Confined crystallization of polymeric materials

RM Michell, AJ Müller - Progress in Polymer Science, 2016 - Elsevier
The interest in confined crystallization has greatly increased with the development and
progress of nanotechnology applications. Polymeric confined crystallization has been …

[HTML][HTML] Confinement effects on polymer crystallization: From droplets to alumina nanopores

RM Michell, I Blaszczyk-Lezak, C Mijangos, AJ Müller - Polymer, 2013 - Elsevier
We review previous works on polymer confined crystallization employing strategies that
allow confinement to go from the micron to the nanometer scale: droplets, blends, block …

A review on the progress of polymer nanostructures with modulated morphologies and properties, using nanoporous AAO templates

C Mijangos, R Hernández, J Martin - Progress in Polymer Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Polymers with the same chemical composition can provide different properties by reducing
the dimension or simply by altering their nanostructure. The recent literature reports …

Molecular self-assembly of one-dimensional polymer nanostructures in nanopores of anodic alumina oxide templates

H Wu, Y Higaki, A Takahara - Progress in Polymer Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract One-dimensional (1-D) polymer nanostructures have attracted much attention due
to their unique properties and many potential applications in areas such as sensors …

Confined crystallization of polymers within anodic aluminum oxide templates

RM Michell, I Blaszczyk‐Lezak… - Journal of Polymer …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, a review of recent literature on confined crystallization within nanoporous
anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) templates is presented. For almost all infiltrated polymeric …

Crystallization of polymer chains confined in nanodomains

S Nakagawa, H Marubayashi, S Nojima - European Polymer Journal, 2015 - Elsevier
Recent experimental studies are extensively reviewed on the crystallization of polymer
chains spatially confined in small domains with their dimension on the order of 10 nm …

Energy device applications of synthesized 1D polymer nanomaterials

LB Huang, W Xu, J Hao - Small, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 1D polymer nanomaterials as emerging materials, such as nanowires, nanotubes,
and nanopillars, have attracted extensive attention in academia and industry. The distinctive …

Differential scanning calorimetry of polymers

AJ Müller, RM Michell - Polymer Morphology: Principles …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter presents the basics of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) analysis and its
correlation to polymer morphology for semicrystalline polymeric materials. It concentrates on …

Effect of confinement on the synthesis of PMMA in AAO templates and modeling of free radical polymerization

B Sanz, N Ballard, JM Asua, C Mijangos - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
The hierarchical surface structure of polymer materials leads to unique properties which are
of both academic and commercial interest. In this work we explore the ability to replicate the …

In-situ polymerization of styrene in AAO nanocavities

JM Giussi, I Blaszczyk-Lezak, MS Cortizo, C Mijangos - Polymer, 2013 - Elsevier
One of the most promising aspects of the anodic aluminium oxide (AAO) template is the
ability to generate a variety of different hierarchical one-dimensional (1D) polymer …