Stefan Zauscher

    Duke University

  Authors

  • Stefan Zauscher

    Duke University

  • Ashutosh Chilkoti

    Duke University

  • Michael Gradzielski

    TU Berlin

  • Luis A Navarro

    Syngenta

  • Justin Ryan

    Apeel

  • Michael Dzuricky

    Duke University

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• Importance of the Polymer Ligand Conformation to the Assembly of Nanoparticles within Emulsion-Evaporative Block Copolymer Particles

  ORAL

  March 14, 2022, 5:24 PM – March 14, 2022, 5:36 PM

  Publication: Meng X. et al., Macromolecules 2021, 54, 7, 3084–3092

  Presenters

  • Meng Xu

    KAIST

  Authors

  • Meng Xu

    KAIST

  • Hongseok Yun

    Hanyang University, KAIST

  • Bumjoon J Kim

    KAIST

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• nano-FTIR for probing molecule orientation and conformation in thin polymer brush films with nanoscale spatial resolution

  ORAL

  March 14, 2022, 5:36 PM – March 14, 2022, 5:48 PM

  Publication: Conformation in Ultrathin Polymer Brush Coatings Resolved by Infrared Nanoscopy<br>A. de los Santos Pereira, A. Cernescu, J. Svoboda, R. Sivkova, I. Romanenko, B. Bashta, F. Keilmann and O. Pop-Georgievski*<br>Anal. Chem. 92, 7, 4716-4720 (2020)<br>DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05661

  Presenters

  • Tobias Gokus

    attocube Systems AG

  Authors

  • Tobias Gokus

    attocube Systems AG

  • Adrian Cernescu

    attocube Systems AG

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• 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

  ORAL

  March 14, 2022, 5:48 PM – March 14, 2022, 6:00 PM

  Publication: A. Lishchuk et al, "Active control of strong plasmon-exciton coupling in biomimetic pigment-polymer antenna complexes grown by surface-initiated polymerisation from gold nanostructures", in preparation.

  Presenters

  • Graham J Leggett

    University of Sheffield

  Authors

  • Graham J Leggett

    University of Sheffield

  • Anna Lishcuk

    University of Sheffield

  • Evelin Csanyi

    University of Sheffield

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• The importance of charge regulation for DNA-like polymer layers in a physiological intranuclear environment: effect of mono- and multivalent cations

  ORAL

  March 14, 2022, 6:00 PM – March 14, 2022, 6:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Rikkert J Nap

    Northwestern University

  Authors

  • Rikkert J Nap

    Northwestern University

  • Ranya K Virk

    Northwestern University

  • Marcelo A Carignano

    Northwestern University

  • Vadim Backman

    Northwestern University

  • Igal G Szleifer

    Northwestern University

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• Interaction potential for coarse-grained models of bottlebrush polymers

  ORAL

  March 14, 2022, 6:12 PM – March 14, 2022, 6:24 PM

  Publication: [1] Interaction potential for coarse-grained models of bottlebrush polymers. (Submitted)

  Presenters

  • Tianyuan Pan

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Authors

  • Tianyuan Pan

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Sarit Dutta

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Charles E Sing

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• Neutron characterization of stimuli-responsive polymer brushes for nanofluidic gating

  ORAL

  March 14, 2022, 6:24 PM – March 14, 2022, 6:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Hadi Rahmaninejad

    Department of Physics & Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States.

  Authors

  • Hadi Rahmaninejad

    Department of Physics & Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States.

  • Andrew J Parnell

    Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.

  • Thomas H Sexton

    Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

  • John F Ankner

    Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States

  • Wei-Liang Chen

    Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States.

  • Wim Bras

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States.

  • Christopher K Ober

    Cornell University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States

  • Anthony J Ryan

    Department of Chemistry, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.

  • Rana Ashkar

    Department of Physics & Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Virginia Tech, Department of Physics & Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States.

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• Understanding Strong Hydration, Salt-Resistance, and Antibiofouling of Zwitterionic Materials from Ab Initio Simulations

  ORAL

  March 14, 2022, 6:36 PM – March 14, 2022, 6:48 PM

  Publication: 1. P. Sarker et al, Understanding zwitterionic hydration and antibiofouling from multiscale simulations (in prep.) (2021).<br>2. H. Huang; C. Zhang, et al., Strong surface hydration and salt resistance mechanism of a new zwitterionic polymer based on protein stabilizer TMAO, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 143, 16786 (2021).

  Presenters

  • Pranab Sarker

    Howard University

  Authors

  • Pranab Sarker

    Howard University

  • Tao Wei

    Howard University

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• Assembly Behavior of Bottlebrush Random Copolymers at the Water/Toluene Interface

  ORAL

  March 14, 2022, 6:48 PM – March 14, 2022, 7:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Hong-Gyu Seong

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Authors

  • Hong-Gyu Seong

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Zhan Chen

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Todd S Emrick

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Thomas P Russell

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

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