Semicrystalline polymers products usually adopt a crystallized form in their end-use
environment. These crystallized polymers undergo various deformations under different …

Abstract Design of tough hydrogels maintaining structural integrity under multivariable
mechanical loads remains hugely challenging because the anticipated characteristics such …

Stretchable polymer semiconductors (PSCs) have seen great advancements alongside the
development of soft electronics. But it remains a challenge to simultaneously achieve high …

Polymer materials are multiscale systems by definition. Already the description of a single
macromolecule involves a multitude of scales, and cooperative processes in polymer …

Design of admirable conductive hydrogels combining robust toughness, soft flexibility,
desirable conductivity, and freezing resistance remains daunting challenges for meeting the …

Abstract Crosslinked poly (2, 6-dimethyl-1, 4-phenylene oxide)(PPO) using hydrophilic
crosslinkers that contain ethylene oxide (EO) were prepared as novel anion exchange …

Dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations were performed on bulk melts of model
amphiphilic polymer conetworks (APCN), a relatively new macromolecular architecture …

Semi-crystalline polymers often present a complex non-linear behaviour that combines
thermo-viscoelastic and thermo-viscoplastic contributions associated to different deformation …

All‐polymer organic solar cells (OSCs) have shown unparalleled application potential in the
field of flexible wearable electronics in recent years due to the excellent mechanical and …

We have studied tensile deformations of semicrystalline polyethylene (PE) with molecular
dynamics simulations at two different strain rates and temperatures. Compared to earlier …