The design of “smart” coatings and structural materials continue to offer immense promise in many emerging technologies ranging from self-healing coatings to stimuli-responsive drug delivery vehicles. Significant advances demand integration across length scales, ranging from non-covalent interactions and self-assembly at the nanometer dimension to the engineering and fabrication of functional d...

This study examines the incorporation of TiO2 into sodium borosilicate glasses and its effect on formation glassy crystalline microphases. Glasses in composition range: 7Na2O–23B2O3–(70 - X)SiO2–XTiO2 (where X = 0–14.6 mol.% TiO2) which exhibit phase separation were investigated. Raman studies confirm two different coordinations depending molar content TiO2. Thermal properties are unaffected by...

Understanding working principles and thermodynamics behind phase separations, which have significant influences on condensed molecular structures their performances, can inspire to design fabricate anomalously desirably mechanoresponsive hydrogels. However, a combination of techniques from physicochemistry mechanics has yet been established for the separation in In this study, thermodynamic mod...

Perfluoropolyether tetraol (PFPE tetraol) possesses a hydrophobic perfluoropolyether chain in the backbone and two hydroxyl groups at each chain terminal, which facilitates the formation of hydrogen bonds with water molecules resulting in the formation an extended physical network. About 3 wt% water was required for the formation of the microphase separated physical network of PFPE tetraol. The...

Here, we report the mechanisms of chiral transfer at various length scales in the self-assembly of enantiomeric chiral block copolymers (BCPs*). We show the evolution of homochirality from molecular chirality into phase chirality in the self-assembly of the BCPs*. The chirality of the molecule in the BCP* is identified from circular dichroism (CD) spectra, while the handedness of the helical co...