Gallery: Scientific Pictures

Potential amide bond formation during the crosslinking process between two monomers-trimesoyl chloride and m-phenylenediamine (Image created with Blender using the GAFF force field.)

Artistic representation of molecules with crystalline moieties attached (Image created with Blender.)

Nanopore consisting of a carbon nanotube surrounded by a polymeric matrix. (Image created with VMD from an MD trajectory.)

Periodic nanochannel composed of a graphene layer and an underlying substrate of three stacked layers of hexagonal boron nitride, with water flowing inside. (Image created with OVITO from an MD trajectory.)

Nanoscopic water contact angle measurement on a polymer substrate coated with graphene. (Image created with OVITO from an MD trajectory.)

Linear polymer chain with polyethylene oxide chemistry. (Image created with OVITO from an MD trajectory.)

Artistic representation of a non-relaxed (initial configuration) polymer melt. (Image created with OVITO and other tools.)

Artistic representation of a polymer melt and its primitive path. (Image created with OVITO and other tools from an MD trajectory.)

Schematic of a slip-link model used to describe entangled polymer dynamics. (Image created with Blender.)

Schematic representation of an end-on side-chain liquid crystal polymer. (Image created with OVITO from an MD trajectory.)

Schematic representation of a side-on side-chain liquid crystal polymer. (Image created with OVITO from an MD trajectory.)

Computational box filled with side-on side-chain liquid crystal polymers at high temperature. (Image created with OVITO from an MD trajectory.)

End-on side-chain liquid crystal polymeric system at low temperature, where a lamellar and smectic-B mesophase can be observed. (Image created with OVITO from an MD trajectory.)

Side-on side-chain liquid crystal polymeric system at low temperature, where a quasi-hexagonal and nematic mesophase can be observed. (Image created with OVITO from an MD trajectory.)