Effects of Primary Structure of Reactive Polymers on Network Structure and Mechanical Properties of Gels

Front Cover: The effects of the primary structure of reactive polymers on the structure and mechanical properties of gels are studied by a molecular dynamics simulation. The figure illustrates the improvement of structure uniformity by changing the arrangement of functional groups from a random one (top) to a periodic one (bottom), where red surfaces show low crosslinking density regions. This is reported by Tsutomu Furuya and Tsuyoshi Koga in article number 2200044.