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Polymers, Volume 11, Issue 2

February 2019 - 200 articles

Cover Story: The electrochromic properties of conductive polymers make them suitable for use in energy-efficient reflective displays and labels. This work explores a UV patterning technique combined with vapor phase polymerization to form electrochromic conductive polymer films embedded with greyscale high-resolution images. A novel device architecture enables picture-to-picture displays in which two such overlapping images can be made to appear and disappear one at a time, by reciprocal oxidation and reduction of two patterned conductive polymer films. Finally, the study demonstrates that the patterning technique can also be used to form electrochromic patterns on porous paper substrates. View Paper here.
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Articles (200)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,908 Views
12 Pages

25 February 2019

To reduce the intense terahertz (THz) wave absorption of water and increase the signal-to-noise ratio, the THz spectroscopy detection of biomolecules usually operates using the nanofluidic channel technologies in practice. The effects of confinement...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,870 Views
13 Pages

Synthesis and Physical Properties of Non-Crystalline Nylon 6 Containing Dimer Acid

  • Ching-Nan Huang,
  • Chang-Mou Wu,
  • Hao-Wen Lo,
  • Chiu-Chun Lai,
  • Wei-Feng Teng,
  • Lung-Chang Liu and
  • Chien-Ming Chen

25 February 2019

In this study, a long carbon chain dimer acid is introduced into a nylon 6 structure and is copolymerized with different structural amines to produce amorphous nylon 6 by 4,4′-methylenebis(2-methylcyclohexylamine) (MMCA) in different copolymeri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,775 Views
8 Pages

Effect of Hydration in Corona Layer on Structural Change of Thermo-Responsive Polymer Micelles

  • Yusuke Akino,
  • Kosuke Morimoto,
  • Kengo Tsuboi,
  • Satoshi Kanazawa and
  • Isamu Akiba

22 February 2019

The effect of hydration in corona layer on temperature responsiveness of polymer micelles consisting of poly(N-vinyl pyrrolidone)-block-poly(n-octadecyl acrylate) (PVP-b-PODA) was investigated. Small-angle X-ray scattering and dynamic light scatterin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,664 Views
16 Pages

22 February 2019

In this paper, we present our work on high-efficiency multi-junction polymer and hybrid solar cells. The transfer matrix method is used for optical modeling of an organic solar cell, which was inspired by the McGehee Group in Stanford University. The...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
9,973 Views
28 Pages

Emergence of Flexible White Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

  • Dongxiang Luo,
  • Qizan Chen,
  • Baiquan Liu and
  • Ying Qiu

22 February 2019

Flexible white organic light-emitting diodes (FWOLEDs) have considerable potential to meet the rapidly growing requirements of display and lighting commercialization. To achieve high-performance FWOLEDs, (i) the selection of effective flexible substr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,855 Views
12 Pages

21 February 2019

Delayed crosslinking polymer gel systems are widely utilized in deep profile control processes for water production control in oilfields. In this paper, a kind of delayed crosslinking amphiphilic polymer gel system with adjustable gelation time based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,969 Views
14 Pages

21 February 2019

The flame retardant modification of epoxy (EP) is of great signification for aerospace, automotive, marine, and energy industries. In this study, a series of EP composites containing different variations of phosphorus-containing polysulfone (with a p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,863 Views
15 Pages

20 February 2019

Environmentally friendly food packaging currently attracts much interest. Sodium trimetaphosphate (STMP) finds specialized applications in food, but it is rarely used as a crosslinking agent. In this study, STMP was used as a crosslinking agent to pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
10,187 Views
13 Pages

Spray-Formed Layered Polymer Microneedles for Controlled Biphasic Drug Delivery

  • Seok Chan Park,
  • Min Jung Kim,
  • Seung-Ki Baek,
  • Jung-Hwan Park and
  • Seong-O Choi

20 February 2019

In this study we present polymeric microneedles composed of multiple layers to control drug release kinetics. Layered microneedles were fabricated by spraying poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) in sequence, and were c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,371 Views
9 Pages

20 February 2019

Although the tube framework has achieved remarkable success to describe entangled polymer dynamics, the chain motion assumed in tube theories is still a matter of discussion. Recently, Xu et al. [ACS Macro Lett. 2018, 7, 190–195] performed a mo...

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