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Polymers, Volume 10, Issue 1

January 2018 - 105 articles

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Cover Story: Bio-based PLA-mb-PBS copolymers are fascinating double crystalline materials whose properties can be tailored by composition, stereocomplexation and thermal treatments. When they are cooled from the melt, the PLA component crystallizes, creating superstructures, such as spherulites or axialites, which constitute templates within which the PBS component crystallizes when the sample is cooled down further. Solution mixtures of PLLA-mb-PBS and PLDA-mb-PBS copolymers, as well as copolymer/homopolymer blends, form stereocomplexes of PLLA and PDLA chain segments. The PBS chain segments can perturb or enhance PLA stereocomplexation depending on their content. View this paper

Articles (105)

  • Communication
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,838 Views
8 Pages

Magnetically Tunable Vibration Transmissibility for Polyurethane Magnetic Elastomers

  • Hiroyuki Endo,
  • Shunsuke Kato,
  • Mayuko Watanebe,
  • Takehito Kikuchi,
  • Mika Kawai and
  • Tetsu Mitsumata

22 January 2018

The effect of a weak magnetic field on vibration transmissibility was investigated for magnetic elastomers with various volume fractions of magnetic particles. Polyurethane elastomers without magnetic particles exhibited a natural frequency at 53 Hz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
13,077 Views
16 Pages

22 January 2018

A machine learning strategy is presented for the rapid discovery of new polymeric materials satisfying multiple desirable properties. Of particular interest is the design of high refractive index polymers. Our in silico approach employs a series of q...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,940 Views
17 Pages

22 January 2018

Mixed Pluronic micelles from very hydrophobic and very hydrophilic copolymers were selected to scrutinize the synergistic effect on the self-assembly process as well as the solubilization capacity of ibuprofen. The tendency of mixing behavior between...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
9,789 Views
17 Pages

Highly Zeolite-Loaded Polyvinyl Alcohol Composite Membranes for Alkaline Fuel-Cell Electrolytes

  • Po-Ya Hsu,
  • Ting-Yu Hu,
  • Selvaraj Rajesh Kumar,
  • Chia-Hao Chang,
  • Kevin C.-W. Wu,
  • Kuo-Lun Tung and
  • Shingjiang Jessie Lue

22 January 2018

Having a secure and stable energy supply is a top priority for the global community. Fuel-cell technology is recognized as a promising electrical energy generation system for the twenty-first century. Polyvinyl alcohol/zeolitic imidazolate framework-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,771 Views
16 Pages

A Combined Self-Consistent Method to Estimate the Effective Properties of Polypropylene/Calcium Carbonate Composites

  • Zhongqiang Xiong,
  • Shaorong Lu,
  • Junkun Liu,
  • Guangsheng Lv,
  • Yuqi Li and
  • Jinhong Yu

21 January 2018

In this work, trying to avoid difficulty of application due to the irregular filler shapes in experiments, self-consistent and differential self-consistent methods were combined to obtain a decoupled equation. The combined method suggests a tenor γ i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,316 Views
19 Pages

Novel Antibacterial Polyglycidols: Relationship between Structure and Properties

  • Fabian Marquardt,
  • Cornelia Stöcker,
  • Rita Gartzen,
  • Elisabeth Heine,
  • Helmut Keul and
  • Martin Möller

20 January 2018

Antimicrobial polymers are an attractive alternative to low molecular weight biocides, because they are non-volatile, chemically stable, and can be used as non-releasing additives. Polymers with pendant quaternary ammonium groups and hydrophobic chai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,878 Views
11 Pages

Synthesis of Molecularly Imprinted Cryogels to Deplete Abundant Proteins from Bovine Serum

  • Chun Yang,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Wei-Qin Cao,
  • Xiao-Feng Ji,
  • Jian Wang,
  • Ya-Nan Yan,
  • Tao-Lin Zhong and
  • Yu Wang

20 January 2018

Molecularly imprinted polyacrylamide cryogels were synthesized with pending templates (bovine serums of different concentrations). As the serum concentrations increased in the monomer solutions, the resulting cryogels could adsorb and deplete more pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,565 Views
13 Pages

Temperature-Responsive Polymer Microgel-Gold Nanorods Composite Particles: Physicochemical Characterization and Cytocompatibility

  • Aslam Khan,
  • Tajdar Husain Khan,
  • Maqusood Ahamed,
  • Ahmed Mohamed El-Toni,
  • Ali Aldalbahi,
  • Javed Alam and
  • Tansir Ahamad

20 January 2018

In this paper, we report an easy route for preparing new metal nanorod-polymer composites consisting of gold nanorods, Au NRs, and temperature responsive copolymer “microgel” particles. The microgel particles of ~200 nm in size, which contain carboxy...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,369 Views
8 Pages

Photoluminescence Enhancement of Poly(3-methylthiophene) Nanowires upon Length Variable DNA Hybridization

  • Jingyuan Huang,
  • Jinho Choi,
  • Gil Sun Lee,
  • Fengchun Chen,
  • Chunzhi Cui,
  • Long Yi Jin and
  • Dong Hyuk Park

20 January 2018

The use of low-dimensional inorganic or organic nanomaterials has advantages for DNA and protein recognition due to their sensitivity, accuracy, and physical size matching. In this research, poly(3-methylthiophene) (P3MT) nanowires (NWs) are electroc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
6,874 Views
19 Pages

Flexural Behaviour of Carbon Textile-Reinforced Concrete with Prestress and Steel Fibres

  • Yunxing Du,
  • Xinying Zhang,
  • Lingling Liu,
  • Fen Zhou,
  • Deju Zhu and
  • Wei Pan

20 January 2018

Four-point bending tests were adopted to investigate the influences of the number of textile layers, volume content of steel fibres, and prestress on the flexural behaviour of carbon textile-reinforced concrete (TRC). The failure mode of the specimen...

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