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Polymers, Volume 11, Issue 3

March 2019 - 185 articles

Cover Story: A new type of atropisomerism has recently been discovered in 1,3-benzoxazines, where the intramolecular repulsion between negatively charged oxygen atoms on the imide and the oxazine ring hinders the rotation about the C–N bond. This cover image schematically illustrates how the atropisomerization in ortho-imide functional benzoxazines can be switched on or off by the manipulation of the steric structure of the end caps. Additionally, the polymerization behavior of benzoxazine monomers and the properties of the corresponding polybenzoxazines can also be controlled well by the imide end caps. The high thermal stability of this series of ortho-imide functional polybenzoxazines indicates their great potential in applications such as fire-resistant materials, electronic encapsulation materials, and polymeric matrices for high-performance composites. View Paper here.
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Articles (185)

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,847 Views
11 Pages

Optimizing Polymer Solar Cells Using Non-Halogenated Solvent Blends

  • Guler Kocak,
  • Desta Gedefaw and
  • Mats R. Andersson

22 March 2019

More environmentally friendly polymer solar cells were constructed using a conjugated polymer, poly (2,5-thiophene-alt-4,9-bis(2-hexyldecyl)-4,9-dihydrodithieno[3,2-c:3′,2′h][1,5] naphthyridine-5,10-dione, PTNT, as a donor material in com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,597 Views
17 Pages

22 March 2019

To improve the flame retardancy and inhibit the smoke of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET), carbon microspheres (CMSs)-based melamine phosphate (MP) hybrids (MP-CMSs) were constructed in situ with the introduction of CMSs into the hydrothermal react...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,368 Views
13 Pages

Facile Preparation of Highly Conductive Poly(amide-imide) Composite Films beyond 1000 S m−1 through Ternary Blend Strategy

  • Yanbin Wang,
  • Huang Yu,
  • Yongchao Li,
  • Teng Wang,
  • Tao Xu,
  • Jinxing Chen,
  • Zicheng Fan,
  • Yufeng Wang and
  • Biaobing Wang

22 March 2019

Highly conductive thin films with suitable mechanical performances play a significant role in modern electronic industry. Herein, a series of ternary conductive polymer composites were fabricated by incorporating carbon black (CB) into binary conduct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,275 Views
15 Pages

(Bio)degradable Polymeric Materials for Sustainable Future—Part 2: Degradation Studies of P(3HB-co-4HB)/Cork Composites in Different Environments

  • Sebastian Jurczyk,
  • Marta Musioł,
  • Michał Sobota,
  • Magdalena Klim,
  • Anna Hercog,
  • Piotr Kurcok,
  • Henryk Janeczek and
  • Joanna Rydz

22 March 2019

The degree of degradation of pure poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate) [P(3HB-co-4HB)] and its composites with cork incubated under industrial and laboratory composting conditions was investigated. The materials were parallelly incubated in d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,585 Views
10 Pages

22 March 2019

Tannin/cellulose microspheres (T/C) were successfully prepared via a facile homogeneous reaction in a water/oil (W/O) emulsion for removing Pb(II) ions from aqueous solution. The structure of the microspheres was characterized by scanning electron mi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
107 Citations
9,118 Views
19 Pages

22 March 2019

The aim of the study was to improve the electrical and thermal conductivity of the polylactic acid/wood flour/thermoplastic polyurethane composites by Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM). The results showed that, when the addition amount of nano-graphite...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,071 Views
13 Pages

Electrospinning of Ethylene Vinyl Acetate/Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposite Fibers

  • Mária Omastová,
  • Eliška Číková and
  • Matej Mičušík

22 March 2019

Nanocomposites, based on an ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymer with a vinyl acetate content of 34 wt % and varying amounts of multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), were prepared by an electrospinning method. The dispersibility of the MWCNTs in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,825 Views
12 Pages

22 March 2019

Olefin block copolymer (OBC), with its low hard segments, can form unique space-filling spherulites other than confined-crystallization morphologies, mainly due to its weak phase-separation. In this work, 1,3;2,4-Bis(3,4-dimethylbenzylidene) sorbitol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,496 Views
10 Pages

22 March 2019

A polyelectrolyte film-coated electrode for the quantitative detection of glucose was reported. Carbon nanotubes, graphene oxide and polyelectrolyte with a ferrocenyl group were used to modify an enzyme electrode to facilitate the electron transfer b...

  • Review
  • Open Access
58 Citations
11,712 Views
31 Pages

Polymer-Based Device Fabrication and Applications Using Direct Laser Writing Technology

  • Zhen-Lin Wu,
  • Ya-Nan Qi,
  • Xiao-Jie Yin,
  • Xin Yang,
  • Chang-Ming Chen,
  • Jing-Ying Yu,
  • Jia-Chen Yu,
  • Yu-Meng Lin,
  • Fang Hui and
  • Peng-Li Liu
  • + 3 authors

22 March 2019

Polymer materials exhibit unique properties in the fabrication of optical waveguide devices, electromagnetic devices, and bio-devices. Direct laser writing (DLW) technology is widely used for micro-structure fabrication due to its high processing pre...

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