Weihua Li

Prof. Weihua Li

Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China

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Academic Career Length

19Years (2008-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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2 September 2014 in ACS Macro Letters
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Feng Qiu
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An-Chang Shi

3 October 2016 in ACS Macro Letters
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Yicheng Qiang
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Feng Qiu
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An-Chang Shi

27 October 2017 in ACS Macro Letters
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Chao Duan
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An-Chang Shi

16 April 2013 in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
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An-Chang Shi

23 April 2020 in ACS Macro Letters
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An-Chang Shi

11 February 2016 in Physical Review Letters
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An-Chang Shi
The formation of ordered phases from block copolymers is driven by a delicate balance between the monomer-monomer interaction and chain configurational entropy. The configurational entropy can be regulated by designed chain architecture, resulting in a new entropy-driven mechanism to control the self-assembly of ordered phases from block copolymers. An effective routine to regulate the configurational entropy is to utilize multiarm architecture, in which the entropic contribution to the free energy could be qualitatively controlled by the fraction of bridging configurations. As an illustration of this mechanism, the phase behavior of two AB-type multiarm block copolymers, B0−(Bi−Ai)m and (B1−Ai−B2)m where the minority A blocks form cylindrical or spherical domains, are examined using the self-consistent field theory (SCFT). The SCFT results demonstrate that the packing symmetry of the cylinders or spheres can be controlled by the length of the bridging B blocks. Several nonclassical ordered phases, including a novel square array cylinder with p4mm symmetry, are predicted to form from the AB-type multiarm block copolymers.