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Overview

F.A.M. Leermakers is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science, Engineering, and Chemistry, with a substantial focus on several interconnected subfields including Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's published work covers a broad range of topics, notably Surfactants and Colloidal Systems, Polymer Surface Interaction Studies, Material Dynamics and Properties, Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions, Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, Block Copolymer Self-Assembly, and Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics.

Recent papers by F.A.M. Leermakers include:

  • Bioflocculants from wastewater: Insights into adsorption affinity, flocculation mechanisms and mixed particle flocculation based on biopolymer size-fractionation (2020) in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
  • Improving the performance of polymer-flooding produced water electrodialysis through the application of pulsed electric field (2020) in Desalination
  • Effects of feed composition on the fouling on cation-exchange membranes desalinating polymer-flooding produced water (2020) in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
  • Electroresponsive Polyelectrolyte Brushes Studied by Self-Consistent Field Theory (2020) in Polymers
  • Self-limiting aggregation of phospholipid vesicles (2020) in Soft Matter

Frequent co-authors collaborating with F.A.M. Leermakers include Oleg V. Borisov, J. Mieke Kleijn, Ekaterina B. Zhulina, N. de Lange, and H. Brüning.

The scientist has published regularly in several journals, with a notable concentration in the following venues:

  • Soft Matter
  • Macromolecules
  • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Polymers

Best Publications

  • Charged polymeric brushes: structure and scaling relations.

    R. Israëls;F.A.M. Leermakers;G.J. Fleer;E.B. Zhulina

  • Configuration of terminally attached chains at the solid/solvent interface: self-consistent field theory and a Monte Carlo model

    T. Cosgrove;T. Heath;B. Van Lent;F. Leermakers

  • On the Theory of Grafted Weak Polyacids

    R. Israels;F. A. M. Leermakers;G. J. Fleer

  • Analytical Self-Consistent-Field Model of Weak Polyacid Brushes

    Yu. V. Lyatskaya;F. A. M. Leermakers;G. J. Fleer;E. B. Zhulina

  • Double-Faced Micelles from Water-Soluble Polymers

    Ilja K. Voets;Arie de Keizer;Pieter de Waard;Peter M. Frederik

  • Bending rigidity and induced persistence length of molecular bottle brushes : a self-consistent-field theory

    Laurent Feuz;Frans A. M. Leermakers;Marcus Textor;Oleg Borisov

  • Self-Consistent-Field Modeling of Adsorbed β-Casein: Effects of pH and Ionic Strength on Surface Coverage and Density Profile

    Frans A.M. Leermakers;Peter J. Atkinson;Eric Dickinson;David S. Horne

  • Structure and Dynamics of Polyelectrolyte Complex Coacervates Studied by Scattering of Neutrons, X-rays, and Light

    Evan Spruijt;Frans A. M. Leermakers;Remco Fokkink;Ralf Schweins

  • Modeling the structure of a polydisperse polymer brush

    Wiebe M. de Vos;Frans A.M. Leermakers

  • Screening in Solutions of Star-Branched Polyelectrolytes

    J. Klein Wolterink;F.A.M. Leermakers;G.J. Fleer;L.K. Koopal

  • Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids: Excluded Volume and Ion Polarizability Effects in the Electrical Double-Layer Structure and Capacitance

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  • Self-consistent-field modelling of adsorbed casein. Interaction between two protein-coated surfaces.

    Eric Dickinson;Valerie J. Pinfield;David S. Horne;Frans A. M. Leermakers

  • Wetting of a polymer brush by a chemically identical polymer melt : phase diagram and film stability

    J.H. Maas;G.J. Fleer;F.A.M. Leermakers;M.A. Cohen Stuart

  • Substrate-induced structural changes in electrode-adsorbed lipid layers

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  • Theory of the collapse of the polyelectrolyte brush.

    Victor A Pryamitsyn;F. A.M. Leermakers;G. J. Fleer;E. B. Zhulina

  • Electrical Double-Layer Capacitance in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids: Ion-Size and Specific Adsorption Effects

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  • On the statistical thermodynamics of membrane formation.

    F.A.M. Leermakers;J.M.H.M. Scheutjens;J. Lyklema

  • Dendritic versus Linear Polymer Brushes: Self-Consistent Field Modeling, Scaling Theory, and Experiments

    Alexey A. Polotsky;Torben Gillich;Oleg V. Borisov;Oleg V. Borisov;Frans A. M. Leermakers

  • On the Two-Population Structure of Brushes Made of Arm-Grafted Polymer Stars

    Alexey A. Polotsky;Frans A. M. Leermakers;Ekaterina B. Zhulina;Tatiana M. Birshtein;Tatiana M. Birshtein

  • Self-consistent field theory of protein adsorption in a non-Gaussian polyelectrolyte brush.

    P Maarten Biesheuvel;Frans A M Leermakers;Martien A Cohen Stuart

  • Electrostatic interactions between double layers: influence of surface roughness, regulation, and chemical heterogeneities.

    J F L Duval;F A M Leermakers;H P van Leeuwen

  • Statistical thermodynamics of association colloids. III. The gel to liquid phase transition of lipid bilayer membranes

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  • Adsorption of weak polyelectrolytes on surfaces with a variable charge. Self-consistent-field calculations

    Arnoldus W. P. Vermeer;Frans A. M. Leermakers;Luuk K. Koopal

  • Surface forces in a confined polymer melt: self-consistent field analysis of full and restricted equilibrium cases.

    F. A. M. Leermakers;Hans-Jürgen Butt

  • Stationary dynamics approach to analytical approximations for polymer coexistence curves.

    S.M. Scheinhardt-Engels;F.A.M. Leermakers;G.J. Fleer

Frequent Co-Authors

G.J. Fleer
G.J. Fleer Wageningen University & Research
Ekaterina B. Zhulina
Ekaterina B. Zhulina ITMO University
Johannes Lyklema
Johannes Lyklema Wageningen University & Research
Axel H. E. Müller
Axel H. E. Müller Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Willem Norde
Willem Norde Wageningen University & Research

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