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Polymers, Volume 9, Issue 6

June 2017 - 55 articles

Cover Story: This paper reports the principal discoveries which have played a major role in the polyolefin field and have positioned polyolefins as the most produced plastics. The early development of polyolefins covering the production of LDPE at ICI and the discovery of Phillips or Ziegler-Natta catalysts are highlighted in a first section. In a second part the impact of the implementation of molecular catalysts on the research in polyolefins is discussed together with the last advances leading to high performance tailor made resins. View the paper
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Articles (55)

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,836 Views
10 Pages

18 June 2017

Vertical alignment of liquid crystal (LC) was achieved in an easy and effective way: in situ photopolymerization of dodecyl acrylate (DA) monomers initiated by polyimide based on 3,3′,4,4′-benzophenonetetracarboxylic dianhydride and 3,3′-dimethyl-4,4...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,010 Views
17 Pages

16 June 2017

A heterogalactan, named ACW0, was extracted from Antrodia camphorata and purified by anion exchange and gel permeation chromatography. It was composed of galactose (94.98%), traces of mannose (2.41%), and fucose (2.61%), with its molecular weight est...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,355 Views
13 Pages

16 June 2017

It is well known that elastic instabilities induce pattern transformations when a soft cellular structure is compressed beyond critical limits. The nonlinear phenomena of pattern transformations make them a prime candidate for controlling macroscopic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
10,313 Views
13 Pages

15 June 2017

Here we reported the use of electropolymerization to achieve the transformation of aqueous hydroquinone to solid-phase polyhydroquinone (PHQ) with pseudocapacitive characteristics, and the application of this redox-active product to shuttle electron...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,885 Views
14 Pages

15 June 2017

A novel cationic water-soluble conjugated polyelectrolyte (CPE) of polyfluorene that contains 15% fraction of 2,1,3-benzothiadiazole (BT) units (PFC3NBT) has been obtained. PFC3NBT demonstrates intramolecular energy transfer from the fluorene segment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
10,824 Views
14 Pages

14 June 2017

Because of the complex mechanisms mediating cancer onset, prognosis, and metastatic behavior, different therapeutic approaches targeting these mechanisms have been investigated. Recent advancements in nanocarrier-based drug and gene delivery methods...

  • Erratum
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,787 Views
2 Pages

Erratum: pH Sensitive Hydrogels in Drug Delivery: Brief History, Properties, Swelling, and Release Mechanism, Material Selection and Applications. Polymers 2017, 9, 137

  • Muhammad Rizwan,
  • Rosiyah Yahya,
  • Aziz Hassan,
  • Muhammad Yar,
  • Ahmad Danial Azzahari,
  • Vidhya Selvanathan,
  • Faridah Sonsudin and
  • Cheyma Naceur Abouloula

14 June 2017

The authors wish to make a change to their published paper [1]. [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
13,917 Views
15 Pages

14 June 2017

Thiol-ene photo-click hydrogels were prepared via step-growth polymerisation using thiol-functionalised type-I collagen and 8-arm poly(ethylene glycol) norbornene-terminated (PEG-NB), as a potential injectable regenerative device. Type-I collagen was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,965 Views
23 Pages

13 June 2017

The interphase in short fiber thermoplastic composites is defined as a three-dimensional, several hundred nanometers-wide boundary region at the interface of fibers and the polymer matrix, exhibiting altered mechanical properties. This region is of k...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
12,555 Views
17 Pages

13 June 2017

In recent years, the interest for bio-sources is rising exponentially and tannins extracts are one of the most interesting, easily-available, phenolic building blocks. The condensed tannins or proanthocyanidins are already known for their polymerizat...

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