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Sorina PO, Victorov AI. Local Structure of Nonuniform Fluid Mixtures Containing Associating and Chainlike Molecules from a Multilayer Quasichemical Model. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2024; 40:1577-1593. [PMID: 38198683 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c01741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2024]
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In this work, we develop a theory for predicting details of the local structure in nonuniform multicomponent fluids that may contain chainlike and associating components. This theory is an extension─to the fluid interfaces and mesoscopic structures of different geometry─of the multilayer quasichemical model originally proposed by Smirnova to describe liquid solution in the vicinity of a planar solid wall. The basis of the theory is the "cut-and-bond" approach, much in spirit of SAFT, where an infinite attraction between the separated monomeric units of a chainlike molecule mimics the chemical bonds of the chain. We describe the equilibrium structure of the mixture, including the spatial distribution of the monomeric units and the local orientation of the chemical bonds in chainlike molecules, and discuss the contribution of chemical bonds to the local chemical potential in a nonuniform fluid. To test the new theory, we apply it to mixtures containing combinations of model components: a strongly associating solvent, an inert substance of varying chain length, and a chainlike amphiphile. To compare predictions from the multilayer model with the results of continuous description of nonuniform fluids, we also address the square-gradient theory and derive an analytical expression for the influence parameter that takes into account pair correlations in the quasichemical approximation. The multilayer quasichemical model developed in this work predicts formation of aggregates in liquid solution and describes the local structure of the interfaces between the coexisting liquid phases in the mixture. Our theoretical predictions agree on a qualitative level with the accumulated knowledge about the structure of different types of systems studied in this work.
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- Polina O Sorina
- St. Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya nab., 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- St. Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya nab., 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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Lu J, González de Castilla A, Müller S, Xi S, Chapman WG. Dualistic Role of Alcohol in Micelle Formation and Structure from iSAFT Based Density Functional Theory and COSMOplex. Ind Eng Chem Res 2023. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.2c03507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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- Jinxin Lu
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas77005, United States
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- Institute of Thermal Separation Processes, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg21073, Germany
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas77005, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas77005, United States
- Institute of Thermal Separation Processes, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg21073, Germany
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Carro N, Mejía A. Prediction of Micellar Thermodynamics of Nonionic Surfactants Based on the Square Gradient Theory. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2022; 38:14527-14539. [PMID: 36394511 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c00830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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A geometry-dependent contribution based on the square gradient theory of van der Waals is proposed as a predictive modification of the interfacial energy contribution for the micellar thermodynamic theory. The model has an analytic prediction for the spherical and cylindrical geometries. For ellipsoidal geometry, a simple yet physically meaningful approximation is proposed. The critical micelle concentration (CMC) and the surface tension isotherm under the new contribution are compared with the classical theory. The modified model describes qualitatively the available experimental data and the surface isotherm, showing an improvement in the predictions of the CMC.
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- Nicolás Carro
- Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción4030000, Chile
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- Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción4030000, Chile
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Kuperkar K, Patel D, Atanase LI, Bahadur P. Amphiphilic Block Copolymers: Their Structures, and Self-Assembly to Polymeric Micelles and Polymersomes as Drug Delivery Vehicles. Polymers (Basel) 2022; 14:4702. [PMID: 36365696 PMCID: PMC9657626 DOI: 10.3390/polym14214702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2022] [Revised: 10/24/2022] [Accepted: 10/28/2022] [Indexed: 07/26/2023] Open
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Self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers display a multiplicity of nanoscale periodic patterns proposed as a dominant tool for the 'bottom-up' fabrication of nanomaterials with different levels of ordering. The present review article focuses on the recent updates to the self-association of amphiphilic block copolymers in aqueous media into varied core-shell morphologies. We briefly describe the block copolymers, their types, microdomain formation in bulk and micellization in selective solvents. We also discuss the characteristic features of block copolymers nanoaggregates viz., polymer micelles (PMs) and polymersomes. Amphiphilic block copolymers (with a variety of hydrophobic blocks and hydrophilic blocks; often polyethylene oxide) self-assemble in water to micelles/niosomes similar to conventional nonionic surfactants with high drug loading capacity. Double hydrophilic block copolymers (DHBCs) made of neutral block-neutral block or neutral block-charged block can transform one block to become hydrophobic under the influence of a stimulus (physical/chemical/biological), and thus induced amphiphilicity and display self-assembly are discussed. Different kinds of polymer micelles (viz. shell and core-cross-linked, core-shell-corona, schizophrenic, crew cut, Janus) are presented in detail. Updates on polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) and crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA) are also provided. Polyion complexes (PICs) and polyion complex micelles (PICMs) are discussed. Applications of these block copolymeric micelles and polymersomes as nanocarriers in drug delivery systems are described.
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- Ketan Kuperkar
- Department of Chemistry, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Ichchhanath, Surat 395 007, Gujarat, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Ichchhanath, Surat 395 007, Gujarat, India
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- Faculty of Medical Dentistry, “Apollonia” University of Iasi, 700511 Iasi, Romania
- Academy of Romanian Scientists, 050045 Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Chemistry, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University (VNSGU), Surat 395 007, Gujarat, India
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Influence of Interpenetrating Chains on Rigid Domain Dimensions in Siloxane-Based Block-Copolymers. Polymers (Basel) 2022; 14:polym14194048. [PMID: 36235995 PMCID: PMC9572696 DOI: 10.3390/polym14194048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2022] [Revised: 09/20/2022] [Accepted: 09/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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1H spin-diffusion solid-state NMR was utilized to elucidate the domain size in multiblock-copolymers (BCPs) poly-(block poly(dimethylsiloxane)-block ladder-like poly(phenylsiloxane)) and poly-(block poly((3,3′,3″-trifluoropropyl-methyl)siloxane)-block ladder-like poly(phenylsiloxane). It was found that these BCPs form worm-like morphology with rigid cylinders dispersed in amorphous matrix. By using the combination of solid-state NMR techniques such as 13C CP/MAS, 13C direct-polarization MAS and 2D 1H EXSY, it was shown that the main factor which governs the diameter value of these rigid domains is the presence of interpenetrating segments of soft blocks. The presence of such interpenetrating chains leads to an increase of rigid domain diameter.
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Safonova EA, Iakovleva EA, Dobryakov YG, Victorov AI. Molecular Thermodynamic Modeling for Micelle-Mediated Separation of Biocomponents. Ind Eng Chem Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.2c01589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Evgenia A. Safonova
- St. Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya nab., 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- St. Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya nab., 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- St. Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya nab., 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- St. Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya nab., 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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Xi S, Zhu Y, Lu J, Chapman WG. Block copolymer self-assembly: Melt and solution by molecular density functional theory. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:054902. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0069883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Shun Xi
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
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Lakshmi SN, Bahadur P, Choudhury SD. Fate of Photoinduced Electron Transfer Reactions with Temperature- and pH-Induced Assembly/Disassembly of Star Block Copolymer Micelles. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2021; 37:14125-14134. [PMID: 34797674 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The assembly/disassembly of star block copolymers induced by changes in temperature or pH of the medium is anticipated to have interesting implications for hosting/releasing drugs and tuning chemical reactions. This study investigates the possibility of employing the dually sensitive self-assembly of an ethylene oxide-propylene oxide star block copolymer, Tetronic T904, to influence photoinduced electron transfer (ET) reactions, on switching from the assembled state (micelle) when temperature is above the critical micelle temperature (CMT) and pH of the medium is above the pKa of T904 to the dissociated (unimer) state when either the temperature is below the CMT or the polymer is protonated. Steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence techniques have been used to characterize the microenvironments of the reactants in T904 solutions under different temperature and pH conditions and to determine ET rate constants. Interestingly, the bimolecular ET rate constants in both assembled and disassembled states of T904 depict a bell-shaped correlation with the driving force of the reaction, in accordance with Marcus inversion behavior instead of the usual Rehm-Weller behavior seen in conventional solvents. The assembly/disassembly of T904 stimulated by temperature or pH affects the micropolarity in the reactant environment, the magnitude of ET rate constants, and the position of inversion on the exergonicity scale.
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- Suresh Nayana Lakshmi
- Radiation & Photochemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400 085, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat 395007, India
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- Radiation & Photochemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400 085, India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai 400094, India
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Rehner P, Bursik B, Gross J. Surfactant Modeling Using Classical Density Functional Theory and a Group Contribution PC-SAFT Approach. Ind Eng Chem Res 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.1c00169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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- Philipp Rehner
- Institute of Thermodynamics and Thermal Process Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 9, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Thermodynamics and Thermal Process Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 9, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Thermodynamics and Thermal Process Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 9, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Walker CC, Genzer J, Santiso EE. Effect of Poly(vinyl butyral) Comonomer Sequence on Adhesion to Amorphous Silica: A Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Study. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:47879-47890. [PMID: 32921047 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c10747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Modulating a comonomer sequence, in addition to the overall chemical composition, is the key to unlocking the true potential of many existing commercial copolymers. We employ coarse-grained molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to study the behavior of random-blocky poly(vinyl butyral-co-vinyl alcohol) (PVB) melts in contact with an amorphous silica surface, representing the interface found in laminated safety glass. Our two-pronged coarse-graining approach utilizes both macroscopic thermophysical data and all-atom MD simulation data. Polymer-polymer nonbonded interactions are described by the fused-sphere SAFT-γ Mie equation of state, while bonded interactions are derived using Boltzmann inversion to match the bond and angle distributions from all-atom PVB chains. Spatially dependent polymer-surface interactions are mapped from a hydroxylated all-atom amorphous silica slab model and all-atom monomers to an external potential acting on the coarse-grained sites. We discovered an unexpected complex relationship between the blockiness parameter and the adhesion energy. The adhesion strength between PVB copolymers with intermediate VA content and silica was found to be maximal for random-blocky copolymers with a moderately high degree of blockiness rather than for diblock copolymers. We attribute this to two main factors: (1) changes in morphology, which dramatically alter the number of VA beads interacting with the surface and (2) a non-negligible contribution of vinyl butyral (VB) monomers to adhesion energy because of their preference to adsorb to zones with low hydroxyl density on the silica surface.
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- Christopher C Walker
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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Kwa YC, Tan YF, Foo YY, Leo BF, Chung I, Kiew LV, Imae T, Yusa SI, Chung LY. Improved delivery and antimetastatic effects of Stattic by self-assembled amphiphilic pendant-dendron copolymer micelles in breast cancer cell lines. J Drug Deliv Sci Technol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jddst.2020.101905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Xi S, Liu J, Valiya Parambathu A, Zhang Y, Chapman WG. An Efficient Algorithm for Molecular Density Functional Theory in Cylindrical Geometry: Application to Interfacial Statistical Associating Fluid Theory (iSAFT). Ind Eng Chem Res 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.9b06895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Shun Xi
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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Zhang Y, Chapman WG. Modeling Lower Critical Solution Temperature Behavior of Associating Dendrimers Using Density Functional Theory. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2019; 35:10808-10817. [PMID: 31335155 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b00514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We study the phase behavior of associating dendrimers in explicit solvents using classical density functional theory. The existence of association enables uptake of solvent inside the dendrimer even for unfavorable Lennard-Jones interaction between the solvent and dendrimer. Depending on the distributions of associating sites, the dendrimer conformation can be either dense-core or dense-shell. The conformation of the associating dendrimer is greatly affected by the temperature. Due to the interplay between association interaction and Lennard-Jones attractions, we find the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) behavior of dendrimer conformation and study how it changes as the dendrimer size or solvent size changes. The dendrimer in our study displays no LCST behavior at low generations, and it has a maximum LCST at G4. Moreover, increasing the solvent chain length decreases the LCST. For solvents with self-association, the competition between solvent-solvent association and solvent-dendrimer association also tends to reduce the LCST. Qualitatively consistent with experiments, our results provide insight into the molecular mechanism of the LCST behavior of associating dendrimers.
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- Yuchong Zhang
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , Rice University , 6100 Main Street , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , Rice University , 6100 Main Street , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
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Pervaje AK, Walker CC, Santiso EE. Molecular simulation of polymers with a SAFT-γ Mie approach. MOLECULAR SIMULATION 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/08927022.2019.1645331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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- Amulya K. Pervaje
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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Papadakis CM, Müller-Buschbaum P, Laschewsky A. Switch It Inside-Out: "Schizophrenic" Behavior of All Thermoresponsive UCST-LCST Diblock Copolymers. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2019; 35:9660-9676. [PMID: 31314540 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b01444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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This feature article reviews our recent advancements on the synthesis, phase behavior, and micellar structures of diblock copolymers consisting of oppositely thermoresponsive blocks in aqueous environments. These copolymers combine a nonionic block, which shows lower critical solution temperature (LCST) behavior, with a zwitterionic block that exhibits an upper critical solution temperature (UCST). The transition temperature of the latter class of polymers is strongly controlled by its molar mass and by the salt concentration, in contrast to the rather invariant transition of nonionic polymers with type II LCST behavior such as poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) or poly(N-isopropyl methacrylamide). This allows for implementing the sequence of the UCST and LCST transitions of the polymers at will by adjusting either molecular or, alternatively, physical parameters. Depending on the location of the transition temperatures of both blocks, different switching scenarios are realized from micelles to inverse micelles, namely via the molecularly dissolved state, the aggregated state, or directly. In addition to studies of (semi)dilute aqueous solutions, highly concentrated systems have also been explored, namely water-swollen thin films. Concerning applications, we discuss the possible use of the diblock copolymers as "smart" nanocarriers.
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- Christine M Papadakis
- Fachgebiet Physik weicher Materie/Lehrstuhl für Funktionelle Materialien, Physik-Department , Technische Universität München , James-Franck-Straße 1 , 85748 Garching , Germany
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- Fachgebiet Physik weicher Materie/Lehrstuhl für Funktionelle Materialien, Physik-Department , Technische Universität München , James-Franck-Straße 1 , 85748 Garching , Germany
- Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ) , Lichtenbergstraße 1 , 85748 Garching , Germany
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- Institut für Chemie , Universität Potsdam , Karl-Liebknecht straße 24-25 , 14476 Potsdam-Golm , Germany
- Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP , Geiselbergstraße 69 , 14476 Potsdam-Golm , Germany
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Liu J, Xi S, Chapman WG. Competitive Sorption of CO 2 with Gas Mixtures in Nanoporous Shale for Enhanced Gas Recovery from Density Functional Theory. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2019; 35:8144-8158. [PMID: 31030516 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b00410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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CO2 competitive sorption with shale gas under various conditions from simple to complex pore characteristics is studied using a molecular density functional theory (DFT) that reduces to perturbed chain-statistical associating fluid theory in the bulk fluid region. The DFT model is first verified by grand canonical Monte Carlo simulation in graphite slit pores for pure and binary component systems at different temperatures, pressures, pore sizes, and bulk gas compositions for methane/ethane with CO2. Then, the model is utilized in multicomponent systems that include CH4, C2H6, and C3+ components of different compositions. It is shown that the selectivity of CO2 decreases with increases in temperature, pressure, nanopore size, and average molecular weight of shale gas. Extending the model to more realistic situations, we consider the impact of water present in the pore and consider the effect of permeation of fluid molecules into the kerogen that forms the pore walls. The water-graphite interaction is calibrated with contact angle from molecular simulation data from the literature. The kerogen pore model prediction of gas absolute sorption is compared with experimental and molecular simulation values in the literature. It is shown that the presence of water reduces the CO2 adsorption but improves the CO2 selectivity. The dissolution of gases into the kerogen matrix also leads to the increase in CO2 selectivity. The effect of kerogen type and maturity on the gas sorption amount and CO2 selectivity is also studied. The associated mechanisms are discussed to provide fundamental understanding for gas recovery by CO2.
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- Jinlu Liu
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , Rice University , 6100 Main Street , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , Rice University , 6100 Main Street , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , Rice University , 6100 Main Street , Houston , Texas 77005 , United States
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