RESEARCH AREA
Polymer Films
Ultrathin films of block copolymers or its mixture. Phase diagrams.
Planar brushes diblock copolymers or gradient copolymers.
Thin films of block copolymers. Мorphology, orientation of domains. Swelling. Phase behaviour during solvent vapour annealing, influence of interfaces, solvent distribution.
Polyelectrolytes
Associating polyelectrolytes with stickers, liquid crystalline polyelectrolytes and polyelectrolyte micelles.
Ampholyte microgel particles with statistacal, core-shell or Januslike distribution of charged groups. Interaction with proteins.
Interpolyelectrolyte complexes. Overcharging effect.
Polymers on surface
Comblike polymers (molecular brushes) adsorbed on a surface. Asymmetric distribution of side chains. Spontaneous curvature of backbone.
Molecular motors. Directed motion along the pattern.
Surface micelles of block copolymers or its mixture.
Liquid Crystals
Liquid crystalline polyelectrolytes.
Polymer films of block copolymers with liquid crystalline groups. Smectic and amorphous nanodomain structures.
Polymer Solutions
Copolymers for efficient stabilization of colloidal particles
Neutral and polyelectrolyte micelles of block copolymers and its mixture.
Ionic liquids
Extra solvent power of IL.
Decrease of the surface tension at the boundary of IL and non-ionic liquids. Formation of clusters of IL in non-ionic liquid.