3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Persistent Free Volume Governs (Anti)plasticization in Chitosan-Water Mixtures
Baris E. Ugur, Michael A. Webb
Chitosan is a highly versatile and sustainable polymer with a broad range of potential biological and materials engineering applications. Despite its versatility, the native brittl…
cs.LG2026
Range-Aware Bayesian Optimization for Discovering Diverse Designs within Target Property Windows
Shengli Jiang, Jason Wu, Charles M. Schroeder +1
In many materials and product design problems, desirable candidates exhibit properties that fall within an acceptable range rather than achieve a single optimum. Recovering multipl…
cond-mat.soft2025
Role of interaction anisotropy in polymer cononsolvency: insights from the Flory-Huggins-Potts framework
Satyen Dhamankar, Michael A. Webb
Cononsolvency occurs when mixing two good solvents creates poor-solvent conditions for polymers over specific composition ranges, causing macroscopic phase separation or microscopi…