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Suckerin in squid sucker ring teeth is a block‐copolymer peptide comprised of two repeating modules—the alanine and histidine‐rich M1 and the glycine‐rich M2. Suckerin self‐assemblies display excellent thermo‐plasticity and pH‐responsive properties, along with the high biocompatibility, biodegradability, and sustainability. However, the self‐assembly mechanism and the detailed role of each module...
The self-consistent field theory (SCFT) is employed to numerically study the scaling laws of brush height and the amount of counter-ions trapped inside a spherical polyelectrolyte (PE) brush immersed in a good solvent with no added salt ions. In particular, the curvature effect of the grafting substrate on the brush height and the amount of counter-ions trapped inside the PE brush is carefully examined...
The continuum self-consistent-field theory (SCFT) is employed to study the adsorption of bi-disperse flexible polyelectrolytes (PEs) on two charged parallel columns. The effects of the bi-dispersity in terms of the average volume fractions and chain lengths of two kinds of chemically identical charged homo-polymers on the total amount of absorbed PE chains, the degree of charge compensation, and the...
Using the continuum self-consistent field theory (SCFT), the adsorption of flexible homo-polymers onto the surfaces of two identical cylinders immersed in a neutral polymer solution is studied. The effects of various system parameters (the chain length, the radius of the cylinders, the number density of objects, the intensity of short-region field, etc.) on the bridging chain conformation and the...
The complex microstructures of bidisperse nanoparticles/diblock copolymer mixtures in dilute solutions have been investigated by a theoretical approach which combines the self-consistent field theory (SCFT) and the density functional theory (DFT). Special attention is payed to the role played by the block ratio and the interaction parameters between each component in the mixture. It is shown that...
The formation of vesicles in a binary blend of an amphiphilic diblock copolymer AB/homopolymer C was studied in a dilute solution using the real space two-dimensional self-consistent field theory (SCFT). Special attention was played to the role played by the homopolymer C in controlling the vesicle formation. In the simulations, it was found that as the averaged volume fraction of homopolymer C was...
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