Effects of Branching on Conformation, Crystallization, and Self-Assembly of Polymers
<p>The central feature of bottlebrush polymers is the stiffening of the main-chain (MC) due to side-chain side-chain (SC-SC) repulsion, amplified by densely grafting long SCs, particularly in good solvent conditions. The expectation of stiffening has led most prior studies to refer to bottleb...