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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)...
Nanoparticles with well-ordered structures have attracted great attention recently due to its potential application, including data storage media, microelectronics and sensors. Herein, we report a strategy of the periodic arrays of iron oxide nanoparticle with supramolecular thin films. The thin films of PS-b-P2VP/FAA supramolecules were solvent-vapor annealed with mixed solvent-vapor condition of...
With the help of Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy, it has been possible to study the molecular dynamics of disentangled Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene in a wide temperature and frequency range. Catalytic ashes of aluminum oxide act as dielectric probes, allowing the identification of five different processes: an αc-process due to movements in the crystalline phase, two γ-processes attributed...
The use of functional nanofillers to improve the properties of rigid polyurethane (PU) foams has caused the need for a better understanding of how these nanofillers modify the reaction kinetic of the PU system. In this study, different nanoclays and nanosilicas are used as functional nanofillers. Analysis of the kinetic data obtained by in-situ FTIR spectroscopy monitoring allows to correlate the...
Straining Flow Spinning is a versatile and robust spinning technique for the production of regenerated silkworm silk fibers using mild chemistries. However, reaching high values of tensile strength and strain at breaking requires a step of wet-stretching in water, which limits scalability and the practical usage of the technique. Here, we show that adding a post-spinning drawing step to the procedure...
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...
Traditional hydrophobic association (HA) hydrogels can obtain excellent mechanical properties in the presence of anionic surfactants. However, such surfactants are sensitive to salt solutions, resulting in large fluctuation of mechanical properties for hydrogels. Here, a combined surfactant consisting of anionic surfactants (sodium dodecyl sulfate, SDS) and amphoteric surfactants (dodecyl dimethyl...
Crosslinked poly(urea-siloxane) (PUS) copolymer microspheres with diameters ranging from 0.8 to 1.8 μm with diameter polydispersity indices between 1.15 and 1.60 were synthesized in one-step precipitation polymerization in water-acetone solvent mixtures at room temperature. The spheres were obtained using aminopropyl-terminated siloxanes, isophorone diisocyanate and a tetrafunctional isocyanate crosslinker,...
1H spin-diffusion solid-state NMR, in combination with other techniques, was utilized to investigate the effect of molecular architecture, solubility parameter of hard and soft segments, and their length on the domain size, interphase thickness and degree of phase separation in polyurethane-ureas based on oligomeric 4,4′-diisicyanate diphenylmethane, methylene-bis-(2-chloroaniline) and polyols based...
The structure of the interphase in polypropylene (PP)/multiwall carbon nanotube (MWNT) nanocomposite was characterized by thermal analysis and wide angle X-ray diffraction. The interphase was composed of non-covalently coated PP on acid functionalized MWNT (f-MWNT), where the volume of interphase increases with increased f-MWNT concentration from 1 wt% to 30 wt%. Larger lamella thickness, crystallinity,...
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)...
A series of thermo-responsive hydrogels have been synthesized by radiation-induced crosslinking polymerization in bulk based on; oligoether methacrylates (OEGMAs) of side chain lengths of 2–19 EG; monomer units. Side chain lengths have been shown to have a pronounced effect on synthesis parameters (monomers of longer side chains are more easily crosslinked, and the inert atmosphere promotes crosslinking...
In this work, electrospun mats made from miscible poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL)/poly(ester amide) (PEA) blends were prepared, for the first time. The well-known immiscibility issues between these two type of polymers were overcome through the synthesis of a novel tailor-made compatibilizer blocky PEA, comprising well defined PCL and PEA8L6 blocks (PCL-PEA8L6). The PCL-PEA8L6 was synthesized for the first...
This study presents the mechanical characterization of UV-curing acrylate systems. UV-curable polymers are commonly used in the stereolithography (SLA) technique to build multi-layered objects. Typically, the mechanical properties of the 3D-printed product are affected by the intrinsic material heterogeneity along the sample thickness. To understand what determines this heterogeneity, single layers...
Nano-scale roughening of a metal surface emerges as an efficient scheme for better adhesion of the metal and resin. In the present work, we address the filling of a mixture of polyphenol and polyglycidylether of o-cresol formaldehyde novolac and a set of their oligomers into nano-sized pores on aluminum surface by conducting all-atom molecular dynamics simulation. A variety of resin and pore sizes...
Unsaturated copolyesters poly(butylene succinate-co-cis-butene succinate) (P(BS-co-cBS)) were the first time prepared by polycondensation in combination with stannous octoate as catalyst and 4-methoxyphenol as radical inhibitor, achieving linear random copolyesters with a number-average molecular weight up to 38.2 kg/mol. The cis-2-butene-1, 4-diol used in this work showed a peculiarity of no isomerization...
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...
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