Hooman Abbasi、Marcelo Antunes、José Ignácio Velasco2015-01-01eXPRESS Polymer Letters
The present work considers the preparation of medium-density polyetherimide foams reinforced with variable amounts of graphene nanoplatelets (1-10 wt%) by means of water vapor-induced phase separation (WVIPS) and their characterization . A homogeneous closed-cell structure with cell sizes around 10 m was obtained, wit…
Advancements in Battery MaterialsGraphene research and applicationsSupercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
L. D. Kimble、Debes Bhattacharyya、S. Fakirov2015-01-01eXPRESS Polymer Letters
Biodegradable coronary stents have been under development for several years and a trend in biodegradable stent material development has emerged: reinforcement to enhance mechanical properties and creep resistance to improve vessel support. The aim of this work is to investigate the mechanical and viscoelastic characte…
Orthopaedic implants and arthroplastybiodegradable polymer synthesis and propertiesPolymer Science and Applications
Wei Teng Neo、Q. Ye、X. Wang 等 5 位作者2015-01-01eXPRESS Polymer Letters
Two series of donor-acceptor type conjugated polymers bearing benzotriazole or 5,6-dialkoxy-benzothiadiazole as acceptors unit are synthesized via Stille coupling. The optical, electrochemical, spectroelectrochemical characterizations and theoretical calculations are carried out. The polymers display excellent solubil…
Organic Electronics and PhotovoltaicsConducting polymers and applicationsTransition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials
Shuming Chen、Yang Jiang、Jing Chen 等 4 位作者2015-01-01Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
Flexible polyurethane (PU) foams comprising various additive components were synthesized to improve their acoustic performances. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of various additive components of the PU foams on the resultant sound absorption, which was characterized by the impedance tube techn…
Polymer composites and self-healingAcoustic Wave Phenomena ResearchVehicle Noise and Vibration Control
Z. Rasheva、L. Sorochynska、S. Grishchuk 等 4 位作者2015-01-01eXPRESS Polymer Letters
Isothermal and non-isothermal curing kinetics of both N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) and N-methylimidazole (MI) based poly(amide-imide) (PAI) resins were investigated by DSC analysis using tightly closed high-pressure crucibles. Several exothermal peaks on the non-isothermal DSC-traces were observed and attributed to th…
Epoxy Resin Curing ProcessesInjection Molding Process and PropertiesSynthesis and properties of polymers
I. Halász、Gábor Romhány、Ákos Kmetty 等 5 位作者2015-01-01eXPRESS Polymer Letters
This paper is aimed at studying the failure behavior of polyolefin-based self-reinforced polymer composites (SRPCs) via acoustic emission (AE). Three matrix materials (ethylene octene copolymer (EOC), polypropylene-based thermoplastic elastomer (ePP), random polypropylene copolymer (rPP), and three kinds of reinforcin…
Mechanical Behavior of CompositesNatural Fiber Reinforced CompositesSmart Materials for Construction
Alessandro Pegoretti2015-01-01eXPRESS Polymer Letters
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Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesSmart Materials for ConstructionNanotechnology research and applications
N. Y. Ning、Zhe Zheng、L. Q. Zhang 等 4 位作者2015-01-01eXPRESS Polymer Letters
Natural rubber (NR) as renewable resource is a kind of cheap and versatile elastomer. A disadvantage of NR is that the ozone resistance is not good, which needs to be improved for its wider application. In this study, polymethylvinylsiloxane (PMVS) coating on natural rubber (NR) was realized for the first time by usin…
Advanced Polymer Synthesis and CharacterizationLuminescence and Fluorescent MaterialsDendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers
Ravindra V. Ghorpade、C. R. Rajan、Nayaku Chavan 等 4 位作者2015-01-01eXPRESS Polymer Letters
Silica nanoparticles were modified with aromatic amino groups and modified-silica/polyimide composite films were prepared using them. 3,3!,4,4!-Benzophenone tetracarboxylic dianhydride (BTDA) and 4,4!-oxydianiline (ODA) were used as precursors for polyimide matrix. The structures of the modified nanoparticles and hybr…
Polymer Nanocomposites and PropertiesSynthesis and properties of polymersSilicone and Siloxane Chemistry
Wentao Liu、Yong Yang、Peili Shen 等 7 位作者2015-01-01eXPRESS Polymer Letters
The nanocarrier is linked to the core and shell by hydrogen bond. This drug delivery system represents a smart, biodegradable, and pH-sensitive nanocarrier for breast cancer therapy. These drug nanocarriers were linked by hydrogen bond from -NH 2 on chitosan and -OH on mesoporous silica nanoparticle (MSN). And MSN was…
Nanoparticle-Based Drug DeliveryAdvanced Drug Delivery SystemsDendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers
Gert Heinrich、Thomas A. Vilgis2015-01-01eXPRESS Polymer Letters
In this paper we apply and discuss some new aspects to the steric interaction of filler particles in reinforced elastomers under dynamic mechanical loading conditions. At certain concentration the filler particles (for example, carbon black, or silica) form loose clusters which themselves interact with each other and…
Material Dynamics and PropertiesTheoretical and Computational PhysicsRheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies
G. Arena、K. Friedrich、Domenico Acierno 等 7 位作者2015-01-01eXPRESS Polymer Letters
The wear resistance of several thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs) having different chemical nature and micronscale arrangement of the hard and soft segments has been investigated by means of erosion and abrasion tests. The goal was correlating the erosion performances of the materials to their macroscopic mechanical p…
Diamond and Carbon-based Materials ResearchErosion and Abrasive MachiningTribology and Wear Analysis
Jian Hou、Li Song2015-01-01Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
Pitting corrosion has been observed in steel bars of existing reinforced concrete (RC) structures in different erosion environments and has been identified as a potential origin for fatigue crack nucleation. In the present study, under uniaxial tension loading, stress distribution in the steel bars with one or two sem…
Igor Kolesov、Oleksandr Dolynchuk、H.‐J. Radusch2015-01-01eXPRESS Polymer Letters
The present study deals with thermally induced one-way and invertible two-way shape-memory effect (SME) in covalent networks on the basis of crystallizable (co)polymers and their blends and is an attempt to generalize the results of own investigation received by the authors in the last ten years. The main focus of wor…
Polymer composites and self-healingMarine Sponges and Natural ProductsSynthetic Organic Chemistry Methods
Gerald Polt、Florian Spieckermann、Harald Wilhelm 等 7 位作者2015-01-01eXPRESS Polymer Letters
In-situ X-ray diffraction was applied to isotactic polypropylene with a high volume fraction of !-phase (!-iPP) while it has been compressed at temperatures below and above its glass transition temperature T g . The diffraction patterns were evaluated by the Multi-reflection X-ray Profile Analysis (MXPA) method, revea…
Polymer crystallization and propertiesPolymer Nanocomposites and PropertiesFiber-reinforced polymer composites
Airong Xu、Lili Cao、Bingjun Wang 等 4 位作者2015-01-01Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
Four cellulose solvents including [C2mim][CH3COO] + DMSO, [C4mim][CH3COO] + DMSO, [C6mim][CH3COO] + DMSO, and [C8mim][CH3COO] + DMSO were prepared by adding dimethyl sulfoxide DMSO in 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate [C2mim][CH3COO], 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate [C4mim][CH3COO], 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium a…
Advanced Cellulose Research StudiesLignin and Wood ChemistryDyeing and Modifying Textile Fibers
Luciana Restle、Daniela Costa-Silva、Emanuelle Stellet Lourenço 等 7 位作者2015-01-01Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
Biomedical materials for bone therapy are usually assessed for their biocompatibility and safety employing animal models or in vitro monolayer cell culture assays. However, alternative in vitro models may offer controlled conditions closer to physiological responses and reduce animal testing. In this work, we develope…
Changwen Mi、Kaikai Shao、Xiaobao Li2015-01-01Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
Reinforcement corrosion resulting from chloride attack is one major mechanism that compromises concrete durability. Numerical methods were commonly used for tackling Fick’s diffusion equations. In this paper, we developed a Crank-Nicolson based finite difference scheme suitable for circular concrete structures. Both a…
Dyi-Cheng Chen、Ming-Fei Chen、Ming-Ren Chen2015-01-01Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
This study will be about UV (355 nm) laser processing system as a carrier. It studied electrode insulated characteristic using laser direct forming for CIGS solar cell technology P2 layer of stainless steel. It explored the impact of this process on the way to stainless steel substrate P2 film sizes using its laser di…
Yin Shen、Shaohui Lu、Fangyuan Li2015-01-01Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
Carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) is currently used to reinforce buildings in civil engineering in the common forms of sheets, while the utilization efficiency of a CFRP materials greatly decreased when the CFRP material is directly bonded to the structure because of the lack of the effect of the exertion of a pr…