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Singh TV, Shagolsem LS. Universality and Identity Ordering in Heteropolymer Coil–Globule Transition. Macromolecules 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c01559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Thoudam Vilip Singh
- Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology Manipur, Imphal795004, India
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- Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology Manipur, Imphal795004, India
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Liu J, Guo H, Gao Q, Li H, An Z, Zhang W. Coil–Globule Transition of a Water-Soluble Polymer. Macromolecules 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c01039] [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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- Jianyu Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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- Institute of Nanochemistry and Nanobiology, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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- Yuci Xu
- Faculty of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, China
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Debjyoti Bhattacharya
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036, India
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Franchini S, Balzan R. Energy of the interacting self-avoiding walk at the θ point. Phys Rev E 2020; 102:032143. [PMID: 33075968 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.102.032143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2020] [Accepted: 09/14/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We perform a numerical study of a new microcanonical polymer model on a three-dimensional cubic lattice, consisting of ideal chains whose range and number of nearest-neighbor contacts are fixed to given values. Our simulations suggest an interesting exact relation concerning the internal energy per monomer of the interacting self-avoiding walk at the θ point.
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- Simone Franchini
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Universitá di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 1, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Universitá di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 1, 00185 Roma, Italy
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Cai S, Liu J, Tian M, Wang K, Shen L. Diffusion dynamics of a single collapsed homopolymer globule at the solid-liquid interface. SOFT MATTER 2020; 16:2431-2436. [PMID: 31942904 DOI: 10.1039/c9sm02335f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Contradictive to the conventional wisdom that a collapsed polymer globule in poor solvents adsorb on surfaces in a way analogous to the spreading of a liquid droplet, here we have shown via single molecule measurements that a single poly(N-isoporpylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) globule can jump from one spot to another as an elastic nonadhesive ball even on a hydrophobic polystyrene surface. The molecular weight dependence of the effective surface diffusion coefficient measured for the adsorbed globule suggested that it exhibited mostly a similar globular conformation to that in the bulk solution. Both the displacement and waiting time distributions of the adsorbed globules were found to follow a power-law decay rather than an exponential process, suggesting a broad distribution of binding energies due to the difference in degree of globule deformation. These effects together reflect a character of the viscoelasticity even in a single-chain globule in dilute solutions. Our findings also demonstrate that it is not the single-chain globule but the inter-globule aggregates at high concentration that lead to irreversible adsorption on the surface, which provides novel dynamics and mechanisms of how a thermosensitive polymer adsorbs on the hydrophobic surface above its lower critical solution temperature.
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- Shali Cai
- School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China.
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Bacle P, Jardat M, Marry V, Mériguet G, Batôt G, Dahirel V. Coarse-Grained Models of Aqueous Solutions of Polyelectrolytes: Significance of Explicit Charges. J Phys Chem B 2019; 124:288-301. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b09725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- Pauline Bacle
- CNRS, Physico-chimie des électrolytes et nano-systèmes interfaciaux, PHENIX, Sorbonne Université, F-75005 Paris, France
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- CNRS, Physico-chimie des électrolytes et nano-systèmes interfaciaux, PHENIX, Sorbonne Université, F-75005 Paris, France
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- CNRS, Physico-chimie des électrolytes et nano-systèmes interfaciaux, PHENIX, Sorbonne Université, F-75005 Paris, France
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- CNRS, Physico-chimie des électrolytes et nano-systèmes interfaciaux, PHENIX, Sorbonne Université, F-75005 Paris, France
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- IFP Énergies Nouvelles, avenue de Bois Préau, 92852 Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, France
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- CNRS, Physico-chimie des électrolytes et nano-systèmes interfaciaux, PHENIX, Sorbonne Université, F-75005 Paris, France
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Gordievskaya YD, Kramarenko EY. Conformational behavior of a semiflexible dipolar chain with a variable relative size of charged groups via molecular dynamics simulations. SOFT MATTER 2019; 15:6073-6085. [PMID: 31310250 DOI: 10.1039/c9sm00909d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The conformational behavior of an isolated semiflexible dipolar chain has been studied by molecular dynamics simulations. The dipolar chain was modeled as a backbone chain of charged beads, each containing an oppositely charged unit connected to it by a rigid spring. The main focus was on the effect of the backbone chain rigidity and the size of the charged groups on the morphology of the collapsed states of the chain formed in low-polar media where the electrostatic interactions are essential. It has been found that the stable globular conformations of the long chain of N = 256 backbone beads are a toroid and an elliptical globule. The macroscopic parameters (such as the radius of gyration and shape factors) as well as the local characteristics of these conformations (radial density distributions of ions, orientational correlations of chain segments, dipoles etc.) are studied depending on the chain stiffness. The regions of stability of a torus and an elliptical globule are found for the dipolar chains with variable dipole length and stiffness, which depend on the strength of electrostatic interactions. It has been shown that a size asymmetry of oppositely charged beads destabilizes globular states favoring elongated chain conformations. A coexistence of various metastable states was demonstrated for shorter chains of N = 128, 64, and 32.
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- Yulia D Gordievskaya
- Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory, 1-2, 119991, Moscow, Russia. and A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds RAS, Vavilova St., 28, 119991, Moscow, Russia
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- Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory, 1-2, 119991, Moscow, Russia. and A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds RAS, Vavilova St., 28, 119991, Moscow, Russia
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Majumder S, Hansmann UHE, Janke W. Pearl-Necklace-Like Local Ordering Drives Polypeptide Collapse. Macromolecules 2019; 52:5491-5498. [PMID: 31631912 PMCID: PMC6795215 DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b00562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2019] [Revised: 05/31/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The
collapse of the polypeptide backbone is an integral part of
protein folding. Using polyglycine as a probe, we explore the nonequilibrium
pathways of protein collapse in water. We find that the collapse depends
on the competition between hydration effects and intrapeptide interactions.
Once intrapeptide van der Waal interactions dominate, the chain collapses
along a nonequilibrium pathway characterized by formation of pearl-necklace-like
local clusters as intermediates that eventually coagulate into a single
globule. By describing this coarsening through the contact probability
as a function of distance along the chain, we extract a time-dependent
length scale that grows in a linear fashion. The collapse dynamics
is characterized by a dynamical critical exponent z ≈ 0.5 that is much smaller than the values of z = 1–2 reported for nonbiological polymers. This difference
in the exponents is explained by the instantaneous formation of intrachain
hydrogen bonds and local ordering that may be correlated with the
observed fast folding times of proteins.
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- Suman Majumder
- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig, IPF 231101, 04081 Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig, IPF 231101, 04081 Leipzig, Germany
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Polymer coil-globule phase transition is a universal folding principle of Drosophila epigenetic domains. Epigenetics Chromatin 2019; 12:28. [PMID: 31084607 PMCID: PMC6515630 DOI: 10.1186/s13072-019-0269-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2018] [Accepted: 04/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Background Localized functional domains within chromosomes, known as topologically associating domains (TADs), have been recently highlighted. In Drosophila, TADs are biochemically defined by epigenetic marks, this suggesting that the 3D arrangement may be the “missing link” between epigenetics and gene activity. Recent observations (Boettiger et al. in Nature 529(7586):418–422, 2016) provide access to structural features of these domains with unprecedented resolution thanks to super-resolution experiments. In particular, they give access to the distribution of the radii of gyration for domains of different linear length and associated with different transcriptional activity states: active, inactive or repressed. Intriguingly, the observed scaling laws lack consistent interpretation in polymer physics. Results We develop a new methodology conceived to extract the best information from such super-resolution data by exploiting the whole distribution of gyration radii, and to place these experimental results on a theoretical framework. We show that the experimental data are compatible with the finite-size behavior of a self-attracting polymer. The same generic polymer model leads to quantitative differences between active, inactive and repressed domains. Active domains behave as pure polymer coils, while inactive and repressed domains both lie at the coil–globule crossover. For the first time, the “color-specificity” of both the persistence length and the mean interaction energy are estimated, leading to important differences between epigenetic states. Conclusion These results point toward a crucial role of criticality to enhance the system responsivity, resulting in both energy transitions and structural rearrangements. We get strong indications that epigenetically induced changes in nucleosome–nucleosome interaction can cause chromatin to shift between different activity states. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s13072-019-0269-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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Valueva SV, Borovikova LN. Effect of the Type of Biologically Active Stabilizers on the Spectral and Dimensional Characteristics of Selenium-Containing Hybrid Nanosystems. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A 2019. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036024419010308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Song L, Lin J, Liu P, Li J, Jiang S, Huang D. Quantitative determination of the spring entropy effect and its indication of the conformational change of polymer coils with varying concentration in aqueous poly( N-isopropylamide) solutions. RSC Adv 2019; 9:5540-5549. [PMID: 35515908 PMCID: PMC9060781 DOI: 10.1039/c9ra00117d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2019] [Accepted: 02/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The lower critical solution temperature (LCST) phase separation behaviors of thermosensitive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) aqueous solutions were investigated by power-compensation differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The entropic effect and hence the change of swelling state of PNIPAM polymer coils in homogeneous concentrated aqueous solutions with varied solution composition was elucidated by the isothermal enthalpy demixing recovery behaviors in distinct concentration regions.
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- Li Song
- Department of Polymer Material Science and Engineering, Institution of Advanced Polymer Materials, School of Material Science and Engineering Tianjin University Tianjin 300350 China
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- Department of Polymer Material Science and Engineering, Institution of Advanced Polymer Materials, School of Material Science and Engineering Tianjin University Tianjin 300350 China
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- Department of Polymer Material Science and Engineering, Institution of Advanced Polymer Materials, School of Material Science and Engineering Tianjin University Tianjin 300350 China
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- Department of Polymer Material Science and Engineering, Institution of Advanced Polymer Materials, School of Material Science and Engineering Tianjin University Tianjin 300350 China
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- Department of Polymer Material Science and Engineering, Institution of Advanced Polymer Materials, School of Material Science and Engineering Tianjin University Tianjin 300350 China
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- Department of Polymer Material Science and Engineering, Institution of Advanced Polymer Materials, School of Material Science and Engineering Tianjin University Tianjin 300350 China
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Erdel F, Rippe K. Formation of Chromatin Subcompartments by Phase Separation. Biophys J 2018; 114:2262-2270. [PMID: 29628210 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2018.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 234] [Impact Index Per Article: 39.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2017] [Revised: 02/19/2018] [Accepted: 03/06/2018] [Indexed: 10/17/2022] Open
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Chromatin is partitioned on multiple length scales into subcompartments that differ from each other with respect to their molecular composition and biological function. It is a key question how these compartments can form even though diffusion constantly mixes the nuclear interior and rapidly balances concentration gradients of soluble nuclear components. Different biophysical concepts are currently used to explain the formation of "chromatin bodies" in a self-organizing manner and without consuming energy. They rationalize how soluble protein factors that are dissolved in the liquid nuclear phase, the nucleoplasm, bind and organize transcriptionally active or silenced chromatin domains. In addition to cooperative binding of proteins to a preformed chromatin structure, two different mechanisms for the formation of phase-separated chromatin subcompartments have been proposed. One is based on bridging proteins that cross-link polymer segments with particular properties. Bridging can induce a collapse of the nucleosome chain and associated factors into an ordered globular phase. The other mechanism is based on multivalent interactions among soluble molecules that bind to chromatin. These interactions can induce liquid-liquid phase separation, which drives the assembly of liquid-like nuclear bodies around the respective binding sites on chromatin. Both phase separation mechanisms can explain that chromatin bodies are dynamic spherical structures, which can coalesce and are in constant and rapid exchange with the surrounding nucleoplasm. However, they make distinct predictions about how the size, density, and stability of chromatin bodies depends on the concentration and interaction behavior of the molecules involved. Here, we compare the different biophysical mechanisms for the assembly of chromatin bodies and discuss experimental strategies to distinguish them from each other. Furthermore, we outline the implications for the establishment and memory of functional chromatin state patterns.
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- Fabian Erdel
- Division of Chromatin Networks, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Bioquant, Heidelberg, Germany.
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- Division of Chromatin Networks, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Bioquant, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Valueva SV, Vylegzhanina ME, Sukhanova TE. Morphological and Spectral Characteristics of Hybrid Nanosystems Based on Mono- and Bimetallic Platinum Nanoparticles and Silver. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A 2018. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036024418020243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Yoshida K, Horii K, Saito A, Takashima A, Nishio I. Confinement Effects on Polymer Dynamics: Thermo-Responsive Behaviours of Hydroxypropyl Cellulose Polymers in Phospholipid-Coated Droplets (Water-in-Oil Emulsion). Polymers (Basel) 2017; 9:polym9120680. [PMID: 30965979 PMCID: PMC6418704 DOI: 10.3390/polym9120680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2017] [Revised: 11/25/2017] [Accepted: 12/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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In order to construct the artificial cells and to understand the physicochemical properties of living cells, it is important to clarify the cell-sized confinement effect on the behaviours of bio-inspired polymers. We report the dynamic behaviours of aqueous hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC) solution coated with phospholipids in oil (water-in-oil droplets, W/O droplets), accompanied by an increase in the temperature. We directly observed the beginning of phase separation of HPC solution using a fluorescence microscope and confirmed the dependence of such phenomena on droplet size. The results indicate that the start time of phase separation is decreased with an increase in droplet size. The experimental results suggest that the confinement situation accelerates the phase separation of aqueous HPC solutions.
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- Kazunari Yoshida
- Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, 4-3-16, Jonan, Yonezawa 992-8510, Yamagata, Japan.
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- Department of Physics and Mathematics, College of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University, 5-10-1 Fuchinobe, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara 252-5258, Kanagawa, Japan.
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- Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, 4-3-16, Jonan, Yonezawa 992-8510, Yamagata, Japan.
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- Department of Physics and Mathematics, College of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University, 5-10-1 Fuchinobe, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara 252-5258, Kanagawa, Japan.
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- Department of Physics and Mathematics, College of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University, 5-10-1 Fuchinobe, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara 252-5258, Kanagawa, Japan.
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Liu C, Kubo K, Wang E, Han KS, Yang F, Chen G, Escobedo FA, Coates GW, Chen P. Single polymer growth dynamics. Science 2017; 358:352-355. [DOI: 10.1126/science.aan6837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2017] [Accepted: 09/11/2017] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Christiansen H, Majumder S, Janke W. Coarsening and aging of lattice polymers: Influence of bond fluctuations. J Chem Phys 2017; 147:094902. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4991667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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- Henrik Christiansen
- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig, Postfach 100 920, 04009 Leipzig, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig, Postfach 100 920, 04009 Leipzig, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig, Postfach 100 920, 04009 Leipzig, Germany
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Controlled self-organization of polymer nanopatterns over large areas. Sci Rep 2017; 7:10526. [PMID: 28874796 PMCID: PMC5585330 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-09463-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2017] [Accepted: 07/26/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Self-assembly methods allow to obtain ordered patterns on surfaces with exquisite precision, but often lack in effectiveness over large areas. Here we report on the realization of hierarchically ordered polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) nanofibres and nanodots over large areas from solution via a fast, easy and low-cost method named ASB-SANS, based on a ternary solution that is cast on the substrate. Simple changes to the ternary solution composition allow to control the transition from nanofibres to nanodots, via a wide range of intermediate topologies. The ternary solution includes the material to be patterned, a liquid solvent and a solid substance able to sublimate. The analysis of the fibres/dots width and inter-pattern distance variations with respect to the ratio between the solution components suggests that the macromolecular chains mobility in the solidified sublimating substance follows Zimm-like models (mobility of macromolecules in diluted liquid solutions). A qualitative explanation of the self-assembly phenomena originating the observed nanopatterns is given. Finally, ASB-SANS-generated PMMA nanodots arrays have been used as lithographic masks for a silicon substrate and submitted to Inductively Coupled Plasma-Reactive Ion Etching (ICP-RIE). As a result, nanopillars with remarkably high aspect ratios have been achieved over areas as large as several millimeters square, highlighting an interesting potential of ASB-SANS in practical applications like photon trapping in photovoltaic cells, surface-enhanced sensors, plasmonics.
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Morgan B, Dadmun MD. The importance of solvent quality on the modification of conjugated polymer conformation and thermodynamics with illumination. SOFT MATTER 2017; 13:2773-2780. [PMID: 28345084 DOI: 10.1039/c6sm02631a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Device efficiency in key organic electronic devices such as organic photovoltaics, field transistors, and light emitting diodes has long been known to be closely tied to the conformation of the conjugated polymer chains which make up the active layers. Our previous results show that light exposure can have a profound effect on the structure and assembly of these optoelectronic materials in solution. In order to advance our understanding of the role which solvent quality plays in this phenomenon, we have further studied the modulation of these illumination dependent structural changes on the key benchmark conjugated polymers P3HT and MEH-PPV as a function of solvent quality over a wide range of polymer solubilities. Analysis of this data indicates that use of poorer conjugated polymer solvents ultimately results in larger absolute alterations to polymer conformation, denoting the crucial role which solution thermodynamics plays in this generic effect. This discovery opens the door to controlling final device morphology through careful manipulation of solvent composition during solution based device casting techniques, moving our efforts closer to the development of a powerful, non-destructive, and tunable method for light-driven control of polymer conformation in novel light-responsive organic materials.
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- Brian Morgan
- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
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Valueva SV, Kipper AI. Morphology and thermodynamics of selenium-containing nanosystems: The effect of polymer stabilizers. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A 2017. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036024417040306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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- Soumik Mitra
- Department
of Physical Sciences and ‡Centre for Advanced Functional
Materials, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur 741246, India
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- Department
of Physical Sciences and ‡Centre for Advanced Functional
Materials, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur 741246, India
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Majumder S, Zierenberg J, Janke W. Kinetics of polymer collapse: effect of temperature on cluster growth and aging. SOFT MATTER 2017; 13:1276-1290. [PMID: 28106216 DOI: 10.1039/c6sm02197b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Using state of the art Monte Carlo simulations of a bead-spring model we investigate both the equilibrium and the nonequilibrium behavior of the homopolymer collapse. The equilibrium properties obtained via multicanonical sampling recover the well-known finite-size scaling behavior of collapse for our model polymer. For the nonequilibrium dynamics we study the collapse by quenching the homopolymer from an expanded coiled state into the globular phase. The sequence of events observed during the collapse is independent of the quench depth. In particular, we focus on finding out universal scaling behaviors related to the growth or coarsening of clusters of monomers, by drawing phenomenological analogies with ordering kinetics. We distinguish the cluster coarsening stage from the initial stage of primary cluster formation. By successful application of a nonequilibrium finite-size scaling analysis we show that at all quench temperatures, during the coarsening stage, the cluster growth is roughly linear and can be characterised by a universal finite-size scaling function. In addition, we provide evidence of aging by constructing a suitable autocorrelation function and its corresponding dynamical power-law scaling with respect to the growing cluster sizes. The predicted theoretical bound for the exponent governing such scaling is strictly obeyed by the numerical data irrespective of the quench temperature. The results and methods presented here in general should find application in similar phenomena such as the collapse of a protein molecule preceding its folding.
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- Suman Majumder
- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig, Postfach 100 920, 04009 Leipzig, Germany.
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig, Postfach 100 920, 04009 Leipzig, Germany.
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig, Postfach 100 920, 04009 Leipzig, Germany.
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Unperturbed dimension, interaction parameters, zeta potential and rheology of sodium alginate in binary solvent mixtures. JOURNAL OF POLYMER RESEARCH 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s10965-016-1057-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Huang H, Liao Y, Bu W, Wang W, Sun JZ. Going beyond the classical amphiphilicity paradigm: the self-assembly of completely hydrophobic polymers into free-standing sheets and hollow nanostructures in solvents of variable quality. SOFT MATTER 2016; 12:5011-5021. [PMID: 27157546 DOI: 10.1039/c6sm00259e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Self-assembly is well-known to occur in amphiphiles, and the totally hydrophobic ones are never reported to self-assemble. In this work we report for the first time that the latter can self-assemble into free-standing sheets and hollow spheres in toluene/methanol mixed solvents by modulating the solvent quality. The homopolymers studied in this work are polystyrene (PS), polyphenylacetylene (PPA), and poly(3-hexyl thiophene) (P3HT), representing polymers with different rigidity. All the three form a homogenous solution in toluene, but self-assembly occurs in the toluene/methanol mixed solvents. Micrometer sized free-standing sheets were formed for PS, PPA, and P3HT at methanol volume fractions being 43%, 50%, and 67%, respectively, and hollow spheres were observed for PPA at higher methanol fractions of 75 and 90%. Under the latter solvent conditions, PS forms solid spheres, yet ill-defined aggregates and free-standing sheets coexist in the case of P3HT. This non-solvent induced self-assembly was explained by a delicate balance of two "opposing forces": van der Waals attractive and entropic repulsive forces generated between the segments of these homopolymers within a single chain, between two chains, and among more chains in the solvents of worsened quality.
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- Huanting Huang
- Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metals Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China.
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Wang J, Wu C. Reexamination of the Origin of Slow Relaxation in Semidilute Polymer Solutions—Reptation Related or Not? Macromolecules 2016. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b00298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Jianqi Wang
- Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China
- Heifei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, China
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- Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China
- Heifei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, China
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Visualization of polymer relaxation in viscoelastic turbulent micro-channel flow. Sci Rep 2015; 5:16633. [PMID: 26563615 PMCID: PMC4643225 DOI: 10.1038/srep16633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2015] [Accepted: 10/16/2015] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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In micro-channels, the flow of viscous liquids e.g. water, is laminar due to the low Reynolds number in miniaturized dimensions. An aqueous solution becomes viscoelastic with a minute amount of polymer additives; its flow behavior can become drastically different and turbulent. However, the molecules are typically invisible. Here we have developed a novel visualization technique to examine the extension and relaxation of polymer molecules at high flow velocities in a viscoelastic turbulent flow. Using high speed videography to observe the fluorescein labeled molecules, we show that viscoelastic turbulence is caused by the sporadic, non-uniform release of energy by the polymer molecules. This developed technique allows the examination of a viscoelastic liquid at the molecular level, and demonstrates the inhomogeneity of viscoelastic liquids as a result of molecular aggregation. It paves the way for a deeper understanding of viscoelastic turbulence, and could provide some insights on the high Weissenberg number problem. In addition, the technique may serve as a useful tool for the investigations of polymer drag reduction.
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Valueva SV, Titova AV, Borovikova LN. Selenium-containing nanosystems based on biocompatible polymer stabilizers: Kinetics, morphology, and thermodynamics. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A 2015. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036024415090356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Yue M, Hoshino Y, Miura Y. Design rationale of thermally responsive microgel particle films that reversibly absorb large amounts of CO 2: fine tuning the p Ka of ammonium ions in the particles. Chem Sci 2015; 6:6112-6123. [PMID: 30090226 PMCID: PMC6054111 DOI: 10.1039/c5sc01978h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2015] [Accepted: 07/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Fine-tuning of pKa value of ammonium ions at both CO2 capture and release temperature is found to be crucial for the design of the thermally responsive gel particle films that reversibly capture large amounts of CO2.
Herein we revealed the design rationale of thermally responsive gel particle (GP) films that reversibly capture and release large amounts of CO2 over a narrow temperature range (30–75 °C). The pKa value of ammonium ions in the GPs at both the CO2 capture temperature (30 °C) and release temperature (75 °C) is found to be the primary factor responsible for the stoichiometry of reversible CO2 capture by the amines in the GP films. The pKa values can be tuned by the properties of GPs such as volume phase transition temperature (VPTT), size, swelling ratio, and the imprinted microenvironment surrounding the amines. The optimal GP obtained according to the design rationale showed high capture capacity (68 mL CO2 per g dry GPs, 3.0 mmol CO2 per g dry GPs), although the regeneration temperature was as low as 75 °C. We anticipate that GP films that reversibly capture other acidic and basic gases in large amounts can also be achieved by the pKa tuning procedures.
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- Mengchen Yue
- Department of Chemical Engineering , Kyushu University , 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku , Fukuoka 819-0395 , Japan .
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- Department of Chemical Engineering , Kyushu University , 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku , Fukuoka 819-0395 , Japan .
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- Department of Chemical Engineering , Kyushu University , 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku , Fukuoka 819-0395 , Japan .
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Wang W, Zhao P, Yang X, Lu ZY. Coil-to-globule transitions of homopolymers and multiblock copolymers. J Chem Phys 2014; 141:244907. [PMID: 25554180 DOI: 10.1063/1.4904888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Wei Wang
- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, China
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, China
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, China
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, China
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Wang R, Wang ZG. Theory of Polymer Chains in Poor Solvent: Single-Chain Structure, Solution Thermodynamics, and Θ Point. Macromolecules 2014. [DOI: 10.1021/ma5003968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Rui Wang
- Division
of Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Division
of Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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Huang CH, Li YC, Yeh YQ, Jeng US, Wei HH, Jan JS. Probing conformational transitions of polymer chains by microrheology. POLYMER 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2014.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Lee SM, Nguyen ST. Smart Nanoscale Drug Delivery Platforms from Stimuli-Responsive Polymers and Liposomes. Macromolecules 2013; 46:9169-9180. [PMID: 28804160 PMCID: PMC5552073 DOI: 10.1021/ma401529w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Since the 1960's, stimuli-responsive polymers have been utilized as functional soft materials for biological applications such as the triggered-release delivery of biologically active cargos. Over the same period, liposomes have been explored as an alternative drug delivery system with potentials to decrease the toxic side effects often associated with conventional small-molecule drugs. However, the lack of drug-release triggers and the instability of bare liposomes often limit their practical applications, causing short circulation time and low therapeutic efficacy. This perspective article highlights recent work in integrating these two materials together to achieve a targetable, triggerable nanoscale platform that fulfills all the characteristics of a near-ideal drug delivery system. Through a drop-in, post-synthesis modification strategy, a network of stimuli-responsive polymers can be integrated onto the surface of liposomes to form polymer-caged nanobins, a multifunctional nanoscale delivery platform that allows for multi-drug loading, targeted delivery, triggered drug-release, and theranostic capabilities.
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- Sang-Min Lee
- Department of Chemistry and Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113
- Department of Chemistry, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do 420-743 Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113
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Hoshino Y, Imamura K, Yue M, Inoue G, Miura Y. Reversible Absorption of CO2 Triggered by Phase Transition of Amine-Containing Micro- and Nanogel Particles. J Am Chem Soc 2012; 134:18177-80. [DOI: 10.1021/ja3080192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- Yu Hoshino
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395,
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395,
Japan
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395,
Japan
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- Department of Chemical
Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura,
Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510,
Japan
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395,
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Hua J, Mitra MK, Muthukumar M. Theory of volume transition in polyelectrolyte gels with charge regularization. J Chem Phys 2012; 136:134901. [PMID: 22482584 DOI: 10.1063/1.3698168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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We present a theory for polyelectrolyte gels that allow the effective charge of the polymer backbone to self-regulate. Using a variational approach, we obtain an expression for the free energy of gels that accounts for the gel elasticity, free energy of mixing, counterion adsorption, local dielectric constant, electrostatic interaction among polymer segments, electrolyte ion correlations, and self-consistent charge regularization on the polymer strands. This free energy is then minimized to predict the behavior of the system as characterized by the gel volume fraction as a function of external variables such as temperature and salt concentration. We present results for the volume transition of polyelectrolyte gels in salt-free solvents, solvents with monovalent salts, and solvents with divalent salts. The results of our theoretical analysis capture the essential features of existing experimental results and also provide predictions for further experimentation. Our analysis highlights the importance of the self-regularization of the effective charge for the volume transition of gels in particular, and for charged polymer systems in general. Our analysis also enables us to identify the dominant free energy contributions for charged polymer networks and provides a framework for further investigation of specific experimental systems.
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- Jing Hua
- Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
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Hoshino Y, Nakamoto M, Miura Y. Control of Protein-Binding Kinetics on Synthetic Polymer Nanoparticles by Tuning Flexibility and Inducing Conformation Changes of Polymer Chains. J Am Chem Soc 2012; 134:15209-12. [DOI: 10.1021/ja306053s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- Yu Hoshino
- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395,
Japan
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395,
Japan
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395,
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Wang R, Wang ZG. Theory of Polymers in Poor Solvent: Phase Equilibrium and Nucleation Behavior. Macromolecules 2012. [DOI: 10.1021/ma301049m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Rui Wang
- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
91125, United States
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
91125, United States
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Yuan B, He L, Zhang L. Magnetic-induced coil-globule transition for polyelectrolytes. J Appl Polym Sci 2012. [DOI: 10.1002/app.36769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The collapse of a homopolymer gaussian chain into a globule is represented as a transition between two states, viz., extended and collapsed. Appropriately, this model has been labeled as the all-or-none view of chain collapse. In the collapsed state, the single polymer partition function is expressed by a single Mayer diagram with the maximum number of f-bonds arising from nonbonded square well interactions. Our target is the dependence of the transition temperature on chain length and the interaction range of the square well, as indicated through the behavior of the radius of gyration and the constant volume heat capacity. Properties of the collapse transition are calculated exactly for chains with three to six backbone atoms and heuristically for long chains using arguments derived from the small chains and from conditions of integrability. Comparison with simulation studies is made.
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- Glenn T Evans
- Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA.
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Pham TT, Dünweg B, Prakash JR. Collapse Dynamics of Copolymers in a Poor Solvent: Influence of Hydrodynamic Interactions and Chain Sequence. Macromolecules 2010. [DOI: 10.1021/ma101806n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Tri Thanh Pham
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, VIC-3800, Melbourne, Australia
- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, D-55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, VIC-3800, Melbourne, Australia
- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, D-55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, VIC-3800, Melbourne, Australia
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Valueva SV, Borovikova LN, Vylegzhanina ME, Sukhanova TE. Morphology and thermodynamic characteristics of selenium-containing nanostructures based on polymethacrylic acid. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A 2010. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036024410090037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Ivanov DA, Valueva SV, Borovikova LN, Novoselov NP. Self-organization and morphological characteristics of selenium-containing nanostructures based on rigid-chain polymers. RUSS J APPL CHEM+ 2010. [DOI: 10.1134/s1070427210020217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Taylor MP, Paul W, Binder K. Phase transitions of a single polymer chain: A Wang-Landau simulation study. J Chem Phys 2010; 131:114907. [PMID: 19778149 DOI: 10.1063/1.3227751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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A single flexible homopolymer chain can assume a variety of conformations which can be broadly classified as expanded coil, collapsed globule, and compact crystallite. Here we study transitions between these conformational states for an interaction-site polymer chain comprised of N=128 square-well-sphere monomers with hard-sphere diameter sigma and square-well diameter lambdasigma. Wang-Landau sampling with bond-rebridging Monte Carlo moves is used to compute the density of states for this chain and both canonical and microcanonical analyses are used to identify and characterize phase transitions in this finite size system. The temperature-interaction range (i.e., T-lambda) phase diagram is constructed for lambda<or=1.30. Chains assume an expanded coil conformation at high temperatures and a crystallite structure at low temperatures. For lambda>1.06 these two states are separated by an intervening collapsed globule phase and thus, with decreasing temperature a chain undergoes a continuous coil-globule (collapse) transition followed by a discontinuous globule-crystal (freezing) transition. For well diameters lambda<1.06 the collapse transition is pre-empted by the freezing transition and thus there is a direct first-order coil-crystal phase transition. These results confirm the recent prediction, based on a lattice polymer model, that a collapsed globule state is unstable with respect to a solid phase for flexible polymers with sufficiently short-range monomer-monomer interactions.
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- Mark P Taylor
- Department of Physics, Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio 44234, USA.
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Ivanov DA, Valueva SV, Novoselov NP. Morphological characteristics of selenium-containing nanostructures based on rigid-chain molecules. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A 2010. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036024410060208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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PARICAUD PATRICE, GALINDO AMPARO, JACKSON GEORGE. Understanding liquid-liquid immiscibility and LCST behaviour in polymer solutions with a Wertheim TPT1 description. Mol Phys 2009. [DOI: 10.1080/0026897031000123710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- PATRICE PARICAUD
- a Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology , Imperial College London , South Kensington Campus, London , SW7 2AZ , UK
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- a Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology , Imperial College London , South Kensington Campus, London , SW7 2AZ , UK
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- a Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology , Imperial College London , South Kensington Campus, London , SW7 2AZ , UK
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Hoshino Y, Urakami T, Kodama T, Koide H, Oku N, Okahata Y, Shea KJ. Design of synthetic polymer nanoparticles that capture and neutralize a toxic peptide. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2009; 5:1562-1568. [PMID: 19296557 PMCID: PMC2804256 DOI: 10.1002/smll.200900186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Designed polymer nanoparticles (NPs) capable of binding and neutralizing a biomacromolecular toxin are prepared. A library of copolymer NPs is synthesized from combinations of functional monomers. The binding capacity and affinity of the NPs are individually analyzed. NPs with optimized composition are capable of neutralizing the toxin even in a complex biological milieu. It is anticipated that this strategy will be a starting point for the design of synthetic alternatives to antibodies.
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- Yu Hoshino
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 (USA),
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, 52-1 Yada, Shizuoka 422-8526 (Japan)
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- Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuda, Midoriku, Yokohama 226-8501 (Japan)
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, 52-1 Yada, Shizuoka 422-8526 (Japan)
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, 52-1 Yada, Shizuoka 422-8526 (Japan)
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- Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuda, Midoriku, Yokohama 226-8501 (Japan)
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 (USA),
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Polson JM, Opps SB, Abou Risk N. Theoretical study of solvent effects on the coil-globule transition. J Chem Phys 2009; 130:244902. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3153350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Horkay F, Basser PJ. Ionic and pH effects on the osmotic properties and structure of polyelectrolyte gels. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 46:2803-2810. [PMID: 20016687 DOI: 10.1002/polb.21590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We investigate the effects of salt concentration and pH on neutralized poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) gels in near physiological salt solutions. Either adding calcium ions or decreasing the pH are found to induce reversible volume transitions but the nature of these transitions seems to be different. For example, the osmotic pressure exhibits a simple power law dependence on the concentration as the transition is approached in both systems, but the power law exponent n is substantially different in the two cases. On decreasing the pH the value of n gradually increases from 2.1 (at pH = 7) to 3.2 (at pH = 1). By contrast, n decreases with increasing calcium ion concentration from 2.1 (in 100 mM NaCl solution) to 1.6 (0.8 mM CaCl(2) in 100 mM NaCl solution). In both systems, a strong increase of the small-angle neutron scattering intensity (SANS) is observed near the volume transition. The SANS results reveal that calcium ions favor the formation of linearly aligned regions in PAA gels.
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- Ferenc Horkay
- Section on Tissue Biophysics and Biomimetics, Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics, NICHD, National Institutes of Health, 13 South Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Vitalis A, Wang X, Pappu RV. Atomistic simulations of the effects of polyglutamine chain length and solvent quality on conformational equilibria and spontaneous homodimerization. J Mol Biol 2008; 384:279-97. [PMID: 18824003 PMCID: PMC2847503 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.09.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2008] [Revised: 09/01/2008] [Accepted: 09/10/2008] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Aggregation of expanded polyglutamine tracts is associated with nine different neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington's disease. Experiments and computer simulations have demonstrated that monomeric forms of polyglutamine molecules sample heterogeneous sets of collapsed structures in water. The current work focuses on a mechanistic characterization of polyglutamine homodimerization as a function of chain length and temperature. These studies were carried out using molecular simulations based on a recently developed continuum solvation model that was designed for studying conformational and binding equilibria of intrinsically disordered molecules such as polyglutamine systems. The main results are as follows: Polyglutamine molecules form disordered, collapsed globules in aqueous solution. These molecules spontaneously associate at conditions approaching those of typical in vitro experiments for chains of length N>/=15. The spontaneity of these homotypic associations increases with increasing chain length and decreases with increasing temperature. Similar and generic driving forces govern both collapse and spontaneous homodimerization of polyglutamine in aqueous milieus. Collapse and dimerization maximize self-interactions and reduce the interface between polyglutamine molecules and the surrounding solvent. Other than these generic considerations, there do not appear to be any specific structural requirements for either chain collapse or chain dimerization; that is, both collapse and dimerization are nonspecific in that disordered globules form disordered dimers. In fact, it is shown that the driving force for intermolecular associations is governed by spontaneous conformational fluctuations within monomeric polyglutamine. These results suggest that polyglutamine aggregation is unlikely to follow a homogeneous nucleation mechanism with the monomer as the critical nucleus. Instead, the results support the formation of disordered, non-beta-sheet-like soluble molten oligomers as early intermediates--a proposal that is congruent with recent experimental data.
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- Andreas Vitalis
- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Center for Computational Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1097, St. Louis, MO 63130
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Center for Computational Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1097, St. Louis, MO 63130
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