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A series of triphenylamine-functionalized phthalazinone-based covalent triazine framework materials (PHCTF-8) with high specific surface areas were successfully designed and constructed from a novel, centrosymmetric, and pinwheel-like tricyano precursor (TPAHPZ-TN) by ionothermal polymerization. The tricyano building blocks can be easily prepared by a simple and low-cost aromatic nucleophilic substitution...
Assembling soft matters such as polymers into ordered structures remains as a challenge because of their intrinsic flexibility that can easily lead to entanglements and disordered bundles. This work demonstrates that macroscopic P3HT fibers (∼several cm) can be formed via DC electric field induced assembly of pre-aggregated high-aspect ratio P3HT nanowhiskers in solution. The P3HT fibers assemble...
Grafting polyolefin chains onto the surface of silica nanoparticles to form satisfactory polyolefin/silica nanocomposites still remains a challenge, even after the complicated functionalization of the polyolefin chains and surface modification of the silica. In this study, an efficient route for the preparation of polypropylene-grafted nanosilica (PP-g-SiO2) masterbatch was presented through the reactive...
Liquid crystalline physical gels (LCPGs) with stable mechanical properties and fast electro-optical response properties were prepared through the self-assembly of side chain liquid crystalline polymers (SCLCPs) with different spacer length poly [ω-4′-cyano-(1, 1′-biphenyl)] acrylate (PmACB, m is the spacer length of SCLCP, m = 0, 2, 4) as gelators in a nematic liquid crystal, 4-pentyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl...
Polyurethanes are known for their satisfactory mechanical strength, which is highly desired for various applications. Poly (ethyl formal disulfide)-based materials have excellent self-healing ability because of containing abundant exchangeable disulfide bonds, while their strength is relatively low (<0.8 MPa). Combining the advantages of the two materials, in this article, we synthesized self-healable...
Addition of a β-nucleating agent (β-NA) is the most effective method of preparing β-nucleated isotactic polypropylene (β-iPP); however, the poor dispersion and agglomeration of β-NAs limit nucleation efficiency. To solve this problem, a self-dispersing β-NA strategy was developed based on in situ preparation of β-NA (instead of pre-addition) during the processing of iPP. Zinc adipate (ZnAA), a typical...
Recently, we proposed a novel strategy for fabricating high-performance stereocomplex-type polylactide (SC-PLA) products through low-temperature (180–210 °C, lower than the melting temperature of SC crystallites) sintering from its nascent powder, without serious thermal degradation involved in the conventional melt processing at higher temperatures. During the sintering, some poly(l-lactide) (PLLA)...
Epoxy composites with excellent toughness and strength have been successfully fabricated by direct incorporation of graphite fluoride (GrF) without using any solvent or surfactant modification. Owing to the strong interfacial interactions, the glass transition temperature of GrF/epoxy composites exhibits a significant improvement as observed by dynamic mechanical analysis. Mechanical characterizations...
The influence of nanofillers on the crystal transformation from crystal form II to form I of isotactic polybutene-1(PB-1) was investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), in situ wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) and small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) techniques. Two types of silicate clay both having one-dimensional structure, halloysite nanotube (HNT) and palygorskite (PGS), were...
RAFT dispersion polymerization following the formulation of polymerization induced self-assembly (PISA) and micellization of pre-prepared amphiphilic block copolymers in block-selective solvents are generally used to prepare block copolymer nano-assemblies. Herein, we make a comparison between these two methods by employing two typical block copolymers of poly(acrylic acid)-block-polystyrene (PAA-b-PS)...
Towards the development of high-performance green composites, the surface functionalized cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) have been widely used as reinforcement along with biopolymer. In our previous work, it has been demonstrated that CNC grafted with PDLA (CNC-g-PDLA) could improve the crystal nucleation density and heat distraction ability of PLLA matrix via the PLLA/PDLA stereocomplex interaction...
Novel polyimide nanocomposites with excellent mechanical and tribological properties were achieved using amine functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT-NH2). MWCNT-NH2 was successfully obtained through Friedel-Crafts acylation and nitroreduction. PI nanocomposites with different contents of MWCNT-NH2 were prepared via in-situ polymerization. In contrast with the properties of pure PI or...
Despite many investigations, phase inversion in rubber/plastic blends and its origin are far from being understood. Here we focus on the heterogeneous phase inversion in partially miscible blend of polyolefin elastomer (POE) and polypropylene (PP) using the classical density functional approach. We have shown that the blend decomposes into the POE-rich and PP-rich phases on the surfaces of POE or...
Chiral poly(ferrocenyl-Schiff Bases) iron(II) complexes (CPSC)/Reduced graphene oxide (RGO) composites with excellent microwave absorption properties have been successfully prepared. The structures of poly(ferrocenyl-Schiff Bases) and their iron(II) complexes were characterized with IR, MS, HNMR, GPC, elemental analysis, etc. The morphology of CPSC and their composite materials were studied through...
Polymorphic transformation from the form II to form I crystal was investigated for isotactic polybutene-1 (PB) and butene-1/ethylene copolymers (PBE) with differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and dielectric response spectroscopy (DRS). DRS detected the so-called α relaxation of segments within the amorphous phase, and DSC traced a degree of form II to I transformation with time. It turned out that...
The novel poly(hydroxy-p-phenylenebenzobisoxazole) (HPBO) was synthesized by different polymerization routes, including hydroxy-orderly distributed polymer (ord-HPBO) and hydroxy-randomly distributed polymer (ran-HPBO). Surface elemental composition, thermal stability, intrinsic viscosity, UV resistance, surface morphology, mechanical and interfacial properties of HPBO fiber were investigated. ATR-FTIR...
Manipulating the sub-units of conjugated co-polymers was a convenient and promising strategy for developing novel functional materials. Here a soluble alternating copolymer (P-Boc) consisted of 9,9-dialkylfluorene and 1,4-diketo-2,5-di(t-butoxycarbonyl)-3,6-diphenyl-pyrrolo[3,4-c]-pyrrole was designed and synthesized. Heating the spin-coated P-Boc film could afford an insoluble polymer film (P-2H)...
Four new partly modified membranes of novel (co)polyacetylenes having a photodegradative backbone and crosslinkable side chains showed excellent performances as oxygen permselective membranes, that is, ultrahigh oxygen permeability (PO2) with relatively high oxygen permselectivity (α = PO2/PN2). In α vs. PO2 plots, two of them showed a performance close to Robeson's upper bound 2008 and the other...
Calcium pimelate (CaPim) is known as one of the most stable and effective β-nucleating agents for isotactic polypropylene (iPP). To establish the structure-properties relationships of CaPim, the structure and corresponding β-nucleating ability of as-synthesized CaPim and CaPim annealed at temperature (Ta) varying from 130 to 330 °C were investigated. Our results revealed that as-synthesized CaPim...
It is stressed that the structure plays a decisive role on the property of materials. Materials generally with rigid molecular chains possess outstanding mechanical performances. However, this structure-property relationship is ambiguous in some polyimide (PI) materials. In this study, three typical homo-PI fibers, derived from pyromellitic dianhydride(PMDA)/p-phenylene diamine(PDA), PMDA/4,4′-oxidianiline...
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