Porous hydrogels: Present challenges and future opportunities

R Foudazi, R Zowada, I Manas-Zloczower, DL Feke - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
In this feature article, we critically review the physical properties of porous hydrogels and
their production methods. Our main focus is nondense hydrogels that have physical pores …

Novel biobased polylactic acid/poly (pentamethylene 2, 5-furanoate) blends for sustainable food packaging

D Rigotti, M Soccio, A Dorigato… - ACS Sustainable …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Here, solution-cast blends of polylactic acid (PLA) and a novel bioderived poly
(pentamethylene 2, 5-furanoate)(PPeF) in variable concentrations (1–50 wt%) are prepared …

[LLIBRE][B] Rheology and processing of polymer nanocomposites

S Thomas, R Muller, J Abraham - 2016 - books.google.com
Rheology and Processing of Polymer Nanocomposites examines the current state of the art
and new challenges in the characterization of nanofiller/polymer interactions, nanofiller …

Entropy production in thermal phase separation: a kinetic-theory approach

Y Zhang, A Xu, G Zhang, Y Gan, Z Chen, S Succi - Soft matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Entropy production during the process of thermal phase-separation of multiphase flows is
investigated by means of a discrete Boltzmann kinetic model. The entropy production rate is …

Nanoparticle induced miscibility in LCST polymer blends: critically assessing the enthalpic and entropic effects

P Xavier, P Rao, S Bose - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of copolymer and polymer blends widened the possibility of creating materials with
multilayered architectures. Hierarchical polymer systems with a wide array of micro and …

Controlling the kinetics of viscoelastic phase separation through self-assembly of spherical nanoparticles or block copolymers

JK Yeganeh, F Goharpey, E Moghimi, G Petekidis… - Soft Matter, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Viscoelastic phase separation (VPS) can produce a network structure of the minor phase,
which needs to be stabilized for designing a heterogeneous structure with desired …

Manipulating the kinetics and mechanism of phase separation in dynamically asymmetric LCST blends by nanoparticles

JK Yeganeh, F Goharpey, E Moghimi… - Physical Chemistry …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The addition of nanoparticles in dynamically asymmetric LCST blends is used to induce
preferred phase-separating morphology by tuning the dynamic asymmetry, and to control …

Mucus as an arrested phase separation gel

AM Philippe, L Cipelletti, D Larobina - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
We investigate the spontaneous restructuring and aging behavior of pig gastric mucus gels
by combining rheology and nonconventional static and dynamic light scattering. We find that …

Rapid production of bicontinuous macroporous materials using intrinsically polymerizable bijels

H Ching, TJ Thorson, B Paul, A Mohraz - Materials Advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The discovery of bicontinuous interfacially jammed emulsion gels (bijels) in 2007 motivated
the development of processing techniques to harness their unique morphological attributes …

Phase miscibility and dynamic heterogeneity in PMMA/SAN blends through solvent free reactive grafting of SAN on graphene oxide

TS Muzata, PL Jagadeshvaran, GP Kar… - Physical Chemistry …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The spatial distribution of nanoparticles in a particular host polymer matrix can be improved
by using brush coated nanoparticles. In this work we have grafted styrene-acrylonitrile (SAN) …