Well-characterized linear ethylene-butene-1 copolymers with polydispersities lower than 1.1 were modified using an organic peroxide with the purpose of assessing the relative importance of chain-linking processes. The ...

The kinetics pathway of a 4,4′‐diaminodiphenylmethane‐cured diglycidyl ether of bisphenol‐A (DGEBA) epoxy system modified with a PEO–PPO–PEO block copolymer has been investigated by differential scanning calorimetry. The ...

A metal-free protocol to obtain poly(acrylic acid)-block-polycaprolactone diblock copolymers (PAA-b-PCL) by a one-pot method involving simultaneous Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) and Ring Opening ...

The aim of this work is to prepare new keto-enol tautomerizable polystyrene copolymer nanofibers, by infiltrating the polymer into nanoporous anodized aluminum oxide (AAO) nanocavities, and to examine the influence of ...

We study the dynamics of coarsening in a cylinder-forming polystyrene-block-poly(ethylene-alt-propylene) block copolymer thin film deposited on a topographically patterned substrate. Thermal annealing leads to highly ordered ...

Polymer curing is a complex process that significantly delineate the final properties of the synthetized material. In this work, the photo-induced crosslinking reaction of synthetic “bioinspired” copolymers based on thymine ...

In this work, we analyze the thermoresponsive behavior of scaffolds prepared from dioctyl fumarate-N-isopropylacrylamide copolymers (DFN) with different compositions. Lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of these ...

Block copolymers have attracted considerable attention due to their ability to self-assemble into highly regular structures, spanning length scales from several nanometers to over 100 nm. Block copolymers confined in thin ...

In this work we study equilibrium and non-equilibrium structures of smectic block copolymer thin films deposited on a topographically patterned substrate. A Brazovskii free energy model is employed to analyze the coupling ...