Electrospun photochromic hybrid membranes for flexible rewritable media

J Wei, X Jiao, T Wang, D Chen - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Ink-free rewritable media has attracted great attention as a potential alternative to current
paper prints, owing to its benefits to reducing paper production and consumption for …

In-situ crosslinked PVA/organosilica hybrid membranes for pervaporation separations

LL Xia, CL Li, Y Wang - Journal of Membrane Science, 2016 - Elsevier
In this work, two novel poly (vinyl alcohol)(PVA)/organosilica hybrid membranes are
developed via the sol–gel process, with phenyltriethoxysilane (PTES) and …

Nanocomposites: an overview

NB Singh, S Agarwal - Emerging Materials Research, 2016 - icevirtuallibrary.com
Materials play key role in every field of technology such as automobile, aerospace,
construction, electronics, medicine, sensors and computing to make people's lives more …

H2TiO3 composite adsorbent foam for efficient and continuous recovery of Li+ from liquid resources

LA Limjuco, GM Nisola, CP Lawagon, SP Lee… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Metatitanic acid (H 2 TiO 3) is a promising lithium ion sieve (LIS) that can supplant
the traditional manganese oxide-based LIS. To materialize its potential use in continuous …

In-situ synthesis of nanofibers with various ratios of BiOClx/BiOBry/BiOIz for effective trichloroethylene photocatalytic degradation

Y Zhang, M Park, HY Kim, B Ding, SJ Park - Applied Surface Science, 2016 - Elsevier
In this work, BiOCl x/BiOBr y/BiOI z (x+ y+ z= 1) composite nanofibers were prepared
through electrospinning and the sol-gel methods. Photocatalytic degradation of …

PVA/carbon dot nanocomposite hydrogels for simple introduction of Ag nanoparticles with enhanced antibacterial activity

M Hu, X Gu, Y Hu, Y Deng… - … Materials and Engineering, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The introduction of nanomaterials to hydrogels is an effective way to improve the mechanical
properties of hydrogels. Herein, carbon nanodot (C‐dot) as a new‐found excellent …

Hollow polycaprolactone composite fibers for controlled magnetic responsive antifungal drug release

B Wang, H Zheng, MW Chang, Z Ahmad… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2016 - Elsevier
Hollow magnetic fibers for trigger based drug release were synthesized using one-step co-
axial electrospinning (COX-ES). This was achieved by encapsulating the antifungal active …

Bio-inspired natural polyphenol cross-linking poly (vinyl alcohol) films with strong integrated strength and toughness

Y Guan, L Shao, D Dong, F Wang, Y Zhang, Y Wang - RSC advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymer composites exhibit very high strength but this is usually found to be at the expense
of toughness, which greatly limits their application in many fields. Inspired by the hierarchical …

Vacuum enhanced membrane distillation for trace contaminant removal of heavy metals from water by electrospun PVDF/TiO2 hybrid membranes

R Moradi, SM Monfared, Y Amini, A Dastbaz - Korean Journal of Chemical …, 2016 - Springer
Electrospun hybrid membranes were synthesized using electrospinning of Poly
(vinylidenefluoride)-titanium tetraisopropoxide (PVDF-TTIP) sol. Asymmetric post-treatment …

Aqueous solution blow spinning of poly (vinyl alcohol) micro-and nanofibers

AMC Santos, ELG Medeiros, JJ Blaker, ES Medeiros - Materials Letters, 2016 - Elsevier
This work addresses the challenge to produce fibers from the water-soluble polymer poly
(vinyl alcohol)(PVA), using solution blow spinning (SBS) with forced solvent evaporation at …