Research Interests
- Self-consistent field theory study on phase behavior of mutli-component polymer systems; nucleation, micelle, macrophase separation, microphase separation
- Single-chain-in-mean-field simulation on multicomponent polymer brushes in solvents; block copolymer brush, mixed homopolymer brush, microphase separation, integral geometry analysis, memory effect
- Structure, rheology and dynamics of entangled polymeric systems, and physical gels; entanglement,reptation,wall slip, shear banding
- Fluid membranes; diffusion,phase separation,deformation
- Charged polymeric systems
Selected Publications
12. Olha Hoy, Bogdan Zdyrko, Robert Lupitskyy, Roman Sheparovych, Dennis Aulich, Jiafang Wang, Eva Bittrich, Petra Uhlmann, Karsten Hinrichs, Marcus Mueller, Manfred Stamm, Sergiy Minko, Igor Luzinov, Synthetic Hydrophilic Materials with Tunable Strength and Range of Hydrophobic Interactions, submitted (2009).
11.Jiafang Wang*, Nian Bao, Kunkun Guo, Lijia An, Marcus Mueller, Zhen-Gang Wang, Micelles of Coil-Comb Block Copolymer in Selective Solvents: Competition of Length Scales, submitted (2009).
10.Jiafang Wang* and Marcus Müller, Memory Effects of Diblock Copolymer Brushes and Mixed Brushes, Langmuir, submitted (2009)
9.Jiafang Wang* and Marcus Müller, Microphase Separation of Mixed Polymer Brushes: Dependence of the Morphology on Grafting Density, Composition, Chain-Length Asymmetry, Solvent Quality and Selectivity, J. Phys. Chem. B 113, 11384 (2009)
8.Jiafang Wang*, Marcus Müller and Zhen-Gang Wang, Nucleation in A/B/AB Blends: Interplay between Microscopic Assembly and Macrophase Separation, J. Chem. Phys. 130, 154902 (2009).
7.Jiafang Wang* and Marcus Müller, Microphase Separation of Diblock Copolymer Brushes in Selective Solvents: Single-Chain-in-Mean-Field Simulations and Integral Geometry Analysis, Macromolecules 42, 2251 (2009).
6.Kunkun Guo, Jiafang Wang, Feng Qiu, Hongdong Zhang and Yuliang Yang*, Shapes of Fluid Vesicles Anchored by Polymer Chains, Soft Matter, 5(8),1646-1655(2009).
5.Jiafang Wang, Kunkun Guo, Feng Qiu, Hongdong Zhang and Yuliang Yang*,Predicting shapes of polymer-chain-anchored fluid vesicles,Phys. Rev. E 71(4),041908 (2005).
4. Jiafang Wang, Zhen-Gang Wang* and Yuliang Yang*, Nature of disordered micelles in sphere-forming block copolymer melts, Macromolecules 38(5), 1979-1988 (2005).
3. Jiafang Wang, Zhen-Gang Wang* and Yuliang Yang*, Nucleation in binary polymer blends: Effects of foreign mesoscopic spherical particles, J. Chem. Phys.121(2), 1105-1113 (2004).
2. Jiafang Wang,Hongdong Zhang, Feng Qiu, Zhen-Gang Wang* and Yuliang Yang*, Nucleation in binary polymer blends: Effects of adding diblock copolymers, J. Chem. Phys.118(19),8997-9006 (2003).
1. Jiafang Wang,Hongdong Zhang, Feng Qiu,and Yuliang Yang*, Self-consistent field theory of mixtures of flexible polymers and small liquid crystalline molecules, Acta Chimica Sinica 61(8), 1180-1185 (2003).
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