Bobby G. Sumpter

TL;DR: This paper demonstrates the surface-confined growth of ordered arrays of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) chains, by using the substrate (the 110 facet of copper) simultaneously as template and catalyst for polymerization, and confirms an unexpected adsorption geometry of the PEDOT oligomers.

TL;DR: Density functional calculations show that these structures are mechanically strong, the bonding at the interface is covalent, and the electronic states at and around the Fermi level are delocalized across the entire system, essential for the application of such heterojunctions as contacts in electronic devices and for the fabrication of robust nanotube–metal composite materials.

TL;DR: The gaps that currently constrain the processing range of these platforms are laid out, reflect on indirect requirements, such as the integration of large-scale data analysis with theory, and discuss future prospects of these technologies.

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed analysis of coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of semi-lexible polymer melts in contact with a strongly adsorbing substrate is presented, where the segments in the interfacial layer are characterized by counting the number of trains, loops, tails, and unadsorbed segments.