Silica nanoparticles affixed with a distribution of polystyrene chains (purple) self-assemble into hexagonal lattices. Depending on how the chains are organized on the particle surface, they tangle ...

Composite adhesives like epoxy resins are excellent tools for joining and filling materials including wood, metal, and concrete. But there's one problem: once a composite sets, it's there forever. Now ...

In our previous papers, 29, 30 we have reported the molecular characterizations of another class of brushes, the so-called ‘rod brushes’, which consist of a flexible polystyrene backbone and ...

The power of combining sum frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy and solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) spectroscopy to quantify, with site specificity and atomic resolution, ...

In designing functional organic materials with desired properties, spatial arrangement control of constituent molecules is an important factor because molecules in a regulated assembly often indicate ...