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Reprocessable Supramolecular Thermoplastic BAB-Type Triblock Copolymer Elastomers with Enhanced Tensile Strength and Toughness via Metal–Ligand Coordination

Wang, Wentao; Zhang, Juan; Jiang, Feng; Wang, Xuehui; Wang, Zhigang

A new strategy was proposed to enhance tensile strength, toughness, and extensibility of BAB-type reprocessable supramolecular triblock copolymer elastomers (STBCPEs) by simply incorporating 1-vinylimidazole (VI) as a minor comonomer to introduce metal–ligand coordinate bonds of minor contents into the soft matrix. Poly(n-butyl acrylate-co-1-vinylimidazole)-b-poly(isobornyl…
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25 November 2019
(Natural) polymersApplicationCharacteristic dimensionCharacterizationCustomer publicationsMaterialPhase analysisPolymer researchSAXSTechniqueTemperatureWAXS

De-symmetrizing periodically grafted amphiphilic copolymers: design, synthesis and generation of Janus folded chains

Sarkar, Ramkrishna; Gowd, E. Bhoje; Ramakrishnan, S.

Periodically grafted amphiphilic copolymers (PGACs) were earlier shown to fold in a zigzag fashion to enable segregation of the two immiscible segments, namely the backbone and the pendant segments; crystallization of one or both segments led to the formation of a lamellar structure with the two segments located in alternate…
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25 November 2019
(Natural) polymersApplicationCharacterizationCustomer publicationsFood scienceMaterialPhase analysisPolymer researchPorous materialSAXSTechnique

Enhanced functional properties of biopolymer film incorporated with curcurmin-loaded mesoporous silica nanoparticles for food packaging

Wu, Chunhua; Zhu, Yang; Wu, Tiantian; Wang, Lin; Yuan, Yi; Chen, Jicheng; Hu, Yaqin; Pang, Jie

Curcumin loaded mesoporous silica nanoparticle (SBA-15) was incorporated into chitosan (CS) film to improve the functional properties of pure CS film. Curcumin was loaded into SBA-15 (SBA-15-Cur) through a rotavapor method. The structural properties of SBA-15-Cur were characterised in detail by small-angle X-ray scattering, fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, transmission electron…
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25 November 2019
ApplicationCharacterizationCustomer publicationsMaterialSAXSSizeStructural biologySurfactantsTechnique

Dynamics of proteins confined in non-ionic bicontinuous microemulsions: a FCS study

Wrede, Oliver; Großkopf, Sören; Seidel, Thorsten; Hellweg, Thomas

In our present work we present an approach which allows one to confine proteins in structurally nearly identical bicontinuous microemulsions with systematically decreasing water domain size. It is shown that sub-diffusive behaviour occurs already at water domain sizes below 13 nm. However, above 13 nm normal diffusion is seen. Moreover,…
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25 November 2019
(Natural) polymersApplicationCharacteristic dimensionCharacterizationCustomer publicationsMaterialPolymer researchSAXSTechnique

Rich lamellar crystal baklava-structured PZT/PVDF piezoelectric sensor toward individual table tennis training

Tian, Guo; Deng, Weili; Gao, Yuyu; Xiong, Da; Yan, Cheng; He, Xuebing; Yang, Tao; Jin, Long; Chu, Xiang; Zhang, Haitao; Yan, Wei; Yang, Weiqing

Real-time monitoring of interaction between ball and racket can provide the extremely important information for high quality guidance of individual table tennis training. However, the existing visual monitoring system is hard to reflect the specific interaction force and accurate hit position. Here, we design a self-powered rich lamellar crystal baklava-structured…
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25 November 2019
(Natural) polymersApplicationCharacteristic dimensionCharacterizationCustomer publicationsMaterialPorous materialRenewable energySAXSSizeTechnique

Influence of Trimethylsilyl Side Groups on the Molecular Mobility and Charge Transport in Highly Permeable Glassy Polynorbornenes

Yin, Huajie; Chapala, Pavel; Bermeshev, Maxim; Pauw, Brian R.; Schönhals, Andreas; Böhning, Martin

Superglassy polymers with a large fractional free volume have emerged as novel materials with a broad range of applications, especially in the field of membrane separations. Highly permeable addition-type substituted polynorbornenes with high thermal resistance and chemical stability are among the most promising materials. The major obstacle for extending the…
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25 November 2019
(Natural) polymersApplicationCharacteristic dimensionCharacterizationCustomer publicationsMaterialOrientation analysisPolymer researchSAXSTechnique

Insight into shear-induced modification for improving processability of polymers: Effect of shear rate on the evolution of entanglement state

Fu, Jiaxin; Wang, Yingxiong; Shen, Kaizhi; Fu, Qiang; Zhang, Jie

Many experimental results have revealed that the re-entanglement kinetics of disentangled polymers is much slower than that predicted by tube theory. This retarded recovery of fully entangled state is of practical significance that shear-induced modification may offer a way to improve processability for a polymer by reducing viscosity. This work…
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25 November 2019
(Natural) polymersApplicationCharacterizationCrystalline fractionCustomer publicationsMaterialPhase analysisPolymer researchSAXSTechnique

Phase transitions of the rapid-compression-induced mesomorphic isotactic polypropylene under high-pressure annealing

Fu, Xiaobo; Jia, Wenxia; Li, Xiaoting; Wang, Yaming; Wang, Zhen; Liu, Chuntai; Shen, Changyu; Shao, Chunguang

The mesomorphic isotactic polypropylene was prepared by rapid compression instead of the common method of temperature quenching, and their phase transition under high pressure was investigated in depth by combining wide-angle X-ray diffraction, small-angle X-ray scattering, and differential scanning calorimetry techniques. It was found that annealing under pressure can promote…
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25 November 2019
(Natural) polymersApplicationCharacterizationCustomer publicationsMaterialNanoparticles & colloidsParticlesPhase analysisSAXSSelf-assembled materialTechnique

Scalable preparation of alternating block copolymer particles with inverse bicontinuous mesophases

Lv, Fei; An, Zesheng; Wu, Peiyi

Block copolymer particles with controlled morphologies play a vital role in materials science and nanotechnology. Here the authors show a scalable preparation of amphiphilic alternating block polymer particles with inverse bicontinuous mesophases via polymerization-induced…
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25 November 2019
ApplicationCharacterizationCustomer publicationsMaterialNanoparticles & colloidsParticlesSAXSSizeTechnique

Using the singular value decomposition to extract 2D correlation functions from scattering patterns

Bender, Philipp; Zákutná, Dominika; Disch, Sabrina; Marcano, Lourdes; Venero, Diego Alba; Honecker, Dirk

We apply the truncated singular value decomposition (SVD) to extract the underlying 2D correlation functions from small-angle scattering patterns. We test the approach by transforming the simulated data of ellipsoidal particles and show that also in case of anisotropic patterns (i.e. aligned ellipsoids) the derived correlation functions correspond to the…
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25 November 2019