Nowadays, there are still numerous challenges for well-known biomedical applications,
such as tissue engineering (TE), wound healing and controlled drug delivery, which must be …

In recent years, nanomaterials have aroused extensive research interest in the world's
material science community. Electrospinning has the advantages of wide range of available …

Two-way shape memory polymers (2W-SMPs) are a novel class of shape memory polymers
with the reversible and programmable shape-changing behavior which have gained …

The interest in confined crystallization has greatly increased with the development and
progress of nanotechnology applications. Polymeric confined crystallization has been …

The crystallization kinetics of semicrystalline polymers is often studied with isothermal
experiments and analyzed by fitting the data with analytical expressions of the Avrami and …

The syntheses, properties and selected applications of star-shaped polymers with arms
composed of homo-or copolymers of polylactide (PLA) is reviewed. The star-shaped …

It is recorded that Théophile-Jules Pelouze first synthesized poly (lactic acid)(PLA) by
polycondensation of lactic acid in 1845. 1 In 1932, Wallace Hume Carothers et al …

Samples of block copolymers (BCP) constituted by semicrystalline blocks of linear low-
density polyethylene (LLDPE) and isotactic polypropylene (iPP) of different block lengths …

The crystallization of heterogeneously nucleated bulk polymers typically occurs in a single
exothermic process, within a narrow temperature range, ie, a single exothermic peak is …

Self-nucleation (SN) is a special nucleation process triggered by self-seeds or self-nuclei
that are generated in a given polymeric material by specific thermal protocols or by inducing …