Bottlebrush polymer gels: architectural control over swelling and osmotic bulk modulus.
Soft Matter
; 18(6): 1239-1246, 2022 Feb 09.
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ABSTRACT
Swelling behaviour and bulk moduli of polymer gels comprising of crosslinked bottlebrush subchains enable fine tuning by varying polymerization degrees of the main and side chains of the bottlebrush strands as well as their grafting densities. By using scaling approach we predict power law dependences of structural and elastic properties of swollen bottlebrush gels on the set of relevant architectural parameters and construct phase diagrams consisting of regions corresponding to different power law asymptotics for these dependences. In particular, our theory predict that bulk elastic modulus of the gel exhibits non-monotonous dependence on the degree of polymerization of side chains of the bottlebrush strands.
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Soft Matter
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2022
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Federação Russa