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We present a new route of tethering graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) with Fe3O4 nanoparticles to enable their alignment in an epoxy using a weak magnetic field. The GNPs are first stabilized in water using polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) and Fe3O4 nanoparticles are then attached via co-precipitation. The resultant Fe3O4/PVP-GNPs nanohybrids are superparamagnetic and can be aligned in an epoxy resin, before...
Series of polyethers with different configurations were synthesized from chiral BINOL and optical epichlorohydrin. The optical behavior of the obtained polyethers is evaluated with specific optical rotation, UV–vis spectroscopy, circular dichroism (CD) and fluorescence spectroscopy. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) reveals the polyethers a good thermal stability. The fluorescence responses of the...
Novel magnetite-carbon nanofiber hybrids (denoted by “Fe3O4@CNFs”) have been developed by coating carbon nanofibers (CNFs) with magnetite nanoparticles in order to align CNFs in epoxy using a relatively weak magnetic field. Experimental results have shown that a weak magnetic field (∼50 mT) can align these newly-developed nanofiber hybrids to form a chain-like structure in the epoxy resin. Upon curing,...
A novel vinyl monomer, (S)-3-vinyl-2,2′-bis(methoxymethoxy)-1,1′-binaphthyl 2, was synthesized and underwent helix-sense-selective anionic polymerization to obtain helical polymers with an excess screw sense. The polymer ([α]36525 = −1610.0°) exhibited optical rotation as large as fourfold that of the monomer ([α]36525 = −356.0°). Poly-2 was confirmed to keep a prevailing helicity of backbone in solution...
Poly(ether ether ketone)/poly(ether diphenyl ether ketone) blend containing 30 wt% PEDEK was used to investigate the melting behaviour of immiscible PEEK/PEDEK blends. The results measured from differential scanning calorimetry (d.s.c.) and wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) showed that immiscible PEEK/PEDEK blends isothermally crystallized at a temperature between Tg and Tm2 (PEEK's normal melting...
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