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Strongly Charged Polymer Brushes
Ben O'Shaughnessy, Qingbo Yang
Charged polymer brushes are layers of surface-tethered chains. Experimental systems are frequently strongly charged. Here we calculate phase diagrams for such brushes in terms of s…
Non-Equilibrium in Adsorbed Polymer Layers
Ben O'Shaughnessy, Dimitrios Vavylonis
High molecular weight polymer solutions have a powerful tendency to deposit adsorbed layers when exposed to even mildly attractive surfaces. The equilibrium properties of these den…
Actin Polymerization Kinetics, Cap Structure and Fluctuations
Dimitrios Vavylonis, Qingbo Yang, Ben O'Shaughnessy
Polymerization of actin proteins into dynamic structures is essential to eukaryotic cell life. This has motivated a large body of in vitro experiments measuring polymerization kine…
The Slowly Formed Guiselin Brush
Ben O'Shaughnessy, Dimitrios Vavylonis
We study polymer layers formed by irreversible adsorption from a polymer melt. Our theory describes an experiment which is a ``slow'' version of that proposed by Guiselin [Europhys…
Dynamics of Living Polymers
Ben O'Shaughnessy, Dimitrios Vavylonis
We study theoretically the dynamics of living polymers which can add and subtract monomer units at their live chain ends. The classic example is ionic living polymerization. In equ…
Pulsed Laser Polymerization at Low Conversions: Broadening and Chain Transfer Effects
Ben O'Shaughnessy, Dimitrios Vavylonis
Pulsed laser polymerization (PLP) is widely employed to measure propagation rate coefficients k_p in free radical polymerization. Various properties of PLP have been established in…