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Hydrogels with good mechanical properties have received intense interests recently. Simplifying the method to prepare tough hydrogels and meantime incorporating additional properties such as anti-swelling, self-recovery, healing ability, facile processability, and recyclability will likely expand their applications significantly. Here we report a simple method to prepare tough hydrogels: dripping...
A series of mesogen-jacketed liquid crystalline polymers (MJLCPs) with polynorbornene as the main chain and cholesteryl mesogenic units at the ends of the side chain, PNbnChol (n = 1, 3, 5, which is the number of benzene rings in the rigid side-chain core), were prepared by ring-opening metathesis polymerization. The phase behaviors of the polymers were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry,...
In order to obtain high-temperature resistant thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs), we designed and synthesized a new kind of ABA triblock copolymer containing a mesogen-jacketed liquid crystalline polymer, poly(4′-(methoxy)-2-vinylbiphenyl-4-methyl ether) (PMVBP), as the hard blocks and polybutadiene (PB) as the soft block. PB was synthesized by ring-opening metathesis polymerization in the presence of...
Thermosetting terpolymer composed of benzoxazine (BOZ), cyanate ester (BADCy) and maleimide resin (BMI) was prepared via co-curing reactions. The curing reaction of benzoxazine with bismaleimide/cyanate ester resin and the properties of the terpolymer were studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), and the thermal, mechanical and dielectric...
Two polymer-Hemin composites, AB type block copolymer (PStCH-b-P4VP): Hemin and homopolymer of poly(4-vinylpyridine) (P4VP): Hemin, can be fabricated into sandwich memory devices. The memory device characteristics of the PStCH-b-P4VP: Hemin blends can show Flash memory behavior, while the P4VP polymer with Hemin only shows write-once-read-many-times (WORM) performance. Charge transfer and nanocomposite...
The goal of this research is to synthesize the hyperbranched polythiophene derivatives (P1 and P4) containing tetrachloroperylene bisimide as bridging moiety for investigation of thermal, electrochemical, and opto-electrical properties of these derivatives. The polymers (P2 and P3) containing soft alkyl spacer as bridging moiety and linear poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) were also synthesized for comparison...
In the work, ethylene–octene copolymer (POE) toughened isotatic polypropylene (PP) blends with different phase morphologies and crystalline structures were successfully fabricated and their influence on the toughness of PP blends was discussed. POE domains not only played the role of stress concentration to induce stress field around them, but also acted as stress deliverer to transmit stress to the...
A series of late-transition metal complexes supported with chlorinated bis(arylimino)pyridine ligands [2,6-(ArNCCl) 2 C 5 H 3 N]MtCl 2 (Ar = 2,4,6-Me 3 C 6 H 2 , Mt = Fe (1a), Co (2a), Ni (3a); Ar = 2,6- i Pr 2 C 6 H 3 , Mt = Fe (1b), Co (2b); Ar = 2,6-Et 2 C 6 H 3 , Mt = Co (1c), Ni (3c);...
A series of multicoumarin-functionalized dendrigraft polybutadienes with linear-comb or star-comb topology were synthesized from generation 0 to 3 (LGn and SGn respectively, n = 0–3) to investigate the dendritic effects on photophysical and fluorescence properties. From the results of SEC-TALLS, SEC and ubbelohde viscometer, the polymer architecture converted from one- or two-dimensional structure...
In this study, a novel approach has been developed to introduce orientation to bundle-like β spherulite in iPP samples. The addition of UHMWPE phase, which plays the role of maintaining orientation of iPP chains, into β-nucleation agent nucleated iPP samples leads to the formation of oriented β spherulite in the inner region of injection molded samples. Accordingly, both the tensile strength and impact...
Thermal analysis and infrared spectroscopic studies were performed to investigate the strength of intermolecular interactions of the polyimides derived from 5,4′-diamino-2-phenyl benzimidazole (DAPBI) and 5,4′-diamino-2-phenyl benzoxazole (DAPBO). Polyimide films were prepared based on biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride (BPDA) isomers, difference of glass transition temperatures (ΔT g ) between...
Coordinative chain transfer polymerization (CCTP) of isoprene was investigated by using the typical Ziegler–Natta catalytic system [Nd(Oi-Pr) 3 /Al(i-Bu) 2 H/Me 2 SiCl 2 ] with Al(i-Bu) 2 H as cocatalyst and chain transfer agent (CTA). The catalyst system exhibited high catalytic efficiency for the reversible CCTP of isoprene and yielded 6–8 polymer chains per...
The initiating system consisting of AlCl 3 with dialkyl ether such as di-n-butyl ether or diisopropyl ether has been successfully developed for providing a cost-effective process of synthesis of highly reactive polyisobutylenes (HRPIBs) with large proportion of exo-olefin end groups up to 93 mol% at temperatures ranging from −20 to +20 °C. The above dialkyl ethers played very important roles...
Well-defined dually responsive block-brush copolymer of poly(ethylene glycol)-b-[poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-g-poly(N,N-dimethylamino-ethylmethacrylate)], [PEG-b-P(NIPAM-g-PDMAEMA)] was successfully prepared by the combination of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and click chemistry based on azide-capped PDMAEMA and alkyne-pending PEG-b-PNIPAM copolymer. Azide-capped PDMAEMA was synthesized...
Poly(trimethylene terephthalate)/polybutadiene grafted polymetyl methacrylate (PB-g-PMMA, MB) blends were prepared by melt processing with varying weight ratios (0–5wt%) of diglycidyl ether of bisphenol-A (DGEBA) epoxy resin as a reactive compatibilizer. DMA result showed PTT was partially miscible with MB particles in the presence of the compatibilizer. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and rheological...
Melt blending of polylactide (PLA) and biodegradable polyamide elastomer (PAE) has been performed in an effort to toughen the PLA. DMA tests showed good compatibility between PAE and PLA blends, and the PAE were dispersed in PLA matrix uniformly shown in SEM photos. Mechanical properties of blends with different PAE concentrations were observed. With the PAE contents increasing, the elongation at...
The addition of up to 6 part per hundred (phr) of an organoclay to a 80/20 (w/w) PTT/EPDM-g-MA blend led to ternary compounds that came together as a means of balancing stiffness/strength versus toughness/ductility. The effect of organoclay platelets on morphologies and mechanical properties of PTT/EPDM-g-MA/organoclay ternary nanocomposites had been studied by SEM, TEM, WAXD, and mechanical testing...
The nano-scale dispersed fibrils with gradient distribution in PP/PS composite fine fibers were observed by in situ formation during its melt spinning process. The morphology development of polyblends, from granule to as-spun fiber as well as drawn fiber with various PS content from 2 to 8wt% were investigated. The morphology conversion of PS dispersed phase from ellipse to gradient nano-scale fibril...
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