Publication date: 25 April 2018 Source:Polymer, Volume 142 Author(s): Pierre Gilormini, Jacques Verdu A kinetic model is proposed for the absorption of water in polymers. The process of bonding-debonding water molecules is described by two opposite reactions with different rate constants, and the key role of the concentration of traps by hydrogen...

Publication date: 25 April 2018 Source:Polymer, Volume 142 Author(s): D. Palma-Ramírez, M.A. Domínguez-Crespo, A.M. Torres-Huerta, V.A. Escobar-Barrios, H. Dorantes-Rosales, H. Willcock Upconverting luminescent poly (methylmethacrylate) (PMMA)/poly (urethane) (PU) interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) nanohybrids were prepared using...

Publication date: 9 May 2018 Source:Polymer, Volume 143 Author(s): Suzanne Morsch, Zoi Kefallinou, Yanwen Liu, Stuart B. Lyon, Simon R. Gibbon The internal topology of epoxy resins is, for the first time, shown not to be the determining factor for small molecule transport. Whilst epoxy resins comprise the matrix component of many high...

Publication date: 25 April 2018 Source:Polymer, Volume 142 Author(s): Roya Sedghi, Nastaran Sayyari, Alireza Shaabani, Hassan Niknejad, Tahereh Tayebi Combining biocompatible polymers and bioactive molecules, holds promising potential as a bone substitute due to its favorable osteoinductivity. In the present study, graphene oxide (GO)...

Publication date: 9 May 2018 Source:Polymer, Volume 143 Author(s): Jingxing Feng, Ziyou Zhang, Adrien Bironeau, Alain Guinault, Guillaume Miquelard-Garnier, Cyrille Sollogoub, Andrew Olah, Eric Baer Multilayer films comprising polystyrene (PS)/polymethyl methalcrylate (PMMA) and PS/polycaprolatone (PCL) alternating nanolayers with...

Publication date: 25 April 2018 Source:Polymer, Volume 142 Author(s): Jacob R. McLaughlin, Nicholas L. Abbott, C. Allan Guymon In this work, stimuli-responsive, superabsorbent materials are created by copolymerization of stimuli-responsive poly(n-isopropyl acrylamide) (PNIPAM) in combination with superabsorbent sodium acrylate (SA) via photopolymerization...