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Polymers, Volume 12, Issue 3

March 2020 - 229 articles

Cover Story: The efficient regeneration of a fully functional tissue assisted by the presence of a polymeric scaffold depends on its design and the manufacturing method used. The incorporation of bioactive compounds during scaffold processing is of particular interest to improve environment–scaffold interactions. Namely, solvent-free manufacturing techniques offer remarkable advantages in terms of incorporation yield and retained activity of the loaded bioactive agents. In this work, solvent-free technologies for the processing of scaffolds are discussed, highlighting meaningful cases reported in the regenerative medicine field. View this paper.
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Articles (229)

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,417 Views
13 Pages

Dielectric Relaxation in the Hybrid Epoxy/MWCNT/MnFe2O4 Composites

  • Darya Meisak,
  • Jan Macutkevic,
  • Artyom Plyushch,
  • Polina Kuzhir,
  • Algirdas Selskis and
  • Juras Banys

21 March 2020

The electrical properties of epoxy/MWCNT (multi-walled carbon nanotubes)/MnFe2O4 hybrid composites loaded with MWCNTs (below, 0.09 vol.%, and above, 0.58 vol.%, percolation threshold) and varying concentrations of MnFe2O4 up to 10 vol.% were studied...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,090 Views
13 Pages

Synthesis and Investigation of Thermo-Induced Gelation of Partially Cross-Linked Poly-2-isopropyl-2-oxazoline in Aqueous Media

  • Alina Amirova,
  • Serafim Rodchenko,
  • Mikhail Kurlykin,
  • Andrey Tenkovtsev,
  • Illia Krasnou,
  • Andres Krumme and
  • Alexander Filippov

21 March 2020

Water-soluble, partially cross-linked poly-2-isopropyl-2-oxazoline combining the properties of chemical and physical gels was synthesized by a two-step procedure. Thermally induced sol-gel transition in its aqueous solution was studied by rheology, l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
7,580 Views
14 Pages

21 March 2020

Recently, natural sun blockers have been drawing considerable attention because synthetic UV filters could have adverse effects not only on humans but also on the environment. Even though lignin, the second most abundant renewable resource on earth,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,757 Views
19 Pages

21 March 2020

Gypsum molds have been developed as an alternative for the Rapid tooling (RT) method used in injection molding. However, the poor capability of the heat delivery forces the gypsum mold to operate under a high-risk condition, and distortion of the mol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
5,762 Views
11 Pages

Material Characterization of PCL:PLLA Electrospun Fibers Following Six Months Degradation In Vitro

  • Alyah H. Shamsah,
  • Sarah H. Cartmell,
  • Stephen M. Richardson and
  • Lucy A. Bosworth

21 March 2020

The annulus fibrosus—one of the two tissues comprising the intervertebral disc—is susceptible to injury and disease, leading to chronic pain and rupture. A synthetic, biodegradable material could provide a suitable scaffold that alleviate...

  • Review
  • Open Access
57 Citations
9,116 Views
29 Pages

20 March 2020

The high speed of contaminants growth needs the burgeoning of new analytical techniques to keep up with the continuous demand for monitoring and legislation on food safety and environmental pollution control. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a kin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,116 Views
13 Pages

Characterization and Preparation of Furanic-Glyoxal Foams

  • Xuedong Xi,
  • Antonio Pizzi,
  • Hong Lei,
  • Guanben Du,
  • Xiaojian Zhou and
  • Yuying Lin

20 March 2020

Synthetic foams have become an essential industrial product for a great variety of applications. Furfuryl alcohol, as a biomass chemical, was reacted with glyoxal at room temperature to prepare furanic-glyoxal rigid foams, and p-toluenesulfonic acid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,594 Views
12 Pages

20 March 2020

Two-component fibrous materials based on poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB, Tm = 160 °C) and poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL, Tm = 60 °C) were successfully fabricated by dual-jet electrospinning of their separate spinning solutions. The desired...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,740 Views
13 Pages

Developing Further Versatility in Benzoxazine Synthesis via Hydrolytic Ring-Opening

  • Shaoying Cui,
  • Carlos R. Arza,
  • Pablo Froimowicz and
  • Hatsuo Ishida

20 March 2020

In this study, 2-(aminomethyl)phenol and its derivatives, the reactants for 2-substituted 1,3-benzoxazines, are synthesized by HCl hydrolysis from the typical benzoxazines. The phenol/aniline-based mono-oxazine benzoxazine, PH-a, and the bisphenol A/...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,465 Views
13 Pages

Magnetic-Electrospinning Synthesis of γ-Fe2O3 Nanoparticle–Embedded Flexible Nanofibrous Films for Electromagnetic Shielding

  • Jie Zheng,
  • Bin Sun,
  • Xiao-Xiong Wang,
  • Ze-Xing Cai,
  • Xin Ning,
  • Saad M. Alshehri,
  • Tansir Ahamad,
  • Xing-Tao Xu,
  • Yusuke Yamauchi and
  • Yun-Ze Long

20 March 2020

The exploration of a new family of flexible and high-performance electromagnetic shielding materials is of great significance to the next generation of intelligent electronic products. In this paper, we report a simple magnetic-electrospinning (MES)...

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Polymers - ISSN 2073-4360