https://pubs.acs.org/loi/mamobx

Surface-Initiated Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization: A Method for Synthesizing Polymer-Functionalized Nanoparticles Exhibiting Semicrystalline Properties and Diverse Macromolecular Architectures

Jacob A. LaNasa and Robert J. Hickey*

Swelling Behaviors of Hydrogels with Alternating Neutral/Highly Charged Sequences

Jian Tang, Takuya Katashima*, Xiang Li, Yoshiro Mitsukami, Yuki Yokoyama, Naoyuki Sakumichi, Ung-il Chung, Mitsuhiro Shibayama, and Takamasa Sakai*

Understanding the Synthesis of Linear–Bottlebrush–Linear Block Copolymers: Toward Plastomers with Well-Defined Mechanical Properties

Yidan Cong, Mohammad Vatankhah-Varnosfaderani, Vahid Karimkhani, Andrew N. Keith, Frank A. Leibfarth, Michael R. Martinez, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, and Sergei S. Sheiko*

Dynamics of PDMS-g-PDMS Bottlebrush Polymers by Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy

Bruno Jakobi*, Karin J. Bichler, Anna Sokolova, and Gerald J. Schneider*

Exploring the Effects of Bulky Cations Tethered to Semicrystalline Polymers: The Case of Tetraaminophosphoniums with Ring-Opened Polynorbornenes

Megan Treichel, C. Tyler Womble, Ryan Selhorst, Jamie Gaitor, Taniya M. S. K. Pathiranage, Tomasz Kowalewski*, and Kevin J. T. Noonan*

Preparation of Inorganic/Organic Double-Network Ion Gels Using a Cross-Linkable Polymer in an Open System

Eiji Kamio*, Masayuki Kinoshita, Tomoki Yasui, Timothy P. Lodge, and Hideto Matsuyama*

Challenges of Size-Exclusion Chromatography for the Analysis of Bottlebrush Polymers

Dylan J. Walsh, Matthew A. Wade, Simon A. Rogers, and Damien Guironnet*

Issue 16

Structural Electrolytes Based on Epoxy Resins and Ionic Liquids: A Molecular-Level Investigation

Baris Demir*, Kit-ying Chan, and Debra J. Searles*

Effect of Molecular Stiffness on the Physical Aging of Polymers

Bradley R. Frieberg, Emmanouil Glynos, Georgios Sakellariou, Madhusudan Tyagi, and Peter F. Green*

Acylsemicarbazide Moieties with Dynamic Reversibility and Multiple Hydrogen Bonding for Transparent, High Modulus, and Malleable Polymers

Daihua Fu, Wuli Pu, Jorge Escorihuela, Xiaorong Wang, Zhanhua Wang, Siyao Chen, Shaojie Sun, Shuo Wang, Han Zuilhof*, and Hesheng Xia*

Convenient Synthesis of Very-Thick Concentrated Polymer Brushes by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization in an Ionic Liquid

Shu-Yao Hsu, Kohji Ohno, Keita Sakakibara*, and Yoshinobu Tsujii*

Periodic Surface Pattern Induced by Crystallization of Polymer Brushes in Solvents

Shintaro Nakagawa* and Naoko Yoshie*

Issue 15

Self-Healing and Moldable Poly(2-isopropenyl-2-oxazoline) Supramolecular Hydrogels Based on a Transient Metal Coordination Network

Xiaowen Xu, Florica Adriana Jerca, Valentin Victor Jerca*, and Richard Hoogenboom*

Polymer-Coupled Local Dynamics Enhances Conductivity of Ionic Liquids

Siqi Liu, Madhusudan Tyagi, and Pinar Akcora*

Tailoring Poly(2-oxazoline)-Based Polymeric Ionic Liquids as Thermoresponsive Molecular Brushes and Programmable Dispersants for Silver Nanoparticles

Steffen Wiedmann, Benjamin Kerscher, Caroline Lienert, David Böcherer, and Rolf Mülhaupt*

Issue 14

Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of 1,1-Disubstituted 1-Methylcyclopropenes

• Jessica K. Su, So Young Lee, Benjamin R. Elling, and Yan Xia*

Alternating Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization Provides Easy Access to Functional and Fully Degradable Polymers

• Francis O. Boadi, Jingling Zhang, Xiaoxi Yu, Surita R. Bhatia, and Nicole S. Sampson*

Issue 13

Synthesis of Functionally and Stereochemically Diverse Polymers via Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of Derivatives of the Biomass-Derived Platform Molecule Levoglucosenone Produced at Industrial Scale

• Martin G. Banwell*, Xin Liu, Luke A. Connal, and Michael G. Gardiner

• • • • Using Copolymers to Design Tunable Stimuli-Reponsive Brushes

      • Shuanhu Qi*, Leonid I. Klushin, Alexander M. Skvortsov, and Friederike Schmid

Issue 12

•Toward Quantitative Prediction of the Mechanical Properties of Tandem Modular Elastomeric Protein-Based Hydrogels

Linglan Fu and Hongbin Li

•Supramolecular Polymer Brushes: Influence of Molecular Weight and Cross-Linking on Linear Viscoelastic Behavior

Milad Golkaram, Evelyne van Ruymbeke, Giuseppe Portale, and Katja Loos

•Azobenzene Molecular Trigger Controlling Phase Transitions of PNIPAm in Ionic Liquids and Light-Controlled Adhesiveness

Caihong Wang, Peiqi Li, Shiguo Zhang, Guoqiang Zhang, Shuai Tan, Yong Wu, and Masayoshi Watanabe

•The Effect of Oligo(oxyethylene) Moieties on Ion Conduction and Dielectric Properties of Norbornene-Based Imidazolium Tf2N Ionic Liquid Monomers

U Hyeok Choi, Terry L. Price Jr., Daniel V. Schoonover, Harry W. Gibson, and Ralph H. Colby

Issue 11

No articles of note

Issue 10

•Syndiotactic α-Olefin Molecular Bottlebrushes: Crystallization, Melting, and Hierarchical Microstructure

Carlos R. López-Barrón, John R. Hagadorn, Sarah J. Mattler, and Joseph A. Throckmorton

•Linear Viscoelastic Response of Unentangled Polystyrene Bottlebrushes

Stelios Alexandris, Katerina Peponaki, Paraskevi Petropoulou, Georgios Sakellariou, and Dimitris Vlassopoulos

•Tailoring the Toughness of Elastomers by Incorporating Ionic Cross-Linking

Thomas R. Cristiani, Emmanouela Filippidi, Rachel L. Behrens, Megan T. Valentine, and Claus D. Eisenbach

Issue 9

•The Beauty of Branching in Polymer Science

Soyoung E. Seo and Craig J. Hawker*

•Influence of the Ester Directing Group on the Inhibition of Defect Formation in Polythiophenes with Direct Arylation Polymerization (DArP)

Robert M. Pankow, Liwei Ye, and Barry C. Thompson*

•Cytoskeleton-Inspired Artificial Protein Design to Enhance Polymer Network Elasticity

David S. Knoff, Haley Szczublewski, Dallas Altamirano, Kareen A. Fajardo Cortes, and Minkyu Kim*

•What Determines the Glass Temperature and dc-Conductivity in Imidazolium-Polymerized Ionic Liquids with a Polythiophene Backbone?

Achilleas Pipertzis, George Papamokos, Markus Mühlinghaus, Markus Mezger, Ullrich Scherf*, and George Floudas*

•Elastic Single-Ion Conducting Polymer Electrolytes: Toward a Versatile Approach for Intrinsically Stretchable Functional Polymers

Peng-Fei Cao*, Bingrui Li, Guang Yang, Sheng Zhao, Jacob Townsend, Kunyue Xing, Zhe Qiang, Konstantinos D. Vogiatzis, Alexei P. Sokolov, Jagjit Nanda, and Tomonori Saito*

Issue 8

•Fabrication of Bioinspired Hydrogels: Challenges and Opportunities

Hailong Fan and Jian Ping Gong

•Surface-Initiated Photoinduced ATRP: Mechanism, Oxygen Tolerance, and Temporal Control during the Synthesis of Polymer Brushes

Wenqing Yan, Sajjad Dadashi-Silab, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski*, Nicholas D. Spencer*, and Edmondo M. Benetti*

•Facile Preparation of Polyimine Vitrimers with Enhanced Creep Resistance and Thermal and Mechanical Properties via Metal Coordination

Sheng Wang, Songqi Ma*, Qiong Li, Xiwei Xu, Binbo Wang, Kaifeng Huang, Yanlin liu, and Jin Zhu

•Structure of Polyelectrolyte Brushes on Polarizable Substrates

Jiaxing Yuan, Hanne S. Antila, and Erik Luijten*

•Controlled Synthesis of Densely Grafted Bottlebrushes That Bear Helical Polyisocyanide Side Chains on Polyisocyanide Backbones and Exhibit Greatly Increased Viscosity

Yi-Xu Su, Lei Xu, Xun-Hui Xu, Xiao-Hua Hou, Na Liu, and Zong-Quan Wu*

•Synthesis of Heterograft Copolymers with a Semifluorinated Backbone by Combination of Grafting-through and Grafting-from Polymerizations

Jeonghyeon Lee, Gérald Lopez, Bruno Améduri*, and Myungeun Seo*

Issue 7

•Dynamic Curing Agents for Amine-Hardened Epoxy Vitrimers with Short (Re)processing Times

• Yann Spiesschaert, Marc GuerreIves De Baere, Wim Van Paepegem, Johan M. Winne*, Filip E. Du Prez*

•Catalytic Chain Transfer Polymerization to Functional Reactive End Groups for Controlled Free Radical Growth

• Sonja M. Stadler, Inigo Göttker-Schnetmann, Amelie S. Fuchs, Stephan R. R. Fischer, Stefan Mecking*

•Microphase Segregation in the Melts of Bottlebrush Block Copolymers

• Ekaterina B. Zhulina, Sergei S. Sheiko, Andrey V. Dobrynin, Oleg V. Borisov

•Segmental Dynamics Measured by Quasi-Elastic Nuetron Scattering and Ion Transport in Chemically Distinct Polymer Electrolytes

• Katrina Irene S. Mongcopa, Daniel A. Gribble, Whitney S. Loo, Madhusudan Tyagi, Scott A. Mullin, Nitash P. Balsara*

•Understanding the Role of Cohesive Interaction in Mechanical Behavior of a Glassy Polymer

• Amirhadi Alesadi, Wenjie Xia*

Issue 6

•Rheological Properties of Covalent Adaptable Networks with 1,2,3-Triazolium Cross-Links: The Missing Link between Vitrimers and Dissociative Networks

Antoine Jourdain, Rawnaq Asbai, Omaima Anaya, Mohamed M. Chehimi, Eric Drockenmuller*, Damien Montarnal

•Tuning the Mechanical Properties of Metallopolymers via Ligand Interactions: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study

Yuval Vidavsky, Michael R. Buche, Zachary M. Sparrow, Xinyue Zhang, Steven J. Yang, Robert A. Di Stasio Jr.*, Meredith N. Silberstein*

•Facile Synthesis of Amphiphilic Bottlebrush Block Copolymers Bearing Pyridine Pendants via Click Reaction from Protected Alkyne Side Groups

• Myung-Jin Kim, Yong-Guen Yu, Chang-Geun Chae, Ho-Bin Seo, Jae-Suk Lee*

Issue 5

•Mechanochemical Degradation of Brush Polymers: Kinetics of Ultrasound-Induced Backbone and Arm Scission

Gregory I. Peterson*Jinkyung NohKi-Taek BangHyunji MaKyoung Taek KimTae-Lim Choi*

•Molecular Design and Characterization of Ionic Monomers with Varying Ion Pair Interaction Energies

Ryosuke MatsunoYota KokuboShinji KumagaiShigeaki TakamatsuKazunobu HashimotoAtsushi Takahara*

•Dielectric Study on the Well-Resolved Sub-Rouse and JG β-Relaxations of Poly(methylphenylsiloxane) at Ambient and Elevated Pressures

Wenkang Tu*K. L. NgaiMarian PaluchKarolina Adrjanowicz*

•Modifying the Structure and Dynamics of Ionomers through Counterion Sterics

Joshua S. EnokidaWeiguo HuHuagao FangBrian F. MorganFrederick L. BeyerH. Henning WinterE. Bryan Coughlin*

•Linear Viscoelasticity and Flow of Self-Assembled Vitrimers: The Case of a Polyethylene/Dioxaborolane System

Ralm G. Ricarte*François TournilhacMichel CloîtreLudwik Leibler*

Issue 4

•The First Dive into the Mechanism and Kinetics of ATRP

Kathryn L. Beers

•Relationship between Reaction Kinetics and Chain Dynamics of Vitrimers Based on Dioxaborolane Metathesis

Shilong WuHuanhuan YangShaoyong HuangQuan Chen*

•Exploring How Vitrimer-like Properties Can Be Achieved from Dissociative Exchange in Anilinium Salts

Progyateg ChakmaColleen N. MorleyJessica L. SparksDominik Konkolewicz*

•UV-Curable Biobased Polyacrylates Based on a Multifunctional Monomer Derived from Furfural

Jules StoutenDanny E. P. VanpouckeGuy Van AsscheKatrien V. Bernaerts*

•Ion Transport and Mechanical Properties of Non-Crystallizable Molecular Ionic Composite Electrolytes

Joshua E. BostwickCurt J. ZanelottiCiprian IacobAndrew G. KorovichLouis A. Madsen*Ralph H. Colby*

•Insights into the Water Transport Mechanism in Polymeric Membranes from Neutron Scattering

Edwin P. Chan*Bradley R. FriebergKanae ItoJacob TarverMadhusudan TyagiWenxu ZhangE. Bryan CoughlinChristopher M. StaffordAbhishek RoySteveRosenbergChristopher L. Soles*

Issue 3

•Self-Healing Solid Polymer Electrolyte Facilitated by a Dynamic Cross-Linked Polymer Matrix for Lithium-Ion Batteries

Ye Hyang JoShaoqiao LiCai ZuoYong ZhangHuihui GanSibo LiLiping YuDan HeXiaolin XieZhigang Xue*

•Responsive Supramolecular Microgels with Redox-Triggered Cleavable Crosslinks

Se-Hyeong JungSabine SchneiderFelix PlamperAndrij Pich*

•Single-Chain Janus Nanoparticle by Metallic Complexation

Dao XiangBingyin Jiang*Fuxin LiangLitang YanZhenzhong Yang*

•Universal Approach to Photo-Crosslink Bottlebrush Polymers

Sanjoy MukherjeeRenxuan XieVeronica G. ReynoldsTakumi UchiyamaAdam E. LeviEric ValoisHengbin WangMichael L. Chabinyc*Christopher M. Bates*

•End-Group Chemistry and Junction Chemistry in Polymer Science: Past, Present, and Future

Jihoon KimHa Young JungMoon Jeong Park*

•Sensitized Mechanoluminescence Design toward Mechanically Induced Intense Red Emission from Transparent Polymer Films

Fan YangYuan YuanRint P. Sijbesma*Yulan Chen*

•Sustainable and Biodegradable Copolymers from SO2 and Renewable Eugenol: A Novel Urea Fertilizer Coating Material with Superio Slow Release Performance

Limin LiuYonghao NiYunfei ZhiWenbo ZhaoManoj PudukudyQingming Jia*Shaoyun Shan*Kaifu ZhangXuefen Li

•Strong, Reconfigurable, and Recyclable Thermosets Cross-Linked by Polymer–Polymer Dynamic Interaction Based on Commodity Thermoplastics

Zongtao WangYu GuMingyu MaMao Chen*

Issue 2

•Discovery of the RAFT Process and Its Impact on Radical Polymerization

Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

•Analysis of the Gel Point of Polymer Model Networks by Computer Simulations

M. Lang*T. Müller

•Anomalous Aging and Stress Relaxation in Macromolecular Physical Gels: The Case of Strontium Alginate

Raffaele PastoreCiro SivielloFrancesco GrecoDomenico Larobina*

•Inputs of Macromolecular Engineering in the Design of Injectable Hydrogels Based on Synthetic Thermoresponsive Polymers

Vincent PerticiThomas Trimaille*Didier Gigmes*

•Self-Assembly of Bottlebrush Block Copolymers into Triply Periodic Nanostructures in a Dilute Solution

Hyunji MaKyoung Taek Kim*

Issue 1

•Interplay between Microscopic and Macroscopic Properties of Charged Hydrogels

Di Jia, Murugappan Muthukumar*

•Understanding the Relationship between Catalytic Activity and Termination in photoATRP: Synthesis of Linear and Bottlebrush Polyacrylates

Michael R. Martinez, Julian Sobieski, Francesca Lorandi, Marco Fantin, Sajjad Dadashi-Silab, Guojun Xie, Mateusz Olszewski, Xiangcheng Pan, Thomas G. Ribelli, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski*

2019

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Issue 24

• A Critical Approach to Polymer Dynamics in Supramolecular Polymers

Milad Golkaram, Katja Loos*

• Polyoxometalate-Based Hybrid Supramolecular Polymer via Orthogonal Metal Coordination and Reversible Photo-Cross-Linking

Jing Yan, Huiya Huang, Zhiliang Miao, Qiuyu Zhang*, Yi Yan*

Issue 23

•Slow Linear Viscoelastic Relaxation of Polymer Nanocomposites: Contribution from Confined Diffusion of Nanoparticles

Wei You, Wei Yu*

Issue 22

•Entropy and Enthalpy Mediated Segregation of Bottlebrush Copolymers to Interfaces

Hao Mei, Travis S. Laws, Jyoti P. Mahalik, Jiabei Li, Adeline H. Mah, Tanguy Terlier, Peter Bonnesen, David Uhrig, Rajeev Kumar*, Gila E. Stein*, Rafael Verduzco*

•Tuning Mechanical Properties of Biobased Polymers by Supramolecular Chain Entanglement

Meghan E. Lamm, Lingzhi Song, Zhongkai Wang, Md Anisur Rahman, Benjamin Lamm, Lin Fu, Chuanbing Tang*

•Alginate/Cucurbit[7]uril/Dequalinium-Based Supramolecular Carbohydrates: Modulation of FRET Signals by Temperature Control

Amir Sohail, Mohamed A. Alnaqbi, Na’il Saleh*

•Recent Advances and Future Perspectives of Synthetic Polypeptides from N-Carboxyanhydrides

Ziyuan Song, Zhengzhong Tan, Jianjun Cheng*

•Stress Relaxation in Highly Oriented Melts of Entangled Polymers

Thomas C. O’Connor*, Austin Hopkins*, Mark O. Robbins*

•Autonomous Shrinking/Swelling Phenomenon Driven By Macromolecular Interchain Cross-Linking via β-Cyclodextrin–Triazole Complexation

Yuuki Sugawara, Toshiki Takei, Hidenori Ohashi, Hidenori Kuroki, Shoji Miyanishi, Takeo Yamaguchi*

•Processable and Luminescent Supramolecular Hydrogels from Complex Coacervation of Polycations with Lanthanide Coordination Polyanions

Jiahua Wang, Shengtong Sun*, Bohang Wu, Lei Hou, Peng Ding, Xuhong Guo, Martien A. Cohen Stuart, Junyou Wang*

•Relaxation Dynamics and Underlying Mechanism of a Thermally Reversible Gel from Symmetric Triblock Copolymer

Ya Nan Ye, Kunpeng Cui*, Tsutomu Indei, Tasuku Nakajima, Dominique Hourdet, Takayuki Kurokawa, Jian Ping Gong*

Issue 21

Single-End-Functionalized Polycyclopentene via Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization with Concurrent Chain Transfer

Emily E. AbdoSeongHyuk ChoRichard A. Register*

•Block Polymer Micelles Enable CRISPR/Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein Delivery: Physicochemical Properties Affect Packaging Mechanisms and Gene Editing Efficiency

Zhe TanYaming JiangMitra S. GanewattaRamya KumarAllison KeithKirk TwaroskiThomas PengoJakub TolarTimothy P. LodgeTheresa M. Reineke*

•Diffusion- and Mobility-Controlled Self-Healing Polymer Networks with Dynamic Covalent Bonding

Jessica Mangialetto*Audrey CuvellierRobrecht VerhelleJoost BrancartHubert RahierGuy Van AsscheNiko Van den BrandeBruno Van Mele

Issue 20

•Modeling Supramolecular Polymerization: The Role of Steric Effects and Hydrophobic Interactions

Saikat ChakrabortyChristian M. BeracBenedict KemperPol BeseniusThomas Speck*

Issue 19

•Interfacial Tuning of the Cavitation and Strain-Softening Behavior of Polymer/Nanoparticle Composites in the Glassy State

Rui Shi, Hu-Jun Qian*, Zhong-Yuan Lu*

•Tensile Properties of Ultrathin Bisphenol-A Polycarbonate Films

Woo Jin Choi, R. Konane Bay, Alfred J. Crosby*

Issue 18

•Supramolecular Elastomers with Movable Cross-Linkers Showing High Fracture Energy Based on Stress Dispersion

Ryohei Ikura, Junsu Park, Motofumi Osaki, Hiroyasu Yamaguchi, Akira Harada*, Yoshinori Takashima*

Issue 17

•Two-Step Chemical Transformation of Polystyrene-block-poly(solketal acrylate) Copolymers for Increasing χ

Duk Man Yu, Darren M. Smith, Hyeyoung Kim, Javid Rzayev*, Thomas P. Russell

•Slide-Ring Cross-Links Mediated Tough Metallosupramolecular Hydrogels with Superior Self-Recoverability

Si Yu Zheng, Chang Liu, Lan Jiang, Ji Lin, Jin Qian, Koichi Mayumi*, Zi Liang Wu*, Kohzo Ito*, Qiang Zheng

•Ion Transport in Pendant and Backbone Polymerized Ionic Liquids

Preeya Kuray, Takeru Noda, Atsushi Matsumoto, Ciprian Iacob, Tadashi Inoue*, Michael A. Hickner*, James Runt*

Issue 16

•Manipulating the Mechanical Response of Hydrophobically Cross-Linked Hydrogels with Ionic Associations

Chao Wang, Katherine Deitrick, Junyoung Seo, Ziwei Cheng, Nicole S. Zacharia, R. A. Weiss*, Bryan D. Vogt*

Functionalized Polybutadiene for Clay–Polymer Nanocomposite Fabrication

Vijesh A. Tanna, Joshua S. Enokida, E. Bryan Coughlin, H. Henning Winter*

Issue 15

•Light-Controlled Switchable Ring Opening Polymerization

Min Li, Pan Zhang, Changle Chen*

Issue 14

•Dynamics of Critical Clusters Synthesized by End-Coupling of Four-Armed Poly(ethylene glycol)s

Xiang Li*, Takako Noritomi, Takamasa Sakai, Elliot P. Gilbert, Mitsuhiro Shibayama*

•Deconvolution of the Effects of Binary Associations and Collective Assemblies on the Rheological Properties of Entangled Side-Chain Supramolecular Polymer Networks

Mostafa Ahmadi*, Amir Jangizehi, Evelyne van Ruymbeke*, Sebastian Seiffert*

•Molecular-Level Tuning toward Aggregation Dynamics of Self-Healing Materials

Feng-Min Nie, Jing Cui, Yu-Feng Zhou, Li Pan*, Zhe Ma*, Yue-Sheng Li

Issue 13

•Microscopic State of Polymer Network Chains upon Swelling and Deformation

Anna Naumova, Diana Carolina Agudelo, Marcelo A. Villar, Daniel A. Vega, Juan Lopez Valentin, Kay Saalwächter*

Issue 13

•Connecting Elasticity and Effective Interactions of Neutral Microgels: The Validity of the Hertzian Model

Lorenzo Rovigatti*, Nicoletta Gnan, Andrea Ninarello, Emanuela Zaccarelli*

•Using Dynamic Bonds to Enhance the Mechanical Performance: From Microscopic Molecular Interactions to Macroscopic Properties

Chi Zhang, Zhijun Yang, Nghia Tuan Duong, Xiaohui Li, Yusuke Nishiyama, Qiang Wu, Rongchun Zhang*, Pingchuan Sun*

Issue 12

•Size-Based Characterization of Polysaccharides by Taylor Dispersion Analysis with Photochemical Oxidation or Backscattering Interferometry Detections

Laurent Leclercq*, Phoonthawee Saetear,Agnès Rolland-Sabaté,Jean-Philippe Biron,Joseph Chamieh,Luca Cipelletti, Darryl J. Bornhop, Hervé Cottet*

•Modeling Unentangled Polystyrene Melts in Fast Elongational Flows

Giovanni Ianniruberto*, Antonio Brasiello, Giuseppe Marrucci

Issue 9

•Eco-Friendly, Self-Healing Hydrogels for Adhesive and Elastic Strain Sensors, A Self-Healing and Highly Stretchable Polyelectrolyte Hydrogel via Cooperative Hydrogen Bonding as a Superabsorbent Polymer

Esra Su, Mine Yurtsever, Oguz Okay*

•Silane Based Redox Initiating Systems: Toward a Safer Amine-Free, Peroxide-Free, and Metal-Free Approach

Dengxia Wang, Patxi Garra, Florian Szillat, Jean Pierre Fouassier, Jacques Lalevée*

•Impact of the Pendant Group on the Chain Conformation and Bulk Properties of Norbornene Imide-Based Polymers

Bret M. Boyle, Ozge Heinz, Garret M. Miyake*, Yifu Ding*

Issue 8

•Preparation of Supramolecular Ionic Liquid Gels Based on Host–Guest Interactions and Their Swelling and Ionic Conductive Properties

Garry Sinawang, Yuichiro Kobayashi, Yongtai Zheng, Yoshinori Takashima*, Akira Harada*, Hiroyasu Yamaguchi*

•Highly Tough, Stretchable, Self-Healing, and Recyclable Hydrogels Reinforced by in Situ-Formed Polyelectrolyte Complex Nanoparticles

Tao Yuan, Xinming Cui, Xiaokong Liu, Xinxin Qu, Junqi Sun*

Issue 5

•Diffusion Behavior of Water Molecules in Hydrogels with Controlled Network Structure

Takeshi Fujiyabu, Xiang Li, Ung-il Chung, and Takamasa Sakai

•Control of Dynamics in Polyelectrolyte Complexes by Temperature and Salt

Mo Yang, Jianbing Shi, and Joseph B. Schlenoff

•Can Polymer Chains Cross Each Other and Still Be Entangled?

Rakwoo Chang, and Arun Yethiraj

Issue 4

•Toward Electrochemically Mediated Reversible Addition–Fragmentation Chain-Transfer (eRAFT) Polymerization: Can Propagating Radicals Be Efficiently Electrogenerated from RAFT Agents?

Francesca Lorandi, Marco Fantin, Sivaprakash Shanmugam, Yi Wang, Abdirisak A. Isse, Armando Gennaro, and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

•Rapid Oxygen Tolerant Aqueous RAFT Photopolymerization in Continuous Flow Reactors

Neomy Zaquen, Ak M. N. B. P. H. A. Kadir, Afiq Iasa, Nathaniel Corrigan, Tanja Junkers, Per B. Zetterlund, and Cyrille Boyer

•Revisiting the Elasticity Theory for Real Gaussian Phantom Networks

Tzyy-Shyang Lin, Rui Wang, Jeremiah A. Johnson, and Bradley D. Olsen

•Impact of Macromolecular Crowding and Compression on Protein–Protein Interactions and Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation Phenomena

Karin Julius, Jonathan Weine, Mimi Gao, Jan Latarius, Mirko Elbers, Michael Paulus, Metin Tolan, and Roland Winter

•Hierarchical Assemblies of Dendrimers Embedded in Networks of Lanthanide-Based Supramolecular Polyelectrolytes

Jianan Huang, Jiahua Wang, Peng Ding, Wenjuan Zhou, Lei Liu, Xuhong Guo, Martien A. Cohen Stuart, and Junyou Wang

Issue 3

•Tuning Hydrogel Mechanics by Kinetically Dependent Cross-Linking

Xiaofeng Yu, Zezhao Qin, Haiyang Wu, Hongying Lv, and Xiaoniu Yang

•Structural and Dimensional Transformations between Covalent Organic Frameworks via Linker Exchange

Zhen Li, Xuesong Ding, Yiyu Feng, Wei Feng, and Bao-Hang Han

•The Role of Hydrogen Bonding in Peptoid-Based Marine Antifouling Coatings

Mikayla E. Barry, Emily C. Davidson, Chengcheng Zhang, Anastasia L. Patterson, Beihang Yu, Amanda K. Leonardi, Nilay Duzen, Ketaki Malaviya, Jessica L. Clarke, John A. Finlay, Anthony S. Clare, Zhan Chen, Christopher K. Ober, and Rachel A. Segalman

•Unraveling Dynamics of Entangled Polymers in Strong Extensional Flows

Soroush Moghadam, Indranil Saha Dalal, and Ronald G. Larson

Issue 2

Porous Polystyrene Monoliths Prepared from in Situ Simultaneous Interpenetrating Polymer Networks: Modulation of Morphology by Polymerization Kinetics

Petra Utroša, Ema Žagar, Sebastijan Kovačič, and David Pahovnik

Impact of Hydration and Sulfonation on the Morphology and Ionic Conductivity of Sulfonated Poly(phenylene) Proton Exchange Membranes

Eric G. Sorte, Benjamin A. Paren, Christina G. Rodriguez, Cy Fujimoto, Cassandria Poirier, Lauren J. Abbott, Nathaniel A. Lynd, Karen I. Winey, Amalie L. Frischknecht, and Todd M. Alam

From Polymerizable Ionic Liquids to Poly(ionic liquid)s: Structure-Dependent Thermal, Crystalline, Conductivity, and Solution Thermoresponsive Behaviors

Yajnaseni Biswas, Palash Banerjee, and Tarun K. Mandal

Tuning Hydrogel Mechanics by Kinetically Dependent Cross-Linking

Xiaofeng Yu, Zezhao Qin, Haiyang Wu, Hongying Lv, and Xiaoniu Yang

Phase Separation and Self-Assembly in Vitrimers: Hierarchical Morphology of Molten and Semicrystalline Polyethylene/Dioxaborolane Maleimide Systems

Ralm G. Ricarte, François Tournilhac, and Ludwik Leibler

Photo-Cross-Linkable Coumarin-Based Poly(ε-caprolactone) for Light-Controlled Design and Reconfiguration of Shape-Memory Polymer Networks

Thomas Defize, Jean-Michel Thomassin, Heidi Ottevaere, Cédric Malherbe, Gauthier Eppe, Rachid Jellali, Michaël Alexandre, Christine Jérôme, and Raphaël Riva

Investigation of Secondary Amine-Derived Aminal Bond Exchange toward the Development of Covalent Adaptable Networks

Albert Chao, and Donghui Zhang

Determining the Regimes of Dielectric Mismatch and Ionic Correlation Effects in Ionomer Blends

Ha-Kyung Kwon, Boran Ma, and Monica Olvera de la Cruz

Configurationally Constrained Crystallization of Brush Polymers with Poly(ethylene oxide) Side Chains

Huilou Sun, Duk Man Yu, Shaowei Shi, Qingqing Yuan, So Fujinami, Xiaoli Sun, Dong Wang, and Thomas P. Russell

Swelling and Inflation in Polyelectrolyte Complexes

Hadi M. Fares, Qifeng Wang, Mo Yang, and Joseph B. Schlenoff

Charge Transport in Imidazolium-Based Homo- and Triblock Poly(ionic liquid)s

Emmanuel U. Mapesa, Mingtao Chen, Maximilian F. Heres, Matthew A. Harris, Thomas Kinsey, Yangyang Wang, Timothy E. Long, Bradley S. Lokitz, and Joshua R. Sangoro

Disassociation and Reformation Under Strain in Polymer with Dynamic Metal–Ligand Coordination Cross-Linking

Qiuhong Zhang, Xiangyang Zhu, Cheng-Hui Li, Yifeng Cai, Xudong Jia, and Zhenan Bao

Issue 1

Ion Transport in Polymerized Ionic Liquid–Ionic Liquid Blends

Santosh Mogurampelly, and Venkat Ganesan

Polycation–PEG Block Copolymer Undergoes Stepwise Phase Separation in Aqueous Triflate SolutionVikram Baddam, Vladimir Aseyev, Sami Hietala, Erno Karjalainen, and Heikki Tenhu

Developing Local Order Parameters for Order–Disorder Transitions From Particles to Block Copolymers: Methodological FrameworkAnkita J. Mukhtyar, and Fernando A. Escobedo

Developing Local Order Parameters for Order–Disorder Transitions From Particles to Block Copolymers: Application to Macromolecular SystemsAnkita J. Mukhtyar, and Fernando A. Escobedo

Interfacial and Bulk Water in Ultrathin Films of Nafion, 3M PFSA, and 3M PFIA Ionomers on a Polycrystalline Platinum SurfaceUdit N. Shrivastava, Helmut Fritzsche, and Kunal Karan

Sol–Gel Preparation of Initiator Layers for Surface-Initiated ATRP: Large-Scale Formation of Polymer Brushes Is Not a DreamTomoya Sato, Gary J. Dunderdale, Chihiro Urata, and Atsushi Hozumi

Influence of Al₂O₃ Nanowires on Ion Transport in Nanocomposite Solid Polymer ElectrolytesSuk Jin Kwon, Byung Mun Jung, Taehoon Kim, Jinho Byun, Jaekwang Lee, Sang Bok Lee, and U Hyeok Choi

November 2018

Salt-Induced Thermoresponsivity of a Cationic Phosphazene Polymer in Aqueous Solutions

Tatiana V. Burova, Valerij Y. Grinberg, Natalia V. Grinberg, Alexander S. Dubovik, Alexander P. Moskalets, Vladimir S. Papkov, and Alexei R. Khokhlov

A Tough and Stiff Hydrogel with Tunable Water Content and Mechanical Properties Based on the Synergistic Effect of Hydrogen Bonding and Hydrophobic Interaction

Xin Ning Zhang, Yan Jie Wang, Shengtong Sun, Lei Hou, Peiyi Wu, Zi Liang Wu, and Qiang Zheng

Identifying the Role of Primary and Secondary Interactions on the Mechanical Properties and Healing of Densely Branched Polyimides

Arijana Susa, Anton Mordvinkin, Kay Saalwächter, Sybrand van der Zwaag, and Santiago J. Garcia

Order–Order Transition from Ordered Bicontinuous Double Diamond to Hexagonally Packed Cylinders in Stereoregular Diblock Copolymer/Homopolymer Blends

Che-Yi Chu, Rou-Yuan Pei, and Hsin-Lung Chen

Fundamental Limitations of Ionic Conductivity in Polymerized Ionic Liquids

Eric W. Stacy, Catalin P. Gainaru, Mallory Gobet, Zaneta Wojnarowska, Vera Bocharova, Steven G. Greenbaum, and Alexei P. Sokolov

Reversible Shape Memory Polymer from Semicrystalline Poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) with Dynamic Covalent Polymer Networks

Yuan Gao, Weifeng Liu, and Shiping Zhu

October 2018

Solvation and Entropic Regimes in Ion-Containing Block Copolymers

Kevin J. Hou, and Jian Qin

Intrinsic Viscosities of Polymer Blends: Sensitive Probes of Specific Interactions between the Counterions of Polyelectrolytes and Uncharged MacromoleculesMaria Bercea, and Bernhard A. Wolf

Progression of the Morphology in Random Ionomers Containing Bulky Ammonium Counterions

Joshua S. Enokida, Vijesh A. Tanna, H. Henning Winter, and E. Bryan Coughlin

July 2018

Elucidating the Effects of Metal Complexation on Morphological and Rheological Properties of Polymer Solutions by a Dissipative Particle Dynamics Model

Kolattukudy P. Santo, Aleksey Vishnyakov, Ravish Kumar, and Alexander V. Neimark

Control of Gelation and Network Properties of Cationically Copolymerized Mono- and Diglycidyl Ethers

Thomas Vidil, Michel Cloître, and Francois Tournilhac

Microphase-Separated Morphologies and Molecular Network Topologies in Multiblock Copolymer Gels

Mohammad O. Tuhin, Justin J. Ryan, J. David Sadler, Zexiang Han, Byeongdu Lee, Steven D. Smith, Melissa A. Pasquinelli, and Richard J. Spontak

Multistimuli-Responsive Intrinsic Self-Healing Epoxy Resin Constructed by Host–Guest Interactions

Zhen Hu, Dayu Zhang, Fei Lu, Weihao Yuan, Xirong Xu, Qian Zhang, Hu Liu, Qian Shao, Zhanhu Guo, and Yudong Huang

Counterion Cloud Expansion of a Polyelectrolyte by Dilution

Kaikai Zheng, Kuo Chen, Weibin Ren, Jingfa Yang, and Jiang Zhao

Electrostatically Tuned Microdomain Morphology and Phase-Dependent Ion Transport Anisotropy in Single-Ion Conducting Block Copolyelectrolytes

Chenxi Zhai, Huanhuan Zhou, Teng Gao, Lingling Zhao, and Shangchao Lin

Molecular Design of Highly Stretchable Ionomers

Shilong WuXiao Cao, Zhijie Zhang, Quan Chen, Yumi Matsumiya, and Hiroshi Watanabe

Selective Molecular Transport in Thermoresponsive Polymer Membranes: Role of Nanoscale Hydration and Fluctuations

Matej Kanduč, Won Kyu Kim, Rafael Roa, and Joachim Dzubiella

June 2018

Functional Polyethylenes with Precisely Placed Thioethers and Sulfoniums through Thiol–Ene Polymerization

Michael T. Kwasny, Carolyn M. Watkins, Nicholas D. Posey, Megan E. Matta, and Gregory N. Tew

Morphology Transitions of Linear A₁B₁A₂B₂ Tetrablock Copolymers at Symmetric Overall Volume Fraction

Seonghyeon AhnJin Kon Kim, Bin Zhao, Chao Duan, and Weihua Li

Alternating Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (AROMP) of Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Monomers Provides Oligomers with Side-Chain Sequence Control

Guofang Li, and Nicole S. Sampson

Stochastic Modeling of Degradation Behavior of Hydrogels

Ghodsiehsadat Jahanmir, Mohammad J. Abdekhodaie, and Ying Chau

Stabilizing the Ordered Bicontinuous Double Diamond Structure of Diblock Copolymer by Configurational Regularity

Chih-Hsuan Lin, Takeshi Higuchi, Hsin-Lung Chen, Jing-Cherng Tsai, Hiroshi Jinnai, and Takeji Hashimoto

Introducing Large Counteranions Enhances the Elastic Modulus of Imidazolium-Based Polymerized Ionic Liquids

Atsushi Matsumoto, Ciprian Iacob, Takeru Noda, Osamu Urakawa, James Runt, and Tadashi Inoue

A Vinyl Ether-Functional Polycarbonate as a Template for Multiple Postpolymerization Modifications

Sangho Cho, Gyu Seong Heo, Sarosh Khan, Jessica Huang, David A. Hunstad, Mahmoud Elsabahy, and Karen L. Wooley

Water Uptake Study of Anion Exchange Membranes

Yiwei Zheng, Uri Ash, Ravi P. Pandey, Amobi G. Ozioko, Julia Ponce-González, Michael Handl, Thomas Weissbach, John R. Varcoe, Steven Holdcroft, Matthew W. Liberatore, Renate Hiesgen, and Dario R. Deke

Structurally Well-Defined Anion Conductive Aromatic Copolymers: Effect of the Side-Chain Length

Ryo Akiyama, Naoki Yokota, Kanji Otsuji, and Kenji Miyatake

Ion Transport and Interfacial Dynamics in Disordered Block Copolymers of Ammonium-Based Polymerized Ionic Liquids

Matthew A. Harris, Maximilian F. Heres, Jonathan Coote, André Wenda, Veronika Strehmel, Gila E. Stein, and Joshua Sangoro

Segmented Thermoplastic Polymers Synthesized by Thiol–Ene Click Chemistry: Examples of Thiol–Norbornene and Thiol–Maleimide Click Reactions

Kailong Jin, Emily K. Leitsch, Xi Chen, William H. Heath, and John M. Torkelso

Confinement Effect on Strain Localizations in Glassy Polymer Films

R. Konane Bay, Shinichiro Shimomura, Yujie Liu, Mark Ilton, and Alfred J. Crosby

April 2018

Highly Active Organic Lewis Pairs for the Copolymerization of Epoxides with Cyclic Anhydrides: Metal-Free Access to Well-Defined Aliphatic Polyesters

Lan-Fang Hu, Cheng-Jian Zhang, Hai-Lin Wu, Jia-Liang Yang, Bin Liu, Han-Yi Duan, and Xing-Hong Zhang

Synthesis of Alkaline Anion Exchange Membranes with Chemically Stable Imidazolium Cations: Unexpected Cross-Linked Macrocycles from Ring-Fused ROMP Monomers

Wei You, Kristina M. Hugar, and Geoffrey W. Coates

Engineering the Mechanical Behavior of Polymer Networks with Flexible Self-Assembled V-Shaped Monomers

Noy Cohen, Omar A. Saleh, and Robert M. McMeeking

Optimizing Ion Transport in Polyether-Based Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries

Qi Zheng, Danielle M. Pesko, Brett M. Savoie, Ksenia Timachova, Alexandra L. Hasan, Mackensie C. Smith, Thomas F. Miller III, Geoffrey W. Coates, and Nitash P. Balsara

Synthesis, Thermal Properties, and Morphologies of Amphiphilic Brush Block Copolymers with Tacticity-Controlled Polyether Main Chain

Takuya Isono, Hoyeol Lee, Kana Miyachi, Yusuke Satoh, Toyoji Kakuchi, Moonhor Ree, and Toshifumi Satoh

Phase Behavior and Salt Partitioning in Polyelectrolyte Complex Coacervates

Lu Li, Samanvaya Srivastava, Marat Andreev, Amanda B. Marciel, Juan J. de Pablo, and Matthew V. Tirrell

Linear Viscoelasticity and Cation Conduction in Polyurethane Sulfonate Ionomers with Ions in the Soft Segment–Single Phase Systems

Shih-Wa Wang, and Ralph H. Colby

Linear Viscoelasticity and Cation Conduction in Polyurethane Sulfonate Ionomers with Ions in the Soft Segment–Multiphase Systems

Shih-Wa Wang, and Ralph H. Colby

Compressing and Swelling To Study the Structure of Extremely Soft Bottlebrush Networks Prepared by ROMP

Joel M. Sarapas, Edwin P. Chan, Emma M. Rettner, and Kathryn L. Beers

Photonic Resins: Designing Optical Appearance via Block Copolymer Self-Assembly

Dong-Po Song, Gianni Jacucci, Feyza Dundar, Aditi Naik, Hua-Feng Fei, Silvia Vignolini, and James J. Watkins

Selective Initiation from Unprotected Aminoalcohols for the N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Organocatalyzed Ring-Opening Polymerization of 2-Methyl-N-tosyl Aziridine: Telechelic and Block Copolymer Synthesis

Camille Bakkali-Hassani, Clément Coutouly, Tassilo Gleede, Joan Vignolle, Frederik R. Wurm, Stéphane Carlotti, and Daniel Taton

Leveraging Molecular Architecture To Design New, All-Polymer Solid Electrolytes with Simultaneous Enhancement in Modulus and Ionic Conductivity

Emmanouil Glynos, Paraskevi Petropoulou, Emmanouil Mygiakis, Alkmini D. Nega, Wenyang Pan, Lampros Papoutsakis, Emmanuel P. Giannelis, Georgios Sakellariou, and Spiros H. Anastasiadis

Tunability of Free Volume and Viscoelastic Damping of Thiol–Ene Networks Deep in the Glassy State

Mitchell Anthamatten, Sean W. O’Neill, Dezhi Liu, Tyler M. Wheler, Richard S. Vallery, and David W. Gidley

March 2018

Tuning the Morphology of an Acrylate-Based Metallo-Supramolecular Network: From Vesicles to Cylinders

Alice M. Savage, Scott D. Walck, Robert H. Lambeth and Frederick L. Beyer

Chain Network: Key to the Ductile Behavior of Polymer Glasses

Zhuonan Liu, Xiaoxiao Li, Yexin Zheng, Shi-Qing Wang and Mesfin Tsige

Ion Transport in Cyclopropenium-Based Polymerized Ionic Liquids

Philip J. Griffin, Jessica L. Freyer, Nicholas Han, Noah Geller, Xiaodong Yin, Chirag D. Gheewala, Tristan H. Lambert, Luis M. Campos and Karen I. Winey

Polyelectrolyte Chain Structure and Solution Phase Behavior

Kevin Shen and Zhen-Gang Wang

Correlations between Salt-Induced Crystallization, Morphology, Segmental Dynamics, and Conductivity in Amorphous Block Copolymer Electrolytes

Jacob L. Thelen, Andrew A. Wang, X. Chelsea Chen, Xi Jiang, Eric Schaible and Nitash P. Balsara

Demystifying the Mechanism of Regio- and Isoselective Epoxide Polymerization Using the Vandenberg Catalyst

Robert C. Ferrier Jr., Srimanta Pakhira, Sarah E. Palmon, Christina G. Rodriguez, David J. Goldfeld, Oluwagbenga O. Iyiola, Malgorzata Chwatko, Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes and Nathaniel A. Lynd

Ion Distribution in Microphase-Separated Copolymers with Periodic Dielectric Permittivity

Weiwei Chu, Jian Qin and Juan J. de Pablo

Ion Transport in Dynamic Polymer Networks Based on Metal–Ligand Coordination: Effect of Cross-Linker Concentration

Gabriel E. Sanoja, Nicole S. Schauser, Joshua M. Bartels, Christopher M. Evans, Matthew E. Helgeson, Ram Seshadri and Rachel A. Segalman

Recyclable Telechelic Cross-Linked Polybutadiene Based on Reversible Diels–Alder Chemistry

Pierre Berto, Axel Pointet, Cédric Le Coz, Stéphane Grelier, and Frédéric Peruch

Precision Synthesis of Polylactide-Based Thermoresponsive Block Copolymers via Successive Living Cationic Polymerization of Vinyl Ether and Ring-Opening Polymerization of Lactide

Yukiko Seki, Arihiro Kanazawa, Shokyoku Kanaoka, Tomoko Fujiwara, and Sadahito Aoshima

Synthesis and Morphology Study of SEBS Triblock Copolymers Functionalized with Sulfonate and Phosphonate Groups for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

Bhagyashree Date, Junyoung Han, Sungmin Park, Eun Joo Park, Dongwon Shin, Chang Y. Ryu, and Chulsung Bae

Morphological Behavior of A₂B Block Copolymers in Thin Films

Hyeyoung Kim, Beom-Goo Kang, Jaewon Choi, Zhiwei Sun, Duk Man Yu, Jimmy Mays, and Thomas P. Russell

January 2018

Quantitative Comparison of Atomistic Simulations with Experiment for a Cross-Linked Epoxy: A Specific Volume–Cooling Rate Analysis

Ketan S. Khare and Frederick R. Phelan Jr.

Phase Behavior of Binary Polymer Blends Doped with Salt

Shuyi Xie and Timothy P. Lodge

The Order–Disorder Transition in Graft Block Copolymers

Michael J. Maher, Seamus D. Jones, Aristotelis Zografos, Jun Xu, Haley J. Schibur, and Frank S. Bates

Self-Consistent Field Lattice Model for Polymer Networks

Nicholas B. Tito, Cornelis Storm, and Wouter G. Ellenbroek

Influence of Charge Density on Host–Guest Interactions within Amphiphilic Polymer Assemblies in Apolar Media

Bo Zhao, Jiaming Zhuang, Mahalia A. C. Serrano, Richard W. Vachet, and S. Thayumanavan

How the Complex Interplay between Different Blocks Determines the Isothermal Crystallization Kinetics of Triple-Crystalline PEO-b-PCL-b-PLLA Triblock Terpolymers

Jordana K. Palacios, Junpeng Zhao, Nikos Hadjichristidis, and Alejandro J. Müller

Yield Stress Enhancement in Polyethylene–Glassy Diblock Copolymers

William D. Mulhearn and Richard A. Register

50th Anniversary Perspective: A Perspective on Polyelectrolyte Solutions

M. Muthukumar

December 2017

Well-Defined Multi-Amino-Functional and Stimuli-Responsive Poly(propylene oxide) by Crown Ether Assisted Anionic Ring-Opening Polymerization

Jan Blankenburg, Manfred Wagner, and Holger Frey

Decoupling Mechanical and Conductive Dynamics of Polymeric Ionic Liquids via a Trivalent Anion Additive

Joshua Bartels, Gabriel E. Sanoja, Christopher M. Evans, Rachel A. Segalman, and Matthew E. Helgeson

Transverse Orientation of Acid Layers in the Crystallites of a Precise Polymer

Edward B. Trigg, L. Robert Middleton, Demi E. Moed, and Karen I. Winey

Microphase-Separated Thiol–Ene Conetworks from Telechelic Macromonomers with Asymmetric Molecular Weights

Kelly R. McLeod and Gregory N. Tew

Diffusion of Polyelectrolytes in Polyelectrolyte Gels

Anand Rahalkar and Murugappan Muthukumar

Random Copolycarbonates Based on a Renewable Bicyclic Diol Derived from Citric Acid

Xiaohan Liu, Chengcai Pang, Jianbiao Ma, and Hui Gao

Do Physically Trapped Polymer Chains Contribute to the Mechanical Response of a Host Double-Network Hydrogel under Finite Tensile Deformation?

S. Shams Es-haghi and R. A. Weiss

Dependence of Morphology, Shear Modulus, and Conductivity on the Composition of Lithiated and Magnesiated Single-Ion-Conducting Block Copolymer Electrolytes

Adriana A. Rojas, Kanav Thakker, Kyle D. McEntush, Sebnem Inceoglu, Gregory M. Stone, and Nitash P. Balsara

October 2017

50th Anniversary Perspective: Living Polymerization—Emphasizing the Molecule in Macromolecules

Robert B. Grubbs and Robert H. Grubbs

Realizing 5.4 nm Full Pitch Lamellar Microdomains by a Solid-State Transformation

Gajin Jeong, Duk Man Yu, Jose Kenneth D. Mapas, Zhiwei Sun, Javid Rzayev, and Thomas P. Russell

Domain Spacing and Composition Profile Behavior in Salt-Doped Cyclic vs Linear Block Polymer Thin Films: A Joint Experimental and Simulation Study

Thomas E. Gartner III, Tomohiro Kubo, Youngmi Seo, Maxym Tansky, Lisa M. Hall, Brent S. Sumerlin, and Thomas H. Epps III

Trilayered Morphology of an ABC Triple Crystalline Triblock Terpolymer

Jordana K. Palacios, Agnieszka Tercjak, Guoming Liu, Dujin Wang, Junpeng Zhao, Nikos Hadjichristidis, and Alejandro J. Müller

Self-Assembly of Mixtures of Telechelic and Monofunctional Amphiphilic Polymers in Water: From Clusters to Flowerlike Micelles

Thomas Zinn, Lutz Willner, Kenneth D. Knudsen, and Reidar Lund

Evolution of Microphase Separation with Variations of Segments of Sequence-Controlled Multiblock Copolymers

Junliang Zhang, Robert Deubler, Matthias Hartlieb, Liam Martin, Joji Tanaka, Elena Patyukova, Paul D. Topham, Felix H. Schacher, and Sébastien Perrier

Silane–Acrylate Chemistry for Regulating Network Formation in Radical Photopolymerization

Johannes Steindl, Thomas Koch, Norbert Moszner, and Christian Gorsche

Perylene Diimide-Based Ionene and Zwitterionic Polymers: Synthesis and Solution Photophysical Properties

Marcus D. Cole, Madhu Sheri, Chelsea Bielicki, and Todd Emrick

Dynamic π-Conjugated Polymer Ionic Networks

Shekhar Shinde, Jenna L. Sartucci, Dorothy K. Jones, and Nagarjuna Gavvalapalli

Deformation Behavior and Failure of Bimodal Networks

Natasha Kamerlin and Christer Elvingson

pH-Ionizable in Situ Gelling Poly(oligo ethylene glycol methacrylate)-Based Hydrogels: The Role of Internal Network Structures in Controlling Macroscopic Properties

Emilia Bakaic, Niels M. B. Smeets, Owen Barrigar, Richard Alsop, Maikel C. Rheinstädter, and Todd Hoare

September 2017

Chain Exchange Kinetics of Asymmetric B₁AB₂ Linear Triblock and AB₁B₂ Branched Triblock Copolymers

Andrew J. Peters and Timothy P. Lodge

An Approach to the High-Throughput Fabrication of Glycopolymer Microarrays through Thiol–Ene Chemistry

Kevin Neumann, Antonio Conde-González, Matthew Owens, Andrea Venturato, Yichuan Zhang, Jin Geng, and Mark Bradley

Triblock Copolymer Elastomers with Enhanced Mechanical Properties Synthesized by RAFT Polymerization and Subsequent Quaternization through Incorporation of a Comonomer with Imidazole Groups of about 2.0 Mass Percentage

Feng Jiang, Chu Fang, Juan Zhang, Wentao Wang, and Zhigang Wang

Fusing Light-Induced Step-Growth Processes with RAFT Chemistry for Segmented Copolymer Synthesis: A Synergetic Experimental and Kinetic Modeling Study

Thomas Gegenhuber, Lies De Keer, Anja S. Goldmann, Paul H. M. Van Steenberge, Jan O. Mueller, Marie-Françoise Reyniers, Jan P. Menzel, Dagmar R. D’hooge, and Christopher Barner-Kowollik

Cationic Terpolymerization of Vinyl Ethers, Oxetane, and Ketones via Concurrent Vinyl-Addition, Ring-Opening, and Carbonyl-Addition Mechanisms: Multiblock Polymer Synthesis and Mechanistic Investigation

Arihiro Kanazawa and Sadahito Aoshima

Surface Interaction Parameter Measurement of Solvated Polymers via Model End-Tethered Chains

Richard J. Sheridan, Sara V. Orski, Ronald L. Jones, Sushil K. Satija, and Kathryn L. Beers

August 2017

Micellization/Demicellization Self-Assembly Change of ABA Triblock Copolymers Induced by a Photoswitchable Ionic Liquid with a Small Molecular Trigger

Caihong Wang, Kei Hashimoto, Jiaheng Zhang, Yumi Kobayashi, Hisashi Kokubo, and Masayoshi Watanabe

Bottom-Up Fabrication of Nanostructured Bicontinuous and Hexagonal Ion-Conducting Polymer Membranes

Jaime J. Hernandez, Heng Zhang, Ying Chen, Martin Rosenthal, Mark D. Lingwood, Mithun Goswami, Xiaomin Zhu, Martin Moeller, Louis A. Madsen, and Dimitri A. Ivanov

Tricontinuous Double Diamond Network Structure from Binary Blends of ABC Triblock Terpolymers

Yusuke Asai, Jiro Suzuki, Yoshitaka Aoyama, Hideo Nishioka, Atsushi Takano, and Yushu Matsushita

Modeling of the Degradation of Poly(ethylene glycol)-co-(lactic acid)-dimethacrylate Hydrogels

Vincent E. G. Diederich, Thomas Villiger, Giuseppe Storti, and Marco Lattuada

Movable Cross-Linked Polymeric Materials from Bulk Polymerization of Reactive Polyrotaxane Cross-Linker with Acrylate Monomers

Kohei Koyanagi, Yoshinori Takashima, Hiroyasu Yamaguchi, and Akira Harada

Self-Accelerating Click Reaction in Step Polymerization

Ji-Qiang Chen, Lue Xiang, Xianfeng Liu, Xueping Liu, and Ke Zhang

April 2017

Self-Accelerating Click Reaction for Cyclic Polymer

Peng Sun, Jiqiang Chen, Jian’an Liu, and Ke Zhang

Strain Hardening Behavior of Poly(vinyl alcohol)/Borate Hydrogels

Gang Huang, Huanhuan Zhang, Yulin Liu, Haijian Chang, Hongwei Zhang, Hongzan Song, Donghua Xu, and Tongfei Shi

Vanillin-Derived High-Performance Flame Retardant Epoxy Resins: Facile Synthesis and Properties

Sheng Wang, Songqi Ma, Chenxiang Xu, Yuan Liu, Jinyue Dai, Zongbao Wang, Xiaoqing Liu, Jing Chen, Xiaobin Shen, Jingjing Wei, and Jin Zhu

Ionic Conduction in Poly(ethylene glycol)-Functionalized Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene Amphiphiles

Achilleas Pipertzis, George Zardalidis, Katrin Wunderlich, Markus Klapper, Klaus Müllen, and George Floudas

Mechanically Robust Anion Exchange Membranes via Long Hydrophilic Cross-Linkers

Liang Zhu, Tawanda J. Zimudzi, Ying Wang, Xuedi Yu, Jing Pan, Juanjuan Han, Douglas I. Kushner, Lin Zhuang, and Michael A. Hickner

Dual-Gated Supramolecular Star Polymers in Aqueous Solution

Bernhard V. K. J. Schmidt, Dennis Kugele, Jonas von Irmer, Jan Steinkoenig, Hatice Mutlu, Christian Rüttiger, Craig J. Hawker, Markus Gallei, and Christopher Barner-Kowollik

Physical Networks of Metal-Ion-Containing Polymer Brushes Show Fully Tunable Swelling, Nanomechanical and Nanotribological Properties

Ella S. Dehghani, Vikrant V. Naik, Joydeb Mandal, Nicholas D. Spencer, and Edmondo M. Benetti

February 2017

Expanding the ROMP Toolbox: Synthesis of Air-Stable Benzonorbornadiene Polymers by Aryne Chemistry

Jose M. MedinaJeong Hoon KoHeather D. MaynardNeil K. Garg

Dynamics of Dual Networks: Strain Rate and Temperature Effects in Hydrogels with Reversible H-Bonds

Xiaobo HuJing ZhouWilliam F. M. DanielMohammad Vatankhah-VarnoosfaderaniAndrey V. Dobryninand Sergei S. Sheiko

Radical Mediated Thiol-Ene Emulsion Polymerizations

Olivia Z. DurhamDana V. ChapmanSitaraman Krishnanand Devon A. Shipp

Insights into the Vulcanization Mechanism through a Simple and Facile Approach to the Sulfur Cleavage Behavior

Qingsong LianYan LiKai LiJue ChengJunying Zhang

A Study on Physical Properties of Cyclic Poly(vinyl ether)s Synthesized via Ring-Expansion Cationic Polymerization

Hajime KammiyadaMakoto OuchiMitsuo Sawamoto

Understanding the Effect of Metal Centers on Charge Transport and Delocalization in Conducting Metallopolymers

Minh T. NguyenRichard A. JonesBradley J. Holliday

January 2017

Mechanistic Kinetic Modeling of Thiol–Michael Addition Photopolymerizations via Photocaged “Superbase” Generators: An Analytical Approach

Mauro ClaudinoXinpeng ZhangMarvin D. AlimMaciej Podgórskiand Christopher N. Bowman

How the Polymerization Procedures Affect the Morphology of the Block Copolymer Nanoassemblies: Comparison between Dispersion RAFT Polymerization and Seeded RAFT Polymerization

Heng ZhouChonggao LiuYaqing QuChengqiang GaoKeyu Shiand Wangqing Zhang

Engineering Elasticity and Relaxation Time in Metal-Coordinate Cross-Linked Hydrogels

Scott C. GrindyMartin Lenzand Niels Holten-Andersen

Rediscovering Silicones: MQ Copolymers

Daniel H. FlaggThomas J. McCarthy

Electrochemical Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization in Miniemulsion with a Dual Catalytic System

Marco FantinSangwoo ParkYi Wangand Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

Controlled Preparation of Well-Defined Mesoporous Carbon/Polymer Hybrids via Surface-Initiated ICAR ATRP with a High Dilution Strategy Assisted by Facile Polydopamine Chemistry

Yang SongGang YeZongyu WangMaciej KopećGuojun XieRui YuanJing ChenTomasz KowalewskiJianchen Wangand Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

Fabrication of Tough Hydrogels from Chemically Cross-Linked Multiple Neutral Networks

S. Shams Es-haghiR. A. Weiss

Design of Graft Block Polymer Thermoplastics

Jiuyang ZhangDeborah K. SchneidermanTuoqi LiMarc A. Hillmyerand Frank S. Bates

Relaxation Processes in Supramolecular Metallogels Based on Histidine–Nickel Coordination Bonds

Shengchang TangBradley D. Olsen

Ionic Conductivity in Polyelectrolyte Hydrogels

Honghao LiAykut ErbaşJos Zwanikkenand Monica Olvera de la Cruz

Metal-Coordination Complexes Mediated Physical Hydrogels with High Toughness, Stick–Slip Tearing Behavior, and Good Processability

Si Yu ZhengHongyao DingJin QianJun YinZi Liang WuYihu SongQiang Zheng

January 2015

Synthesis and Characterization of Polysulfone-Containing Poly(butylene terephthalate) Segmented Block Copolymers

Joseph M. Dennis, Gregory B. Fahs, Robert B. Moore, S. Richard Turner, and Timothy E. Long

One-Pot Synthesis of Poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) Copolymers via Ruthenium Catalyzed Equilibrium Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of Hydroxyl Functionalized Cyclopentene

Robert Tuba, Mohammed Al-Hashimi, Hassan S. Bazzi, and Robert H. Grubbs

Disassembly of Block Copolymer Vesicles into Nanospheres through Vesicle Mediated RAFT Polymerization

Fei Huo, Shentong Li, Xin He, Sayyar Ali Shah, Quanlong Li, and Wangqing Zhang

Efficient Route to Compact Single-Chain Nanoparticles: Photoactivated Synthesis via Thiol–Yne Coupling Reaction

Irma Perez-Baena, Isabel Asenjo-Sanz, Arantxa Arbe, Angel J. Moreno, Federica Lo Verso, Juan Colmenero, and José A. Pomposo

Influence of Ionic Species on the Microphase Separation Behavior of PCL-b-PEO/Salt Hybrids

Jie Huang, Rui-Yang Wang, Zai-Zai Tong, Jun-Ting Xu, and Zhi-Qiang Fan

Construction and Properties of Hyperbranched Block Copolymer with Independently Adjustable Heterosubchains

Jinxian Yang, Lianwei Li, Zongyang Jing, Xiaodong Ye, and Chi Wu

Epitaxial Phase Transition between Double Gyroid and Cylinder Phase in Diblock Copolymer Thin Film

Jueun Jung, Junyoung Lee, Hae-Woong Park, Taihyun Chang, Hidekazu Sugimori, and Hiroshi Jinnai

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Micellar Morphologies of Block Copolymer Solutions near the Sphere/Cylinder Transition

Chya Yan Liaw, Kevin J. Henderson, Wesley R. Burghardt, Jin Wang, and Kenneth R. Shull

RAFT Dispersion Polymerization in Nonpolar Media: Polymerization of 3-Phenylpropyl Methacrylate in n-Tetradecane with Poly(stearyl methacrylate) Homopolymers as Macro Chain Transfer Agents

Yiwen Pei, Luckshen Thurairajah, Odilia R. Sugita, and Andrew B. Lowe

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