supported by The Project of“20 Items of University”of Jinan(Grant No.202228078);Innovative Research Team in Higher Educational Institutions of Shandong Province(Grant No.2023KJ107);Taishan Scholars Program of Shandong Province(tsqn201812085);National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51903102,Grant No.52376063,Grant No.52302256);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.2023MD744223).
Harvesting the immense and renewable osmotic energy with reverse electrodialysis(RED)technology shows great promise in dealing with the ever-growing energy crisis.One key challenge is to improve the output power densi...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.22273112 and 22203100).
Polyelectrolytes(PEs)are polymers carrying ionizable groups along the chain backbone and play an important role in life and environmental sciences,industrial applications and other fields.Due to the complicated topolo...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21774067);The Foundation of Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics of Zhejiang Province(No.2023FE004);C.T.acknowledges the support from K.C.Wong Magna at Ningbo University。
The self-consistent field theory(SCFT)was employed to numerically study the interaction and interpenetration between two opposing weak polyelectrolyte(PE)brushes formed by grafting weak PE chains onto the surfaces of ...
support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.52120105007);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2019Y FA0708700)are gratefully acknowledged.
Polymerflooding is an effective method widely applied for enhancing oil recovery(EOR)by reducing the mobility ratio between theinjected water and crude oil.However,traditional polymers encounter challenges in high sali...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (52273036, 52003133);“Youth Innovation Team Plan” of Colleges and Universities of Shandong Province (2022KJ299);State Key Laboratory of Bio-Fibers and Eco-Textiles,Qingdao University(G2RC202024 and ZDKT202006);the Program for Taishan Scholar of Shandong Province (NO. tstp20231226)
Developing a straightforward strategy for constructing highly processable photonic crystals(PCs) is crucial for various applications, yet remains a challenge. Here, we present a simple polyelectrolyte-induced self-ass...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China(No.ZR2023QB278);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.92061120).
Polyelectrolytes are charged polymers comprising macromolecules in which substantial portions of the constituent units contain cationic(e.g.,pyridinium,ammonium)or anionic(e.g.,sulfonate,carboxylate)groups,which posse...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21673002,21473012 and 21173025).
Polyelectrolyte solutions are more variable than uncharged macromolecule due to electrical interaction between charged molecules and surrounding counterions.Therefore,the subject of polyelectrolyte solutions has attra...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21978079).
Polyelectrolyte brushes(PEBs)are commonly used to modify surface that have attracted great research interest.The dielectric permittivity of the grafted surface is typically significantly different from that of solutio...
supported by the Major Science and Technology Projects for Independent Innovation of China FAW Group Co., Ltd. (No. 20220301018GX);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 9237210012, 22073094 and 21474109);the Science and Technology Development Program of Jilin Province (Nos. 20240602003RC and 20210402059GH);the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers (Fudan University) (No. K2023-08);the Program for Young Scholars in Regional Development of CAS
We utilize molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the microstructures of ions and polyelectrolytes in aqueous solutions under external electric fields.By focusing on the multi-body interactions between ionic co...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21574139 and 21973103)
We present the results of molecular dynamics simulations of steady shear between a pair of neutral polymer brushes,as well as a pair of charged polymer brushes in the strongly compressed regime.The results of the mole...