This review summarises the most recent advances in the application of anodic aluminium
oxide (AAO) membranes as templates to prepare poly (vinylidenefluoride)-(PVDF) or poly …

The widespread applications of polymeric materials require the use of conventional flame
retardants based on halogen and phosphorous compounds to satisfy fire safety regulatory …

Nature-inspired artificial Z-scheme photocatalyst offers great promise in solar overall water
splitting, but its rational design, construction and interfacial charge transfer mechanism …

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

Spatial confinement in nanoporous media affects the structure, thermodynamics and mobility
of molecular soft matter often markedly. This article reviews thermodynamic equilibrium …

Classical crystal growth models posit that crystallization outcomes are determined by nuclei
that resemble mature crystal phases, but at a critical size where the volume free energy of …

Conspectus Crystallization of polymeric materials under nanoscopic confinement is highly
relevant for nanotechnology applications. When a polymer is confined within rigid …

Human vital signs such as the heartbeat and respiration are important physiological
parameters for public health care. Precisely monitoring these very minute and complex time …

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 …

Polymer nanotechnology allows manipulating materials microstructure, morphology and
compositional variation on the nanometer scale. Thus, it is able to provide materials for …