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Polymers, Volume 5, Issue 2

June 2013 - 17 articles

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Articles (17)

  • Review
  • Open Access
63 Citations
17,127 Views
96 Pages

21 May 2013

This review summarizes the state of the art in the synthesis of well-defined glycopolymers by Reversible-Deactivation Radical Polymerization (RDRP) from its inception in 1998 until August 2012. Glycopolymers architectures have been successfully synth...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,474 Views
49 Pages

21 May 2013

4,4′-Dithiodipyridine (dtdp), also termed 4,4′-dipyridyldisulfide, is a bridging ligand of the 4,4′-bipyridine type. The introduction of the disulfide moiety inevitably leads to a relatively rigid angular structure, which exhibits axial chirality. Mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
8,045 Views
13 Pages

One-Dimensional Coordination Polymers of Lanthanide Cations to Cucurbit[7]uril Built Using a Range of Tetrachloride Transition-Metal Dianion Structure Inducers

  • Li-Li Liang,
  • Yi Zhao,
  • Kai Chen,
  • Xin Xiao,
  • Jack K. Clegg,
  • Yun-Qian Zhang,
  • Zhu Tao,
  • Sai-Feng Xue,
  • Qian-Jiang Zhu and
  • Gang Wei

16 May 2013

A number of linear coordination polymers have been assembled from lanthanide cations (Ln3+) and cucurbit[7]uril (Q[7]) in the presence of [CuCl4]2−or [CoCl4]2− anions acting as inorganic structure inducers in HCl solution. X-ray diffraction analysis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,346 Views
14 Pages

Cholesterol-Induced Buckling in Physisorbed Polymer-Tethered Lipid Monolayers

  • Noor F. Hussain,
  • Amanda P. Siegel,
  • Merrell A. Johnson and
  • Christoph A. Naumann

26 April 2013

The influence of cholesterol concentration on the formation of buckling structures is studied in a physisorbed polymer-tethered lipid monolayer system using epifluorescence microscopy (EPI) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). The monolayer system, bui...

  • Review
  • Open Access
382 Citations
67,263 Views
43 Pages

25 April 2013

This short, introductory review covers the still rapidly growing and industrially important field of ring opening polymerization (ROP). The review is organized according to mechanism (radical ROP (RROP), cationic ROP (CROP), anionic ROP (AROP) and ri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
13,434 Views
17 Pages

Esterification of Condensed Tannins and Their Impact on the Properties of Poly(Lactic Acid)

  • Warren J. Grigsby,
  • James H. Bridson,
  • Cole Lomas and
  • Jaime-Anne Elliot

19 April 2013

Reported is a study evaluating the potential of esterified tannins as plastic additives in poly(lactic acid) (PLA). Tannin esterification using anhydrides was investigated as a route to synthesize tannin esters possessing varying ester chain length...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,266 Views
16 Pages

27 March 2013

The Landau–de Gennes theory provides a successful macroscopic description of nematics. Cornerstone of this theory is a phenomenological expression for the effective free energy as a function of the orientational order parameter. Here, we show how suc...

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