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Polymer Flooding
In this chapter, the concept of polymer flooding and the flow characteristics of polymer solution in porous media are introduced. The enhanced oil...
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Modeling Polymer Crystallization
We summarize the salient conclusions derived from Langevin dynamics simulations of many flexible polymer molecules undergoing crystallization from...
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Polymer Crystallization Driven by Anisotropic Interactions
In this review, we consider a variety of aspects of polymer crystallization using a very simple lattice model. This model has three ingredients...
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Molecular Imagingof Microstructured Polymer Surfaces
Within last decade both IR and Raman spectroscopy gained the potential of imaging the chemical heterogeneity of material surfaces. IR...
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Visualization of Charge Domains on Polymer Surfaces
The tribo-electric charging of polymers is widely known and applied in many technical processes. However, the molecular and electronic reasons for...
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Predictive modeling as a tool to assess polymer–polymer and polymer–drug interactions for tissue engineering applications
The success of tissue engineering scaffolds for wound healing relies on balanced physicochemical properties and the addition of small molecules....
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Molecular Chaperone-Dependent Polymer Translocation through Nanopores: The Effects of Chaperone Concentration and Chaperone-Polymer Interaction
The polymer translocation through a nanopore from a donor space (or named cis side) to a receiver space ( trans side) in the chaperone-induced crowded...
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New developments in polymer brush fabrication: concepts and physical properties of dynamic polymer brushes
In contrast to fabricating polymer brushes using conventional grafting-to and grafting-from techniques, we fabricated polymer brushes using a novel...
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Polymer Analysis: Molar Mass Determination
A key parameter for macromolecular substances is their molar mass or degree of polymerization. This chapter focuses on the question of how to...
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Starch-Based Superabsorbent Polymer
Superabsorbent polymers (SAP) were made by cross-linking carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) and starch, and their efficacy as a water-retaining aid for...
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Surface-Grafted Polymer Gradients: Formation, Characterization, and Applications
This review presents to-date progress in the formation of surface-tethered polymer assemblies with gradually varying physico-chemical properties....
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Polymer Translocation
The translocation of a polymer through a pore that is much smaller than its size is a fundamental and actively researched topic in polymer physics....
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Polymer Biodegradability 2.0: A Holistic View on Polymer Biodegradation in Natural and Engineered Environments
Biodegradable polymers are an important part of the solution toolbox to achieve circularity in the plastic economy and overcome negative impacts of a...
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Sedimentation and diffusion coefficients in polymer solutions and gels
Recently Lamm’s differential equation, which frequently was applied in ultracentrifugal sedimentation experiments of polymer solutions, was extended...
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Critical to Mean Field Crossover in Polymer Blends
Crossover phenomena due to thermal composition fluctuations play a multifarious role in polymer blends. This is demonstrated in this article by...
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Reactive surfactants for commercial polymer dispersions
Surfactants play a dual role in emulsion polymerization. Dispersions of film-forming polymers are being used commercially as binders in a range of...
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Mechanical scission of a knotted polymer
Molecular knots and entanglements form randomly and spontaneously in both biological and synthetic polymer chains. It is known that macroscopic...
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Synthetic Polymer-Based Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering
Hydrogels are a type of biomaterial that are made up of water and a polymer network. They are often used in tissue engineering because they offer...
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Polymer membrane based on ABC type triblock co-polymer for safer lithium-ion solid-state batteries
Solid-state membranes with high ionic conductivity and good mechanical and electrochemical properties are desirable for next-generation lithium-ion...
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An asymmetric non-fused electron-deficient building block for low-cost polymer acceptor in all-polymer solar cells
The development of polymerized fused-ring small molecule acceptors (FRA-PAs) has boosted the performance of all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs)....
