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Record W4410958630 · doi:10.1002/smtd.202500140

A General Approach to Predict and Tailor the Nanoscale Permeability of Comb‐Shaped Polymer Coatings

2025· article· en· W4410958630 on OpenAlex

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueSmall Methods · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicPolymer Surface Interaction Studies
Canadian institutionsInstitut National de la Recherche ScientifiqueOntario Tech University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsSteric effectsPolymerMaterials scienceNanoscopic scaleCoatingMolecular dynamicsMethacrylateNanotechnologyChemical physicsChemical engineeringChemistryComputational chemistryComposite materialPolymerizationOrganic chemistry

Abstract

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Comb-shaped polymers such as poly(oligoethylene glycol monomethyl ether) methacrylate) (pOEGMA) are used to produce molecular sieving coatings on proteins. The mechanisms and phenomena implicated in the experimentally observed sieving properties have been recently characterized by simulation. These result from an interplay between steric hindrance, microenvironmental effects, and modified protein dynamics. Steric hindrance, in particular, is expected to vary considerably as a function of the geometric parameters of the system (protein size, polymer size, grafting density, etc.). In this work, the steric and size-selective permeability characteristics of comb-polymer coatings are systematically explored across a very broad parameter space to gain a universal and predictive view of molecular sieving, for application to systems with different dimensions. All features of the data can be understood when three distinct regimes are considered: i) no-interactions, ii) weak-interactions, and iii) strong-interactions between adjacent polymer chains. Primary and secondary considerations are provided for tuning coating properties to adjust the size threshold of molecular sieving. The corresponding qualitative physical pictures and quantitative analyses give a robust framework to understand molecular sieving that will accelerate the development of future coatings.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.139
Threshold uncertainty score0.404

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.356
Teacher spread0.311 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it