Dilayda Kanmaz、Hatice Aylin Karahan Toprakçı、Hülya Ölmez 等 4 位作者2018-12-13Material Science Research India
Electrospinning technique has excellent advantages such as tunable functionality, thin fibers with large surface areas, ease of processing and good physical properties. Electrospinning provides wide usage area with these advantages in biomedical applications. Polylactic acid (PLA) is a biodegradable and biocompatible…
biodegradable polymer synthesis and propertiesElectrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical ApplicationsTissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Byungkyu Ahn、Nam Park、Donghyuk Kim 等 4 位作者2018-12-13Rubber Chemistry and Technology
ABSTRACT We investigated how end-functionalized solution styrene–butadiene rubber (SSBR) affects the vulcanizate structures and the physical properties of silica-filled vulcanizates using non-functionalized and end-functionalized SSBRs with aminopropylalkoxysilane. Two silane agents were used. Triethoxy(octyl)silane w…
Polymer Nanocomposites and PropertiesSynthesis and properties of polymersSilicone and Siloxane Chemistry
Lining Ding、Ying Liu、Jianxun Liu 等 4 位作者2018-12-13Polymer Composites
This article studies the correlation between the tensile strength and the chemical composition of basalt fiber roving and analyzes rovings with different chemical compositions to derive equations that predict the roving strength. The tensile properties of different types of basalt fiber roving that were impregnated wi…
Mechanical Behavior of CompositesNatural Fiber Reinforced CompositesInnovative concrete reinforcement materials
Huan Zhang、Haibo Zhao、Kaiyue Zhuo 等 8 位作者2018-12-13Polymer Chemistry
Conjugated Möbius metalla-aromatic “carbolong” is incorporated into polymers to achieve spatially resolved, repeated and fast healing through a photothermal effect.
Polymer composites and self-healingPhotochromic and Fluorescence ChemistryPolydiacetylene-based materials and applications
Xue Feng Lu、Gaige Zheng、Peng Zhou2018-12-13Results in Physics
A refractive index (RI) sensor which contains a dielectric cavity composed of two parallel planar waveguide gratings (WGGs) is proposed. Reflection and transmittance through stacked gratings are studied after converting the diffraction problem into the two coupled resonances. The method of analysis is applied to estim…
Advanced Fiber Optic SensorsPhotonic and Optical DevicesOptical Coatings and Gratings
Yue Yu、Ruiyang Zhao、Changjiang Zhou 等 10 位作者2018-12-13Chemical Communications
A photochemical reaction in which the imidazole ring is opened under UV irradiation to generate highly luminescent benzoylimino group by O2 has been discovered. This photochemical reaction displays great potential for applications that use a fluorescent probe as a oxygen sensor; it has a lowest detectable volume ratio…
Molecular Sensors and Ion DetectionOrganic Light-Emitting Diodes ResearchLuminescence and Fluorescent Materials
Somsubhra Saha、Manash Ghosh、Joydeep Chowdhury2018-12-13Journal of Raman Spectroscopy
Abstract A facile procedure towards the fabrication of highly reproducible, large area surface‐enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) active substrates through integration of Langmuir–Blodgett and self‐assembly technique has been reported. The plasmonic architectures of the substrates can be tuned at will to control the hot…
Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and ApplicationsQuantum Dots Synthesis And PropertiesCopper-based nanomaterials and applications
Kaixi Bi、Yiqin Chen、Qiang Wan 等 12 位作者2018-12-13Nanoscale
Reliable fabrication of gold nanoparticles with desirable size, geometry and spatial arrangement is essential for plasmonic applications. A common fabrication flow usually involves electron-beam lithography and a vacuum-evaporation-based lift-off process or etching. In this work, we evaluate an alternative approach to…
Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and ApplicationsOptical Coatings and GratingsCopper-based nanomaterials and applications
Jiajing Wu、Jing Peng、Yuan Zhou 等 10 位作者2018-12-13Journal of the American Chemical Society
Homojunctions comprised of transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMD) polymorphs are attractive building blocks for next-generation two-dimensional (2D) electronic circuitry. However, the synthesis of such homojunctions, which usually involves elaborate manipulation at the nanoscale, still remains a great challenge. Herei…
Perovskite Materials and Applications2D Materials and ApplicationsChalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
Lode Daelemans、Wim Van Paepegem、Dagmar D’hooge 等 4 位作者2018-12-13Advanced Functional Materials
Abstract One of the challenges for multiphase materials is the improvement of the interconnectivity of their separate phases. A promising route toward excellent adhesion is molecular interdiffusion, in which molecules are transferred to enable physical interaction. In the present work, a novel straightforward and dire…
Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting MaterialsElectrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical ApplicationsFiber-reinforced polymer composites
Juan Dominguez Olivo、Bruce Brown、David Young 等 4 位作者2018-12-13CORROSION
Four different model compounds were synthesized and utilized in this research to relate inhibitor alkyl tail length to changes in the activation energy of the electrochemical process associated with CO2 corrosion of an API 5L X65 steel at pH 4.0. The molecular structure of the model compounds was composed of the same…
Corrosion Behavior and InhibitionHydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metalsConcrete Corrosion and Durability
SARAH RICHARDSON、Thomas M. Rawlings、Joanne Muter 等 7 位作者2018-12-13Macromolecular Bioscience
A novel strategy for the surface functionalization of emulsion-templated highly porous (polyHIPE) materials as well as its application to in vitro 3D cell culture is presented. A heterobifunctional linker that consists of an amine-reactive N-hydroxysuccinimide ester and a photoactivatable nitrophenyl azide, N-sulfosuc…
Nanoparticle-Based Drug DeliveryHydrogels: synthesis, properties, applicationsPolymer Surface Interaction Studies
Aimin Huang、Xuanhai Li、Xingtang Liang 等 7 位作者2018-12-13Polymers
Emamectin benzoate (EB), a widely used pesticide, is prone to decomposition by ultraviolet light and suffers from the corresponding loss of efficacy. The timed release of EB based on microspheres is one of the effective methods to solve this issue. As a non-toxic cellulose ester, cellulose acetate butyrate (CAB) is re…
Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applicationsAdvanced Cellulose Research StudiesPolymer-Based Agricultural Enhancements
Edoardo Alinovi、Alessandro Bottaro2018-12-13Physical Review Fluids
The flow within microscopic indentations filled with a lubricant fluid is studied by varying viscosity ratio, surface tension, and lubricant-to-working-fluid volume fraction. This yields protrusion heights that readily quantify the drag reduction of a lubricant-impregnated microstructured surface.
Surface Modification and SuperhydrophobicityFluid Dynamics and Heat TransferFluid Dynamics and Thin Films
Hailei Zhang、Cong Cheng、Hongzan Song 等 7 位作者2018-12-13Chemical Communications
Polyphosphonium was facilely grafted onto HNTs in an aqueous phase by a one-step method initiated by Ce(iv) at a mild temperature. The modified HNTs were immersed in a sodium alginate solution to achieve a uniform hydrogel that shows desirable antibacterial activity.
Clay minerals and soil interactionsLayered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and ApplicationsTherapeutic Uses of Natural Elements
Yaqin Cui、Jinxing Jiang、Xiaoyang Mao 等 4 位作者2018-12-13Inorganic Chemistry
A series of mononuclear salen–sodium anions, as the first examples, were synthesized with tetra-alkyl ammonium as a counterpart cation. These complexes are efficient catalysts for the isoselective ring-opening polymerization of rac -lactide; the molecular weights of polymers are under control and molecular weight dist…
biodegradable polymer synthesis and propertiesCarbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
Renée Haver、Harry L. Anderson2018-12-13Helvetica Chimica Acta
Abstract Discrete π‐conjugated zinc porphyrin nanotubes are investigated as molecular analogues of carbon nanotubes. These porphyrin nanotubes have a diameter of 2.4 nm (Zn–Zn distance) and lengths of up to 3.6 nm, measured to the van der Waals surfaces of the outer β‐pyrrole hydrogen atoms, or 4.5 nm measured to the…
Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesPorphyrin and Phthalocyanine ChemistrySynthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
Minju Kim、Han‐Gyu Kim、Soohyung Park 等 9 位作者2018-12-13Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Black phosphorus (BP) has received much attention owing to its fascinating properties, such as a high carrier mobility and tunable band gap. However, these advantages have been overshadowed by the fast degradation of BP under ambient conditions. To overcome this obstacle, the exact degradation mechanisms need to be un…
Perovskite Materials and Applications2D Materials and ApplicationsMXene and MAX Phase Materials
Elizaveta Motovilova、Shao Ying Huang2018-12-13IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
In this paper, we propose a compact, lightweight, and easy-to-fabricate Hilbert curve-based metasurface resonator that can effectively increase the sensitivity (radio frequency (RF) field intensity) and penetration depth of an RF coil for 7-T magnetic resonance imaging scanner. A circuit model is proposed to accuratel…
Antenna Design and AnalysisMetamaterials and Metasurfaces ApplicationsAdvanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
Jie Wang、Teahoon Park、Jin Woo Yi 等 9 位作者2018-12-13Nanoscale Horizons
for use as electrodes in supercapacitor devices. This method is a simple and scalable route to obtain large amounts of holey two-dimensional materials with high electrochemical performances.
Advancements in Battery MaterialsGraphene research and applicationsSupercapacitor Materials and Fabrication