Apparent Surface Free Energy of Polymer/Paper Composite Material Treated by Air Plasma by Konrad Terpiłowski

“…In this paper composite polymer/paper material is used for production of packaging in cosmetic industry. …”
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Nanocomposites for extrinsic self-healing polymer Materials: A comprehensive review of their repair behaviour by Arunima Verma, Kumud Bhushan, Harwinder Singh

“…This review explores the critical role of nanomaterials and nanostructures in enhancing the healing process, owing to their extensive surface area, abundant functional groups, and unique properties. From a historical perspective, it traces key developments in the design philosophy behind polymer self-healing and provides a comprehensive overview of recent advancements that leverage nanotechnology to improve healing efficiency and introduce novel functionalities. …”
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Gelling Characteristics and Mechanisms of Heat-Triggered Soy Protein Isolated Gels Incorporating Curdlan with Different Helical Conformations by Pei-Wen Long, Shi-Yong Liu, Yi-Xin Lin, Lin-Feng Mo, Yu Wu, Long-Qing Li, Le-Yi Pan, Ming-Yu Jin, Jing-Kun Yan

“…The results demonstrated that CUR significantly improved the functional properties of SPI gels, including water-holding capacity (0.31–5.06% increase), gel strength (7.01–240.51% enhancement), textural properties, viscoelasticity, and thermal stability. …”
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Structure and dielectric properties in the radio frequency range of polymer composites based on vanadium dioxide by V. R. Kolbunov, A. S. Tonkoshkur, K. V. Antonova

“…Polymer composites with active fillers are recently considered to be promising materials for the design of new functional devices with controllable properties and are intensively investigated. …”
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Thiol‐X Chemistry: A Skeleton Key Unlocking Advanced Polymers in Additive Manufacturing by James Anthony Dicks, Chris Woolard

“…The “click” nature of many thiol‐X reactions, mechanisms of polymerization, functional group tolerance and orthogonality, and diverse and desirable properties achievable with thiol‐X chemistry presents a synergistic opportunity that few other chemistries can as broadly facilitate. …”
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Dual production of biconvex polymer particles via surfactant-laden microfluidic ternary droplets by Siyuan Xu, Takasi Nisisako

“…By precisely adjusting the flow-rate ratios, we achieved flexible control over the shape and size of the monomer segments, allowing for the tailored production of biconvex polymer particles. This versatile and efficient technique shows significant promise for advancing the development of specialized micro-optical elements and other functional materials, particularly in optics and imaging.…”
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Preparation of Magnetic Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for Selective Recognition and Determination of Clenbuterol in Pork Samples by Yingjuan Zhao, Zufei Feng, Sijin Li, Yan Lu, Yangfan Hu, Hua Fan, Xinyue Zhai

“…Magnetic molecularly imprinted polymer (MMIP) was successfully synthesized with acrylamide as a functional monomer and clenbuterol (CLB) as a template molecule. …”
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Magnetodielectric Effects in Magnetorheological Elastomers Based on Polymer Fabric, Silicone Rubber, and Magnetorheological Suspension by A. M. Gavrilovici, E. M. Anitas, L. Chirigiu, I. Bica, M. L. Negrutiu

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Noncovalently D-arabinitol Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIPs) to Identify Different Sugar Alcohols by Yuni Retnaningtyas, Ganden Supriyanto, Roedi Irawan, Siswandono Siswodihardjo

“…The main objective of this research is to synthesize D-arabinitol MIPs, which can selectively separate                  D-arabinitol and its potential application to differentiate it from its enantiomer compound through a non-covalent approach. A macroporous polymer was synthesized using D-arabinitol as a template, acrylamide as a functional monomer, ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EGDMA) being a cross-linker, dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) being a porogen, as well as benzoyl peroxide being an initiator. …”
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Synthesis and Evaluation of Molecularly Imprinted Polymer for the Determination of the Phthalate Esters in the Bottled Beverages by HPLC by Ya-Feng Jin, Yi-Jun Zhang, Yu-Ping Zhang, Jun Chen, Xiao-Mao Zhou, Lian-Yang Bai

“…A molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) was prepared in acetonitrile by bulk polymerization, using di-n-octylphthalate (DOP) as a template molecular, α-methacrylic acid (MAA) as a functional monomer, and ethylene dimethacrylate (EDMA) as a crosslinker. …”
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Organic and Metal–Organic Polymer-Based Catalysts—Enfant Terrible Companions or Good Assistants? by Milan Králik, Peter Koóš, Martin Markovič, Pavol Lopatka

“…Various types of polymers are discussed, including vinyl (various functional poly(styrene-co-divinylbenzene) and perfluorinated functionalized hydrocarbons, e.g., Nafion), condensation (polyesters, -amides, -anilines, -imides), and additional (polyurethanes, and polyureas, polybenzimidazoles, polyporphyrins), prepared from organometal monomers. …”
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Two‐Regime Conformation of Grafted Polymer on Nanoparticle Determines Symmetry of Nanoparticle Self‐Assembly by Ji Woong Yu, Hongseok Yun, Won Bo Lee, YongJoo Kim

“…Moreover, the self‐assembly structure depends on the effective softness, which is defined as a function of the threshold of two regimes estimated from the conformation of the polymer.…”
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Synthesis and Evaluation of a Water-Soluble Hyperbranched Polymer as Enhanced Oil Recovery Chemical by Nanjun Lai, Xiaoping Qin, Zhongbin Ye, Qin Peng, Yan Zhang, Zheng Ming

“…A novel hyperbranched polymer was synthesized using acrylamide (AM), acrylic acid (AA), N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone (NVP), and dendrite functional monomer as raw materials by redox initiation system in an aqueous medium. …”
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Precise placement of thioester bonds into sequence-controlled polymers containing ABAC-type units by Yanni Xia, Tong Shao, Yue Sun, Jianuo Wang, Chaoyuan Gu, Chengjian Zhang, Xinghong Zhang

“…The chemoselectivity of the polymerization is revealed by density functional theory calculations. The polymer library exhibits considerably tunable performance: glass-transition temperatures of −36–72 °C, melting temperatures of 43–133 °C, degradability, thermoplastics/elastomers, and thioester-based functions. …”
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Vegetable oil-derived epoxy monomers and polymer blends: A comparative study with review by T. P. Schuman, R. Wang

“…The results indicated that polymer glass transition temperatures were mostly a function of oxirane content with additional influence of glycidyl versus internal oxirane reactivity, pendant chain content, and chemical structure and presence of saturated components. …”
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Micromechanical models and experiments for diffractive elastic constants of TATB-based polymer-bonded explosives by Hua-peng Liu, Qian-qian Wen, Wei Tang, Hong Wang, Xi-lin Yan

“…TATB-based polymer-bonded explosives (PBXs) exhibit intricate internal stress distributions due to crystal anisotropy. …”
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CARBON-FIBRE-REINFORCED POLYMER PARTS EFFECT ON SPACECRAFT OPTOELECTRONIC MODULE LENS SCATTERING by S. S. Kolasha, R. V. Fiodortсev, A. V. Starovoitov

“…The work included experimental study in order to determine bidirectional reflectance distribution function by goniometric method for LUP-0.1 carbon fabric check test pieces of EDT-69U epoxy binder with EPOFLEX-0.4 glue layer and 5056-3.5-23-A aluminium honeycomb filler. …”
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Voronoi-cell lattice modeling of the elastic behavior of pultruded glass fiber reinforced polymers by Hadi Abbaszadeh, Yusuke Mochida, Alessandro Fascetti

“…First, the manuscript introduces the analytical derivations required to evaluate the elastic properties to assign to the lattice elements as a function of the geometrical relationships between the material planes of symmetry and the element orientation. …”
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Studies on PVA/MAA:EA polymer blend films modified by Fe3+ doping by Neeruganti Obularajugari Gopal, Mahammad Hussain Basha, Ojha Pravakar, Yedurupaka Madhav Kumar

“…The number of spins engaged in the resonance as a function of dopant concentration is determined through EPR analysis and the paramagnetic susceptibility is estimated. …”
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Low content of modified-SCF in waterborne epoxy: mechanical properties and interfacial microstructure by Afagh Panahi Moghadam, Kourosh Shirvani

“…Higher silane concentrations increased the SCF diameter and its surface smoothness. The effect of functional groups containing Si, on the mechanical properties of SCF reinforced WEP were investigated. …”
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