ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Direct visualization of bottlebrush polymer conformations in the solid state.
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- Record-High Latent Heat, Ultra-Fast Relaxation and Closed-Loop Recycling Double-Brush Polymer Networks for Self-Adaptive Thermal Interface Management.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Backbone Dynamics of Bottlebrush Polymers Studied by Neutron Scattering.Macromolecules · 2025Article
- Reconciling Chain Orientation in Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles between Coarse-Grained Models and Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering.ACS nano · 2025Article
- Molecular Structure of Foldable Bottlebrush Polymers in Melts.Macromolecules · 2025Article
- Extreme dependence of dynamics on concentration in highly crowded polyelectrolyte solutions.Science advances · 2024Article
- Bottlebrush Networks: A Primer for Advanced Architectures.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2024Review
- Fluorescence-readout as a powerful macromolecular characterisation tool.Chemical science · 2023Review
- Structure-Reactivity-Property Relationships in Covalent Adaptable Networks.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2022Review
- Mesoscale Modeling of Agglomeration of Molecular Bottlebrushes: Focus on Conformations and Clustering Criteria.Polymers · 2022Article
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Abstract
Although the behavior of single chains is integral to the foundation of polymer science, a clear and convincing image of single chains in the solid state has still not been captured. For bottlebrush polymers, understanding their conformation in bulk materials is especially important because their extended backbones may explain their self-assembly and mechanical properties that have been attractive for many applications. Here, single-bottlebrush chains are visualized using single-molecule localization microscopy to study their conformations in a polymer melt composed of linear polymers. By observing bottlebrush polymers with different side chain lengths and grafting densities, we observe the relationship between molecular architecture and conformation. We show that bottlebrushes are significantly more rigid in the solid state than previously measured in solution, and the scaling relationships between persistence length and side chain length deviate from those predicted by theory and simulation. We discuss these discrepancies using mechanisms inspired by polymer-grafted nanoparticles, a conceptually similar system. Our work provides a platform for visualizing single-polymer chains in an environment made up entirely of other polymers, which could answer a number of open questions in polymer science.
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