Institute of Solution Chemistry

Molecular mechanisms of supercritical CO2-induced interfacial softening in curcumin polymorphs

Unique properties of supercritical CO 2 (scCO 2 ) make it one of the most interesting “green” solvents for pharmaceutical particle formation and polymorph engineering. However, due to the complexity of the scCO 2 dynamics, the molecular mechanisms by which scCO 2 alters the stabi...

Stress tensor of inhomogeneous flexible polymer chain solutions beyond the ground-state dominance approximation

We derive the stress tensor of a flexible polymer solution within the Gaussian-chain self-consistent field theory (SCFT) without invoking the ground-state dominance (GSD) approximation. Starting from a covariant formulation of the single-chain partition function in a background m...