To mitigate the various socioeconomic/environmental consequences associated with plastic
waste, it is crucial to adopt strategic measures aimed at source reduction. In this regard, the …

This research was devoted to study the effect of the tacticity on the surface physicochemical
properties of PMMA.(1) Background: The determination of the surface free energy of …

The glass transition temperature (T g) of conjugated polymers is a crucial physical
parameter that governs their mechanical and electrical properties for applications from …

Upon quenching a polymer melt to a temperature T below its glass transition temperature T
g, structural relaxations, physical aging, enable the material to return to equilibrium …

Enantiomers alternately packed stereocomplex crystals (SC) compete with homochiral
enantiomer-packed homocrystals (HC) during the crystallization of poly (lactic acid)(PLA) …

The friction generated between a finger and an object forms the mechanical stimuli behind
fine touch perception. To control friction, and therefore tactile perception, current haptic …

It has been believed that stereo-irregular polymers hardly form crystalline structure because
of the deficient ordering along the backbone direction. Here we show the crystallization of …

An out-of-equilibrium simulation method for tracking the time evolution of glassy systems (or
any other systems that can be described by hop** dynamics over a network of discrete …

A multiscale simulation method to investigate amorphous polymeric materials for vinyl
polymer was applied for glassy polystyrene (PS) with different tacticity. PS chains were …

In the photo-oxidative aging experiments, the observed trend of the molecular weight of
polystyrene (PS) differs from the expected results. By utilizing techniques such as GPC, XPS …