Theoretical advances in molecular bottlebrushes and comblike (co)polymers: solutions, gels, and self-assembly

Ekaterina B Zhulina (1) , Sergei S Sheiko (2) , Oleg V. Borisov (3)

1 Institute of Macromolecular Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Bolshoy pr. V.O. 31, 199004 St. Petersburg, Russia
2 UNC - University of North Carolina [Chapel Hill]
3 IPREM - Institut des sciences analytiques et de physico-chimie pour l'environnement et les materiaux

This review presents an overview of recent theoretical developments in increasingly complex polymer systems comprising comb-like or bottlebrush building blocks and compares theoretical predictions to experimental results.

Domains: Chemical Sciences

Ekaterina B Zhulina, Sergei S Sheiko, Oleg V. Borisov. Theoretical advances in molecular bottlebrushes and comblike (co)polymers: solutions, gels, and self-assembly. Soft Matter, 2022, ⟨10.1039/D2SM01141G⟩. ⟨hal-03871165⟩