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Nonisothermal Crystallization of Compatible PCL/PVC Blends under Supercritical CO2
Nonisothermal crystallizations of polycaprolactone (PCL) in the presence of poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) at a cooling rate of 0.5 °C/min from 90 to 30 °C under supercritical CO2 at a constant pressure 304 atm were ...
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A Spramolecular Star-Like Polymer
This study reports the creation of star-like chain architecture through complexation of a mono-amino terminated poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO-NH2) with a macrocyclic compound, 4-sulfonic calix[n]arene (n=4 and 8) (SC...
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Lamellar Thickness of a Syndiotactic Polystyrene Determined from Small-angle X-ray Scattering and Transmission Electron Microscopy
Extensive morphological studies on a syndiotactic polystyrene (sPS) sample prepared from compression molding were carried out using small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM...
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Diluent Segregation in Crystalline/Amorphous Poly(vinylidene fluoride)/Poly(vinyl acetate) Blends. Segregation Distance Dominated by the Crystal Growth Kinetics
We systematically studied the effects of composition and crystallization temperature (Tc) on the morphological patterns of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF)/poly(vinyl acetate) (PVAc) blends by means of small angl...
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Free Radical Scavenging and Photodynamic Functions of Micelle-like Hydrophilic Hexa(sulfobutyl)fullerene (FC4S)
Biological applications of water-soluble hexa(sulfobutyl)fullerene (FC 4 S) are reviewed. It was synthesized in a yield of 80–85% by the t...
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Free Radical Scavenging and Photodynamic Functions of Micelle-like Hydrophilic Hexa(sulfobutyl)fullerene (FC4S)
Biological applications of water-soluble hexa(sulfobutyl)fullerene (FC4S) are reviewed. It was synthesized in a yield of 80–85% by the treatment of C60 in dimethoxyethane (DME) with sodium naphthalide (10 equiv.)...
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Soft-and hard-segment phase segregation of polyester-based polyurethane
Polyester based polyurethanes were synthesized from 4,4′-methylene bis(phenyl isocyanate) (MDI) with butanediol as a chain extender and low molecular weight polyester-diol as a soft segment. Three polyesters w...
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Phase Segregation of Crosslinked Polyurethane by Small Angle X-Ray Scattering
Polyester based polyurethanes were synthesized from a low molecular weight polyester (Mn∼2000) and 4,4′-methylene bis(phenyl isocyanate) (MDI) with butanediol as a chain extender and glycerol as crosslinker. The ...
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Solid-state complexes of poly(N-vinyl-pyrrolidone) and dodecyl benzene sulfonic acid: Self-assembled structure and thermal properties
Solid-state complexes of flexible polymers with long-tail surfactants (surf) exhibit mesomorphic phase and microphase-separated lamellar morphology consisting of alternating polymer and surf layers. The alkyl ...
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A small-angle X-ray scattering study of microphase separation transition of polyurethanes: Effect of hard segments
Three segmented polyurethane block copolymers PU-M, PU-X and PU-T containing different diisocynates, diphenylmethane-4,4'-diisocyanate (MDI), xylene diisocyanate (XDI) and 2,4-toluene diisocyanate (TDI) respec...
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Studies of 1-C16-2-C6-PC and 1-C6-2-C16-PC rodlike micelles by small-angle neutron scattering
Small-angle neutron scattering measurements have been made to determine the structure of the 1-hexadecanoyl-2-hexanoyl-phosphatidylcholine (1-C16-2-C6-PC) and 1-hexanoyl-2-hexadecanyol-phosphatidylcholine (1-C6-2...
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Cold fusion experiment at Department of Nuclear Engineering, National Tsing-Hua University
We have repeated the so-called cold fusion experiment by electrolyzing heavy water, with 0.1M LiOD, with palladium rod as the cathode and platinum wire as the anode. The purpose of our experiment is to dectect th...
