Hybrid organic-inorganic block copolymer electrolytes are of interest to enable batteries containing lithium metal anodes. The conductive is a standard polymer electrolyte poly(ethylene oxide) and the mechanically rigid an inorganic poly(acryloisobutyl polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane) polymer. In this paper, we compare silsesquioxane)-b-poly(ethylene oxide)-b-poly(acryloisobutyl (POSS-PEO-...

The onset of polar flocking in active matter is discontinuous, akin to gas-liquid phase transitions, except that the steady state exhibits microphase separation into clusters. While these features have been observed theoretical models and experiments, little known about underlying mesoscopic processes at cluster level. Here we show emergence maintenance order are governed by interplay between a...

The block copolymers are an exceptional kind of macromolecules constituted by two or more blocks of different homopolymer chains linked by covalent bonds. These polymeric materials have received much attention over past few years due in large part to their ability to selfassemble in the melted state or in a selective solvent inside a variety of ordered phases or welldefined structures of high r...

Based on extensive integral-equation calculations and on complementary Monte Carlo simulations we have investigated the phase behaviour of a class of two-dimensional model systems where particles interact via short-range attractive and long-range repulsive potentials. While for a particular member of this class of systems microphase formation has already been studied in detail in the literature...

In this report, hierarchical self-organization of poly(tert-butyl acrylate) (PtBA) brushand mixed PtBA/ polystyrene (PS) brush-grafted silica nanoparticles (NPs) in PtBA-b-PS block copolymer and PtBA/PS polymer blend matrices having different molecular weights was investigated using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Driven by the entropic interactions between the brushes and the polymer m...