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Simple generic picture of toughness in solid polymer blends
Debashish Mukherji, Shubham Agarwal, Tiago Espinosa de Oliveira +2
Toughness of a brittle polymeric solid can be enhanced by blending another compatible and ductile polymer. While this common wisdom is generally valid, a generic pict…
Correlating thermodynamics, morphology, mechanics and thermal transport in PMMA-PLA blends
Debashish Mukherji, Tiago Espinosa de Oliveira, Celine Ruscher +1
Thermodynamics controls structure, function, stability and morphology of polymer blends. However, obtaining the precise information about their mixing thermodynamics is a challengi…
A fluid bilayer phase in aqueous mixtures of fatty alcohol and cationic surfactant
Tiago Espinosa de Oliveira, Fabien Leonforte, Luc Nicolas-Morgantini +4
The phase of lipid bilayers is a fluid self-assembled state, key to the formulation of cosmetics, detergents and pharmaceutics. Despite having been extensively scrutinized in…
Tuning morphology and thermal transport of asymmetric smart polymer blends by macromolecular engineering
Daniel Bruns, Tiago Espinosa de Oliveira, Joerg Rottler +1
A grand challenge in designing polymeric materials is to tune their properties by macromolecular engineering. In this context, one of the drawbacks that often limits broader applic…
IBI: Targeting cumulative coordination within an iterative protocol to derive coarse-grained models of (multi-component) complex fluids
Tiago E. de Oliveira, Paulo A. Netz, Kurt Kremer +2
We present a coarse-graining strategy that we test for aqueous mixtures. The method uses pair-wise cumulative coordination as a target function within an iterative Boltzmann invers…
Why does high pressure destroy co-non-solvency of PNIPAm in aqueous methanol?
Tiago E. de Oliveira, Paulo A. Netz, Debashish Mukherji +1
It is well known that poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAm) exhibits an interesting, yet puzzling, phenomenon of co-non-solvency. Co-non-solvency occurs when two competing good solv…