Electroactive dielectric polymer gels as new-generation soft actuators: A review

Z Liu, YD Liu, Q Shi, Y Liang - Journal of Materials Science, 2021 - Springer
Electroactive dielectric polymer gel (DPG) as a class of electronic type electroactive
polymers has important applications in soft robot, wearable electronics, and biomedical …

Polybenzimidazole gel membrane for the use in fuel cell

A Sannigrahi, S Ghosh, S Maity, T Jana - Polymer, 2011 - Elsevier
Thermoreversible gelation of polybenzimidazole (PBI) in phosphoric acid (PA) is
investigated by studying the gel morphology, thermodynamics of the gelation, and gelation …

Synthesis of poly (vinylidene fluoride)(PVdF)/silica hybrids having interpenetrating polymer network structure by using crystallization between PVdF chains

T Ogoshi, Y Chujo - Journal of Polymer Science Part A …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
High transparent and homogeneous poly (vinylidene fluoride)(PVdF)/silica hybrids were
obtained by using an in‐situ interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) method. The …

Atypical gelation in gelatin solutions probed by ultra-fast calorimetry

N Guigo, N Sbirrazzuoli, S Vyazovkin - Soft Matter, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper describes the first application of ultrafast scanning calorimetry to the process of
gelation in concentrated (40 wt%) aqueous gelatin solutions. It demonstrates that the regular …

Multiporous polymeric materials from thermoreversible poly (vinylidene fluoride) gels

D Dasgupta, AK Nandi - Macromolecules, 2005 - ACS Publications
Thermoreversible gels of poly (vinylidene fluoride)(PVF2) in organic diesters [(CH2)
n−(COOEt) 2] were dried by replacing the high boiling diesters with a guest solvent …

Thermoreversible gelation of polybenzimidazole in phosphoric acid

A Sannigrahi, D Arunbabu… - Macromolecular rapid …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We report a study of thermoreversible gelation of polybenzimidazole (PBI) in phosphoric
acid (PA). The PBI gel in PA exhibits fibrillar network morphology and reversible first order …

Conducting hydrogel of a naphthalenetetracarboxylic dianhydride derivative and polyaniline: different electronic properties in gel and xerogel states

P Chakraborty, S Das, S Mondal, AK Nandi - CrystEngComm, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
An aminoisophthalic acid derivative of naphthalenetetracarboxylic dianhydride (NDI) is
synthesized to produce a hydrogel via acid–base treatment. NDI is used to make co …

Influence of alkyl chain length on the gelation mechanism of thermoreversible gels of regioregular poly (3‐alkyl thiophenes) in xylene

S Malik, AK Nandi - Journal of applied polymer science, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The gelation rates of poly (3‐alkyl thiophenes)(P3AT) are strongly dependent on the
pendent alkyl chain length. Poly (3‐hexyl thiophene (P3HT) gels at higher isothermal …

Thermoreversible gelation of poly (vinylidene fluoride) in phthalates: the influence of aliphatic chain length of solvents

PJP Yadav, G Ghosh, B Maiti, VK Aswal… - The Journal of …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Thermoreversible gelation of poly (vinylidene fluoride)(PVDF) has been studied in a new
series of solvents (phthalates), for example, dimethyl phthalate (DMP), diethyl phthalate …

Incorporation of nylon-11 into poly (vinylidene fluoride) gel electrolytes membrane for high safety lithium-ion batteries

AK Dikshit - Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, 2024 - Springer
A novel polymer blend gel electrolyte was made based on two crystallizable polymers of
poly (vinylidene fluoride) and nylon-11 in dielectric aprotic organic solvent of propylene …