Publication date: May 2018 Source:European Polymer Journal, Volume 102 Author(s): E.D. Farias, M.C.G. Passeggi, V. Brunetti The thermal transitions of confined polymers are important for their applications in nanoscale devices and innovative technologies. However, thermal transitions of ultra-thin polymer assemblies confined in sub-nanometer...

Publication date: Available online 12 April 2018 Source:European Polymer Journal Author(s): Balázs Kirschweng, Dániel Mirkó Tilinger, Bence Hégely, Gyula Samu, Dóra Tátraaljai, Enikő Földes, Béla Pukánszky The stabilization effect of a flavonoid type natural antioxidant, rutin, was compared to that of quercetin in polyethylene. Additive...

Publication date: June 2018 Source:European Polymer Journal, Volume 103 Author(s): Mehrnaz Moaddab, Jhamak Nourmohammadi, Ali Hossein Rezayan This study introduces and characterizes the biomimetic and bioactive scaffolds for bone regeneration based on silk fibroin (SF)-carboxymethyl chitosan (CMCh) incorporated with ascorbic acid (AA)-loaded...

Publication date: May 2018 Source:European Polymer Journal, Volume 102 Author(s): Simanta Doley, Swapan K. Dolui Bio-based Non-Isocyanate Polyurethanes (NIPUs) were synthesized by bulk polyaddition of diamine with carbonated sunflower oil (CSFO). Carbonated vegetable oils were obtained by solvent-free mixture reaction of CO2 with epoxidized...

Publication date: June 2018 Source:European Polymer Journal, Volume 103 Author(s): Varun Danke, Gaurav Gupta, Sophie Reimann, Wolfgang H. Binder, Mario Beiner We report findings of a comparative study of a comb-like polymer, poly(1,4-phenylene-2,5-n-didecyloxy terephthalate) [PPDOT] and a linear chain precision polymer consisting of a...

Publication date: May 2018 Source:European Polymer Journal, Volume 102 Author(s): Zheng Lu, Jiang-Huai Hu, Chang Chen, Wei-Feng Peng, Zheng-Zhou Liu, Yang Liu, Ke Zeng, Gang Yang To broaden the application of polyimide materials, adenine-based polyimide/nano-silica hybrid films were prepared via sol-gel method without using coupling...