This work has focused on the rational development of polymers capable of acting as traps of bile salts. Computational modeling was combined with molecular imprinting technology to obtain networks with high affinity for cholate salts in aqueous medium. The screening of a virtual library of 18 monomers, which are commonly used for imprinted networks, identified N-(3-aminopropyl)-methacrylate hydr...

Electrospinning is a convenient method to produce nanofibers with controlled diameters on the order of tens to hundreds of nanometers. The resulting nonwoven fiber mats are lightweight, highly porous, and have high specific surface areas around 1 to 100 m/g. Combined with the high electrical conductivity of intrinsically conductive polymers, conductive electrospun fiber mats are promising for a...

Amorphous polymers exhibit a rich landscape of time-dependent behavior including viscoelasticity, structural relaxation, and viscoplasticity. These time-dependent mechanisms can be exploited to achieve shape-memory behavior, which allows the material to store a programmed deformed shape indefinitely and to recover entirely the undeformed shape in response to specific environmental stimulus. The...

Dissolution behavior of chemically amplified resist polymers for 248-, 193-, and 157-nm lithography The aqueous base development step is one of the most critical processes in modern lithographic imaging technology. Sinusoidal modulation of the exposing light intensity must be converted to a step function in the resist film during the development process. Thus, in designing high-performance resi...

The donor, side chain, polymerization method, and processing solvent were systematically explored for diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) based donor–acceptor polymers to achieve high-performance fast-response organic electrochemical transistors.

Since the realization that global sustainability depends on renewable sources of materials and energy, there has been an ever-increasing need to develop bio-based polymers that are able to replace petroleum-based polymers. Research in this field has shown strong potential in generating high-performance functionalized polymers from plant biomass. With the anticipated large-scale production of li...