Optical Study on Poly(methyl methacrylate)/Poly(vinyl acetate) Blends by R. M. Ahmed

“…Transparent films of poly(methyl methacrylate)/poly(vinyl acetate) blend with different concentrations were prepared by using solution-cast technique. …”
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The Preparation and Characterization of Chitosan / Poly (Vinyl Alcohol) Blended Films by Esam A. El-Hefian, Mohamed Mahmoud Nasef, Abdul Hamid Yahaya

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Preparation and Property of Xylan/Poly(Methacrylic Acid) Semi-Interpenetrating Network Hydrogel by Xiao-Feng Sun, Yang Feng, Xiaodi Shi, Yaxiong Wang

“…The chemical structure and morphology of the prepared hydrogels were characterized by FT-IR spectroscopy and SEM analysis. …”
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Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) and Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate): Structure, Property, and Fiber by Qingsheng Liu, Hongxia Zhang, Bingyao Deng, Xiaoyan Zhao

“…Then the drawbacks of P(3HB) and P(3HB-co-3HV) including brittleness, narrow melt processing window, low crystallization rate, slow biodegradation rate in body, and so on were summarized. At last, the preparation, structure, and properties of P(3HB) and P(3HB-co-3HV) fiber were introduced.…”
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The Study of Release of Chlorhexidine from Preparations with Modified Thermosensitive Poly-N-isopropylacrylamide Microspheres by Witold Musial, Bojana Voncina, Janusz Pluta, Vanja Kokol

“…The preparations, assessed in vitro below the VPTT, release an initial burst of CX at different time periods between 120 and 240 min, followed by a period of 24 h, when the rate of release remains approximately constant, approaching the zero-order kinetics; the release rates for the polymers beads are as follows: pNIPAM-C>pNIPAM-B>pNIPAM-A. …”
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A Novel Method to Prepare PolyGMA and its Application to Immobilization of β-Galactosidase by Sun Sufang, Dong Lingyun

“…The conclusion obtained indicated that the ployGMA prepared concurrently with liquid and solid porogen was more suitable to immobilize enzyme because of the much more porous surface structure obtained.…”
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Composites Based Green Poly(L-Lactic Acid) and Dioctyl Phthalate: Preparation and Performance by Yan-Hua Cai, Li-Sha Zhao, Yan-Hua Zhang

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Preparation and In Vitro Behavior of a Poly(lactic acid)-Fiber/Hydroxyapatite Composite Sheet by Yasuhiro Tanimoto, Norihiro Nishiyama

“…In conclusion, a PLA-fiber/HA composite sheet for use as a scaffold was successfully prepared. Within the limitations of this investigation, we confirmed that the PLA-fiber/HA composite sheet has a high apatite formation activity compared with the PLA-fiber sheet and represents a promising material for use as a scaffold.…”
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Advanced Breast Cancer Diagnostics With PolyBreastVit: A Combined PolyNet and Vision Transformer Approach by Visalakshi Annepu, Mohamed Abbas, Hanumatha Rao Bitra, Naveen Kumar Vaegae, Kalapraveen Bagadi

“…For the enhancement of the proposed model’s accuracy, thorough data augmentation and preprocessing have been performed. The performance of PolyBreastVit is evaluated against several well-known DL models such as VGG-16, Inception V3, and ResNet-50 using accuracy, precision, recall, F1, AUC, and other standard metrics. …”
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Fracture Toughness Improvement of Poly(lactic acid) Reinforced with Poly(ε-caprolactone) and Surface-Modified Silicon Carbide by Jie Chen, Tian-Yi Zhang, Fan-Long Jin, Soo-Jin Park

“…In this study, bio-based poly(lactic acid) (PLA)/polycaprolactone (PCL) blends and PLA/PCL/silicon carbide (SiC) composites were prepared using a solution blending method. …”
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Preparation of Two-Layer Anion-Exchange Poly(ethersulfone) Based Membrane: Effect of Surface Modification by Lucie Zarybnicka, Eliska Stranska, Jana Machotova, Gabriela Lencova

“…Followed by amination, a two-layer anion-exchange membrane was prepared. The effect of surface layer treatment using the extraction in various solvents on membrane morphological and electrochemical characteristics was studied. …”
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Preparation and Characterization of Chitosan/Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Blended Films: Mechanical, Thermal and Surface Investigations by Esam A. El-Hefian, Mohamed Mahmoud Nasef, Abdul Hamid Yahaya

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Preparation, Thermal Properties and Decomposition Course of Highly Resistant Potato Starch Graft Poly(Cinnamyl Methacrylate) Materials by Marta Worzakowska

“…The heterogeneous, non-porous structure materials were prepared. They were characterized by significant lower swelling in polar solvents and moisture absorption but higher swelling in non-polar solvents compared to unmodified potato starch. …”
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Silver Nanoparticles Decorated in In Situ Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanohybrids Improved Properties in Poly(vinylidene fluoride)/Poly(methyl methacrylate) Blends by Afifeh Khorramshokouh, Hesam Ramezani, Mehdi Sahami, Mehdi Sharif, Behzad Vaferi

“…In this paper, reduced graphene oxide decorated with silver nanoparticle (rGO-Ag) nanohybrids were prepared using an environmentally friendly approach and incorporated as reinforcement in poly(vinylidene fluoride)-poly(methyl methacrylate) blends via a melt mixing process. …”
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The Synthesis and Characterization of Poly(methyl methacrylate-tourmaline acrylate) by Yingmo Hu, Xubo Chen, Yunhua Li

“…The synthetic processes were optimized, and the structures of the as-prepared samples were characterized by IR, SEM, and X-ray fluorescence analysis. …”
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Poly(vinyl alcohol) Hydrogels: The Old and New Functional Materials by Menghan Wang, Jianzhong Bai, Kan Shao, Wenwei Tang, Xueling Zhao, Donghai Lin, Shan Huang, Cheng Chen, Zheng Ding, Jiayi Ye

“…In this paper, the discovery, development, preparation, modification methods, and applications of PVA functionalized hydrogels are reviewed, and their potential applications and future research trends are also prospected.…”
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Biocompatible and Biodegradable Ultrafine Nanoparticles of Poly(Methyl Methacrylate-co-Methacrylic Acid) Prepared via Semicontinuous Heterophase Polymerization: Kinetics and Product Characterization by Henned Saade, María de Lourdes Guillén, Judith Cabello Romero, Jesús Cepeda, Anna Ilyna, Salvador Fernández, Francisco Javier Enríquez-Medrano, Raúl Guillermo López

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Structure and Electrical Study of New Chemically Modified Poly(vinyl chloride) by F. Ammari, M. Dardouri, M. Kahlaoui, F. Meganem

“…Modified poly(vinyl chloride) was prepared in two steps. The structural properties of the polymer were systematically investigated by varieties of techniques as differential scanning calorimetric (DSC), thermogravimetry analysis (TG), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. …”
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Effects of Inorganic Fillers on the Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Poly(lactic acid) by Xingxun Liu, Tongxin Wang, Laurence C. Chow, Mingshu Yang, James W. Mitchell

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Synthesis and Characterization of Metal Sulfides Nanoparticles/Poly(methyl methacrylate) Nanocomposites by Peter A. Ajibade, Johannes Z. Mbese

“…Metal sulfides nanoparticles in poly(methyl methacrylate) matrices were prepared and characterized by infrared spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, powder X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope (SEM), and transmission electron microscope (TEM). …”
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