Synthesis of deuterated and sulfurated polymers by inverse vulcanization: engineering infrared transparency via deuteration

MH Qureshi, J Bao, TS Kleine, KJ Kim… - Journal of the …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
The synthesis of deuterated, sulfurated, proton-free, glassy polymers offers a route to optical
polymers for infrared (IR) optics, specifically for midwave IR (MWIR) photonic devices …

Hydrogen/deuterium (H/D) exchange catalysis in alkanes

A Sattler - ACS Catalysis, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
The catalytic exchange of hydrogen and deuterium (H/D exchange) in light alkanes has
been studied for almost a century. While alkanes and their C–H bonds are relatively inert …

Hydrogenolysis of linear low-density polyethylene during heterogeneous catalytic hydrogen–deuterium exchange

SP Ertem, CE Onuoha, H Wang, MA Hillmyer… - …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Exchange of deuterium (D) for hydrogen (H) on polyolefins enabled by heterogeneous
catalysts is a versatile and relatively inexpensive technique to obtain matched pairs of …

Nanoscale chemical imaging of a deuterium-labeled polyolefin copolymer in a polyolefin blend by atomic force microscopy-infrared spectroscopy

MA Rickard, GF Meyers, BM Habersberger… - Polymer, 2017‏ - Elsevier
A combination of atomic force microscopy-infrared spectroscopy (AFM-IR) and a deuterium-
labeled ethylene-propylene (EP) copolymer enables direct nanoscale chemical imaging of …

SANS evidence of liquid–liquid phase separation leading to inversion of crystallization rate of broadly distributed random ethylene copolymers

X Chen, GD Wignall, L He, C Lopez-Barron… - …, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Aiming to understand the inversion of crystallization kinetics observed by DSC, detailed
SANS investigations of the melt structure of a broadly distributed ethylene–1-hexene …

Strategies for the synthesis of well-defined star polymers by anionic polymerization with chlorosilane coupling and preservation of the star architecture during catalytic …

AB Burns, RA Register - Macromolecules, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
The synthesis of isoprene-based star polymers by anionic polymerization, chlorosilane
coupling, and catalytic hydrogenation was studied in detail, with the goal of obtaining and …

Effect of Branching and Molecular Weight on Heterogeneous Catalytic Deuterium Exchange in Polyolefins

Y Zeng, CR López-Barrón, S Kang, APR Eberle… - …, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) is a powerful method for probing the structural
properties of polymeric materials. Contrast between polymer chains can be obtained by …

Impact of molecular weight and comonomer content on catalytic hydrogen-deuterium exchange in polyolefins

S Kang, Y Zeng, TP Lodge, FS Bates, P Brant… - Polymer, 2016‏ - Elsevier
The effect of molecular weight (MW) and comonomer content (CC) on the catalytic hydrogen-
deuterium exchange process (CHDEP) in a series of polyethylenes has been studied using …

Solvent and Polymer Stereochemistry Play Key Roles in Deuterium Exchange and Partial Racemization of Polypropylenes

BM Habersberger, DW Baugh III - Macromolecules, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
Recent reports have described deuterium exchange reactions on polyolefins; such isotopic
labeling enables powerful analytical techniques, but exchange on isotactic polypropylene …

Decagram scale production of deuterated mineral oil and polydecene as solvents for polymer studies in neutron scattering

MA Klenner, M Cagnes, K Wood, K Mita… - Polymer …, 2020‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Decagram scale syntheses of deuterated mineral oil (d-MO) and poly (1-decene)(d-PD)
were achieved by direct catalytic hydrothermal H/D exchange reaction in D2O. Nuclear …