Many previous contributions to methods of forecasting the performance of polymer flooding using artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been made by numerous researchers previously. In most of those forecasting cases, only a single polymer slug was em...
Hybrid polymer-network gels built by both physical and covalent polymer crosslinking combine the advantages of both these crosslinking types: they exhibit high mechanical strength along with excellent fracture toughness and extensibility. If these ma...
Wood, a renewable and sustainable resource with a hierarchical porous structure, exhibits significant potential for functional composites through integration with polymers. Wood/polymer composites are typically fabricated either via polymer impregnat...
A polymer-stabilized liquid crystal (PSLC) device has been a promising candidate in several scenarios like smart vehicle windows and glass curtain walls in recent years due to its remarkable features like a fast switch from the initial transparent st...
In view of the problems of polymer cross-linked elastic particle plugging agents commonly used in oilfields, including easy shear, poor temperature resistance, and weak plugging strength for large pores, the introduction of particles with certain rig...
We conducted a detailed investigation of the influence of the material properties of dynamic polymer network coatings on their self-healing and damage-reporting performance. A series of reversible polyacrylate urethane networks containing the damage-...
Silk fibroin hydrogel is an ideal model as biomaterial matrix due to its excellent biocompatibility and used in the field of medical polymer materials. Nevertheless, native fibroin hydrogels show poor transparency and resilience. To settle these draw...
Significant developments have been achieved with the invention of hydrogels. They are effective in many fields such as wastewater treatment, food, agriculture, pharmaceutical applications, and drug delivery. Although hydrogels have been used successf...
Solid-state polymer electrolytes have become promising candidates for high-energy-density lithium metal batteries (LMBs). However, they suffer from low ionic conductivities at room temperature. In this work, two types of composite polymer electrolyte...
A novel approach for fabricating a microlens array with a tunable surface topographical structure and focal length is proposed in the present study. The microlens array was manufactured through the photoinduced molecular reorientation of nematic liqu...
Polymer-based composites with a high dielectric property have shown great potential in electrical energy storage applications. It is important to predict the dielectric constant in designing polymer composites, but it is costly and time consuming. In...
Current mechanical recycling procedures often fall short of achieving 100% purity in recycled thermoplastics, which typically consist of mixed polymer types. These other polymers, though typically present in small amounts, can significantly affect th...
Material characterization by the determination of relationships between structure and properties at different scales is essential for contemporary material engineering. This review article provides a summary of such studies on dimethacrylate polymer...
Highly functional macromolecules with a well-defined architecture are the key to designing efficient and smart materials, and these polymeric systems can be tailored for specific applications in a diverse range of fields. Herein, the formation of a n...
In the field of contemporary epidermal bioelectronics, there is a demand for energy supplies that are safe, lightweight, flexible and robust. In this work, double-network polymer hydrogels were synthesized by polymerization of 3,4-ethylenedioxythioph...
The key to developing high-performance polymer electrolytes (PEs) is to achieve their high strength and high ionic conductivity, but this is still challenging. Herein, we designed a new double-network PE based on the nonhydrolytic sol–gel react...
In this paper, a network of 37 fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors is proposed for real-time, in situ, and operando multipoint monitoring of the surface temperature distribution on a pack of three prismatic lithium polymer batteries (LiPBs). Using the...
Polymer flooding is now considered a technically- and commercially-proven method for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The viscosity of the injected polymer solution is the key property for successful polymer flooding. Given that the viscosity of a polyme...
A submillisecond-response and light scattering-free polymer-network liquid crystal (PNLC) for infrared spatial light modulators is demonstrated. Our new liquid crystal host exhibits a higher birefringence, comparable dielectric anisotropy, and slight...
The presented work deals with the photocuring of telechelic macromonomers derived from plant-based fatty acids to obtain a soft polymer network. Compositions were made by mixing macromonomers with three different concentrations (0.5, 1, and 2%) of tw...
The interphase region around nanoparticles changes the percolation threshold of long and thin nanoparticles, such as carbon nanotubes (CNT) in polymer nanocomposites. In this paper, the effects of the interphase region on the percolation threshold of...
The electrical performance of polymer nanocomposites strongly depends on the morphology of nanofillers and the structure of the resulting conductive networks. To elucidate the mechanisms governing conductive network formation in multi-morphology nano...
The formation of gels through the bundling of semi-flexible polymer chains into fiber networks is ubiquitous in diverse manufactured and natural materials, and, accordingly, we perform exploratory molecular dynamics simulations of a coarse-grained mo...
Extensive experimental and theoretical research over the past several decades has pursued strategies to develop hydrogels with high mechanical strength. Our study investigated the effect of combining two approaches, addition of nanoparticles and cros...
The antifogging coating based on super-hydrophilic polymer is regarded as the most promising strategy to avoid fogging but suffers from short-term effectiveness due to antifogging failure induced by water invasion. In this study, a black phosphorus n...
The control of the performance of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) random network-based transistors is of critical importance for their applications in electronic devices, such as complementary metal oxide semiconducting (CMOS)-based logics. In...
This paper introduces a tunable metamaterial absorber (MA) based on polymer network liquid crystal (PNLC) in the terahertz (THz) frequency band. Under the optimal polymerization condition, through electrical control of the orientation of the PNLC emb...
Ice accretion endangers the safety and reliability of equipment operation in frigid regions. Silicone polymer icephobic coatings present themselves as an effective strategy. However, they face durability challenges, which is a crucial foundation for...
Controlled delivery of proteins has immense potential for the treatment of various human diseases, but effective strategies for their delivery are required before this potential can be fully realized. Recent research has identified hydrogels as a pro...
Polymer-assisted hot water flooding (PAHWF) is an important enhanced oil recovery technique involving strongly coupled thermal, chemical, and multiphase flow processes. Accurate prediction of water saturation, polymer concentration, and temperature e...
The present study aimed to evaluate the wear rate of polymer-infiltrated network composites and ceramics against enamel in a bruxism-simulated scenario. Ninety-six (n = 96) molars were divided into six groups (n = 16) according to their occlusal mate...
The use of thermo-reversible Lewis Pair (LP) interactions in the formation of transient polymer networks is still greatly underexplored. In this work, we describe the synthesis and characterization of polydimethylsiloxane/polystyrene (PDMS/PS) blends...
To ensure the quality and reliability of polymer lithium-ion battery (PLB), automatic blister defect detection instead of manual detection is developed in the production of PLB cell sheets. A convolutional neural network (CNN) based detection method...
Polymer-based fibrous composites are gaining popularity in marine and sports industries because of their prominent features like easy to process, better strength to weight ratio, durability and cost-effectiveness. Still, erosive behavior of composite...
Microgels with precisely tuned properties are of great importance as drug delivery systems. Here, we report the synthesis of microgel particles (MGs) with an interpenetrating polymer network structure composed of poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) and polyacry...
A set of thermally rearranged mixed matrix membranes (TR-MMMs) was manufactured and tested for gas separation. These membranes were obtained through the thermal treatment of a precursor MMM with a microporous polymer network and an o-hydroxypolyamide...
Polymer-infiltrated ceramic network (PICN) materials have gained considerable attention as tooth-restorative materials due to their mechanical compatibility with human teeth, especially with computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD...
This study introduces an original concept in the development of hydrogel materials for controlled release of charged organic compounds based on semi-interpenetrating polymer networks composed by an inert gel-forming polymer component and interpenetra...
Tough, doubly cross-linked, single polymer network hydrogels with both chemical and physical cross-links display a high loss factor of the shear modulus over a broad frequency range. Physically, the high loss factor is resulting from the intensive ad...
In this study, we developed a novel one-pot synthesis method to fabricate well-defined single-chain polymeric nanoparticles (SCNPs) integrated with interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) systems. The synthesis process involved an initial intramolecul...
Luminescent sensing in aqueous media using organic small-molecule emitters is often constrained by water-induced fluorescence quenching and indicator leakage. In this study, a polymer-confined thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) material,...
The potential antimicrobial and antibiofouling properties of previously synthesized PEG/NiPAAm interpenetrated polymer networks (IPNs) were investigated against three of the most common bacteria (E. coli, S. aureus, and S. epidermidis). The main goal...
Due to the anisotropic structure and mechanical properties of composite laminates, internal damage cracks can easily occur. In this study, orthotropic anisotropic glass-fiber-reinforced polymer composites were used as the repair object. Firstly, the...
Understanding the adsorption features of polymer microgels with different chemical compositions and structures is crucial in studying the mechanisms of respective emulsion stabilization. Specifically, the use of stimuli-responsive particles can intro...
Surgical site infections (SSIs) are among the most frequent healthcare-associated infections, resulting in high morbidity, mortality, and cost. While correct hygiene measures and prophylactic antibiotics are effective in preventing SSIs, even in mode...
Alginate hydrogels are promising tissue engineering biomaterials due to their biocompatibility and structural similarity to the extracellular matrix, but their poor mechanical strength, rapid degradation, and lack of bioactivity limit applications. T...
A gel polymer electrolyte system based on phthaloylchitosan was prepared. The effects of process variables, such as lithium iodide, caesium iodide, and 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium iodide were investigated using a distance-based ternary mixture experi...
This study addresses the inverse design of carbon fibre-reinforced polymer laminated plates with prescribed natural frequencies. The problem is difficult because stacking sequences are discrete, the design space is large, and multiple layups may prod...
Milling parts made from glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) composite materials are recommended to achieve the geometric shapes and dimensional tolerances required for large parts manufactured using the spray lay-up technique. The quality of the su...
The methods to enhance contrast ratios (CRs) in scattering-type transflective liquid crystal displays (ST-TRLCDs) based on polymer-network liquid crystal (PNLC) cells are investigated. Two configurations of ST-TRLCDs are studied and are compared with...
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