6 papers
A Generic Explanation of the Mechanism of Co-solvency
Xiangyu Zhang, Dong Meng
Polymer behavior in mixed solvents often exhibits intriguing phenomena, such as cosolvency, where a polymer that collapses in two individually poor solvents becomes soluble in thei…
Tuning Diblock Copolymer Morphology by Adding Associative Homopolymers
Xiangyu Zhang, Jing Zong, Dong Meng
The ability to tune the microstructures formed by block copolymers using accessible physical approaches provides control for practical material applications. A common strategy invo…
Micellization of Diblock Copolymer Modified by Cononsolvency Effect
Xiangyu Zhang, Jing Zong, Dong Meng
Spherical micelle modified by cononsolvency effect is investigated by using self-consistent field theory (SCFT) and random phase approximation, which is formed by diblock copolymer…
Micelle Formation of Diblock Copolymers Driven by Cononsolvency Effect
Xiangyu Zhang, Jing Zong, Dong Meng
This study utilizes self-consistent field theory to characterize various features of cononsolvency-driven spherical micelles formed by double hydrophilic block copolymers (DHBCs).…
Effects of Dynamic Bonds on the Kinetic Pathways of Supramolecular Diblock Copolymers Disorder-Order Transition
Xiangyu Zhang, Dong Meng
Supramolecular block copolymers (SBC) consist of covalent polymer building blocks that are connected into well-defined architectures via supramolecular bonds. Assisted by the dynam…
Investigation of Polymer Association Behaviors in Solvents Using a Coarse-Grained Model
Xiangyu Zhang, Dong Meng
The associative interaction, such as hydrogen bonding, can bring about versatile functionalities to polymer systems, which has been investigated by tremendous researches, but the f…