Impacts of polystyrene molecular weight and modification to the repeat unit structure on the glass transition− nanoconfinement effect and the cooperativity length scale

CJ Ellison, MK Mundra, JM Torkelson - Macromolecules, 2005 - ACS Publications
The effect of nanoconfinement on the glass transition temperature (T g) of supported
polystyrene (PS) films is investigated over a broad molecular weight (MW) range of 5000− 3 …

Dispersions of nanosilica in biocompatible copolymers

G Lazzara, S Milioto - Polymer degradation and stability, 2010 - Elsevier
Dispersions of nanosilica in matrices of biocompatible copolymers were prepared by melt
blending. Copolymers with variable molecular size at fixed hydrophilic/hydrophobic ratio …

Temperature-responsive nanospheres with bicontinuous internal structures from a semicrystalline amphiphilic block copolymer

BE McKenzie, F Nudelman, PHH Bomans… - Journal of the …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Internally structured self-assembled nanospheres, cubosomes, are formed from a
semicrystalline block copolymer, poly (ethylene oxide)-block-poly (octadecyl …

Phase transitions and relaxation processes in ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers probed by fluorescence spectroscopy

SB Yamaki, EA Prado, TDZ Atvars - European Polymer Journal, 2002 - Elsevier
The steady-state fluorescence of pyrene and anthracene are used to investigate the
relaxation processes of several random ethylene-co-vinyl acetate copolymers, EVA, with …

A Sensitive Concentration‐and Polarity‐Dependent Pyrene‐Derived Vibrationally Resolved Fluorescence Probe for The Polymer Interdiffusion Study

R Mo, F Zhang, X Sheng… - Macromolecular Rapid …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The vibrationally resolved pyrene fluorescence probe method is once popular but now
languished, because the vibrationally resolved patterns of pyrene with limited sensitivity and …

Static and Dynamic Fluorescence of Pyrene as Probes of Site Polarity and Morphology in Ethylene-co-(Vinyl Acetate) (Eva) Films

EA Prado, SB Yamaki, TDZ Atvars… - The Journal of …, 2000 - ACS Publications
Static and dynamic fluorescence of pyrene has been used to study the polarity of
microenvironments of ethylene-co-(vinyl acetate) copolymers of varying compositions. The …

Kinetic study of epoxy curing in the glass fiber/epoxy interface using dansyl fluorescence

D Olmos, AJ Aznar, J Baselga… - Journal of colloid and …, 2003 - Elsevier
The fluorescence response of the dansyl chromophore has been used to study the kinetic of
epoxy curing processes. With this new method, comparison between the curing at the …

Study of secondary relaxations of poly (ethylene terephthalate) by photoluminescence technique

T Corrales, C Peinado, P Bosch, F Catalina - Polymer, 2004 - Elsevier
The α and β relaxation processes in two types of poly (ethylene terephthalate) with different
degrees of crystallinity were studied by means of three methods, differential scanning …

Amorphous deformation in high-and low-density polyethylene probed by aggregation-induced emission

Y Momonoi, K Nitta, Y Hiejima - Polymer, 2025 - Elsevier
Perylene was doped into high-and low-density polyethylene (HDPE and LDPE, respectively)
as an aggregation-induced emission (AIE) dye. Emission spectra were monitored in situ …

Observation of strong electron-phonon interaction in polymeric diluted organic semiconductor

T Sharma, NK Tailor, N Choudhury, D Kumar, SK Saini… - Chemical Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
Incorporating organic semiconductors in insulating polymer films, creating the so‐called
diluted organic semiconductors, has been successfully used in different optoelectronic …