Topic
Polymers research, explained
5 open-access polymers studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- Soft polymers wet UiO-66 without interfacial voids
MD shows flexible PVDF and PEG fill UiO-66 surface pockets; rigid PIM-1 and PS leave microvoids and fail as 70 wt% films.
- pH-swelling chitosan–xanthan gels that hold acyclovir
Free-radical chitosan/xanthan/AMPS networks barely swell in acid but open in intestine-like pH, trapping up to 90.64% acyclovir.
- Watching RAFT PISA grow spheres, worms, vesicles
In situ SAXS shows PGMA45-PHPMA200 aqueous RAFT PISA nucleating in 9–10 min and finishing as ~227 nm vesicles.
- pH-switchable polymer that pulls down N-glycopeptides
A soluble poly(acrylic acid-co-hydrazide) captures glycopeptides in homogeneous solution and precipitates them by dropping pH for MS.
- TGDDM/DICY epoxy cure kinetics and properties
FTIR and non-isothermal DSC show TGDDM/dicyandiamide cures in two autocatalytic stages, then a stiff, low-water-uptake network.