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Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles

This Special Topic focuses on material systems containing polymeric nanoparticles, including but not limited to polymer-grafted, single chain, or polymerization-induced self-assembled (PISA) nanoparticles. Articles highlight recent research that connects material properties and behaviors to the underlying properties of the nanoparticles. In addition to original research articles, this Special Topic contains invited tutorials from experts in the field that emphasize unique or emerging techniques for investigating polymeric nanoparticle systems.

Guest Editors: Michael J. A. Hore and Sanat K. Kumar

EDITORIALS

Michael J. A. Hore; LaShanda T. J. Korley; Sanat K. Kumar

10.1063/5.0019326

Soft Matter, Fluids, and Biophysics

Ice templated nanocomposites containing rod-like hematite particles: Interplay between particle anisotropy and particle–matrix interactions

Guruswamy Kumaraswamy; Karthika Suresh; Hisay Lama; Madivala G. Basavaraj; Dillip K. Satapathy

10.1063/1.5144217

Soft Matter, Fluids, and Biophysics

Interfacial rigidity and topology of reverse microemulsions: Influence of alcohol molecules

P. M. Geethu; Vinod K. Aswal; Dillip K. Satapathy

10.1063/1.5140729

TUTORIALS

Particle tracking of nanoparticles in soft matter

Katie A. Rose; Mehdi Molaei; Michael J. Boyle; Daeyeon Lee; John C. Crocker; Russell J. Composto

10.1063/5.0003322

Soft Matter, Fluids, and Biophysics

Dispersion of surface-modified, aggregated, fumed silica in polymer nanocomposites

Kabir Rishi; Lahari Pallerla; Gregory Beaucage; Anh Tang

10.1063/1.5144252

Soft Matter, Fluids, and Biophysics

Influence of casting substrate on bulk morphology and vanadium ion transport in ionomer nanocomposites

Allison Domhoff; Eric M. Davis

10.1063/1.5144204

Soft Matter, Fluids, and Biophysics

Utilizing exfoliated clay–poly(norbornene) nanocomposite prepared by metal-mediated surface-initiated polymerization as model end-tethered polymers on an organoclay substrate

David P. Penaloza, Jr.; Thomas A. P. Seery

10.1063/1.5143825

TUTORIALS

Selective dynamics in polymeric materials: Insights from quasi-elastic neutron scattering spectroscopy

Rana Ashkar

10.1063/1.5144243

Soft Matter, Fluids, and Biophysics

In situ polymerization and polymer grafting to stabilize polymer-functionalized nanoparticles in polymer matrices

Jacob A. LaNasa; Vincent M. Torres; Robert J. Hickey

10.1063/1.5144212

Physics of Materials, Including Electrical, Thermal, Mechanical and Other Properties

Temperature and pH responsive behavior of antifouling zwitterionic mesoporous silica nanoparticles

Ángela A. Beltrán-Osuna; José L. Gómez-Ribelles; Jairo E. Perilla

10.1063/1.5140707

Physics of Materials, Including Electrical, Thermal, Mechanical and Other Properties

The effect of solvent quality on pathway-dependent solution-state self-assembly of an amphiphilic diblock copolymer

Shrinivas Venkataraman; Guangmin Wei; Kenneth P. Mineart; James L. Hedrick; Vivek M. Prabhu; Yi Yan Yang

10.1063/1.5139230

Soft Matter, Fluids, and Biophysics

Revealing nanoscale dynamics during an epoxy curing reaction with x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy

Benjamin M. Yavitt; Daniel Salatto; Zhixing Huang; Yuto T. Koga; Maya K. Endoh; Lutz Wiegart; Sascha Poeller; Stanislas Petrash; Tadanori Koga

10.1063/1.5141488

Physics of Materials, Including Electrical, Thermal, Mechanical and Other Properties

Insight into the effects of reaction conditions on metal-free surface-initiated atom-transfer radical polymerization of methyl methacrylate from SBA-15

Xiang Xu; Yu Zou; Junjie He; Yanning Zeng; Caili Yu; Faai Zhang

10.1063/1.5140719

Physics of Nanoscale and Low-Dimensional Systems, Including Atomic and Quantum Phenomena

The impact of nanoparticle softness on its tracer diffusion coefficient in all polymer nanocomposites

Sahar Rostom; Mark D. Dadmun

10.1063/1.5128652

Organic-Inorganic Systems, including Organic Electronics

Protonation-dependent adsorption of polyarginine onto silver nanoparticles

Alexander Kyrychenko; Margaret M. Blazhynska; Oleg N. Kalugin

10.1063/1.5138638

Emerging, Interdisciplinary, and Other Fields of Applied Physics

Confinement-induced ordering of grafted nanoparticles aided by diblock copolymers

Supriya Gupta; Paresh Chokshi

10.1063/1.5140738

Physics of Nanoscale and Low-Dimensional Systems, Including Atomic and Quantum Phenomena

Harnessing polymer grafting to control the shape of plasmonic nanoparticles

Ying Zhou; Liting Yan; Tanmoy Maji; Gaëtan Lévêque; Manos Gkikas; George Fytas

10.1063/1.5140459

Physics of Nanoscale and Low-Dimensional Systems, Including Atomic and Quantum Phenomena

Surface switching of mixed polyelectrolyte brushes made of 4-arm stars and linear chains: MD simulations

Shaoyun Wang; Chaohui Tong

10.1063/1.5130643

Organic-Inorganic Systems, including Organic Electronics

Performance improvement of organic resistive memories by exploiting synergistic layered nanohybrid dispersed polymer composites

Koustav Kashyap Gogoi; Avijit Chowdhury

10.1063/1.5131862

Physics of Nanoscale and Low-Dimensional Systems, Including Atomic and Quantum Phenomena

Polyacrylate grafted graphene oxide nanocomposites for biomedical applications

Elison S. Ganya; Navneet Soin; Sabata J. Moloi; James A. McLaughlin; W. F. Pong; Sekhar C. Ray

10.1063/1.5135572

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