Progress in the mechanical enhancement of hydrogels: Fabrication strategies and underlying mechanisms

X Lin, X Zhao, C Xu, L Wang… - Journal of polymer …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels have become ideal materials in the nascent applications of tissue engineering,
soft robots, drug delivery, and so forth. However, compared with biological tissues, the …

Physical, mechanical, and thermal properties of natural fiber-reinforced epoxy composites for construction and automotive applications

RV Patel, A Yadav, J Winczek - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Due to its environmental acceptability, technological feasibility, and
economic viability, natural fiber-reinforced epoxy composite exhibits many potential …

Degradable polymeric bio (nano) materials and their biomedical applications: A comprehensive overview and recent updates

K Kuperkar, LI Atanase, A Bahadur, IC Crivei… - Polymers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Degradable polymers (both biomacromolecules and several synthetic polymers) for
biomedical applications have been promising very much in the recent past due to their low …

[HTML][HTML] Synergistic effect of novel hyperbranched polysiloxane and Ti3C2Tx MXene/MoS2 hybrid filler towards desirable mechanical and tribological performance of …

Z Chen, M Zhang, Z Guo, H Chen, H Yan, F Ren… - Composites Part B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Despite two-dimensional (2D) layered MoS 2 and newly emerging lamellar MXene
providing great potential in lubricity, the mechanical and tribological performance of their …

Green monomers for 3D printing: epoxy-methacrylate interpenetrating polymer networks as a versatile alternative for toughness enhancement in additive …

A Fantoni, J Ecker, M Ahmadi, T Koch… - ACS Sustainable …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Photopolymerization represents an environmentally friendly polymerization technique due to
the ability of solvent-free and room-temperature curing. However, industrially used resins …

Synergistically toughened epoxy resin based on modified-POSS triggered interpenetrating network

J Yang, Y Zhang, M Hao, J Zhi, X Qian - Polymer, 2023 - Elsevier
The toughening of epoxy resin has always been one of the key topics in the researches
about high-performance matrix used for advanced composites. Up to now, single-property …

Superior tough, highly wear durable and self-lubricating epoxy composite co-enhanced by soft and hard nanomaterials

Y Zhang, K Yang, R Liu, J Yao, H Yan - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite many efforts are being undertaken to design high tribo-performance epoxy
nanocomposite, it still remains a great challenge to comprehensively address the interface …

Robust vanillin-derived poly (thioether imidazoles) as both a latent curing and toughening agent for one-component epoxy resins

Y You, Z Wang, Q Chen, H Li, L Jin, K Ma… - ACS Macro …, 2023 - ACS Publications
One-component epoxy resins based on latent curing agents have garnered research
attention owing to their outstanding storage stability and excellent processability, while their …

Enhancement of Si3N4@ MoS2 core–shell structure on wear/corrosion resistance of epoxy resin/polyacrylate IPN composite coating

Q Lin, X Wang, M Cai, H Yan, Z Zhao, X Fan… - Applied Surface …, 2021 - Elsevier
To enhance the interfacial interaction between Si 3 N 4 and epoxy resin/polyacrylate
interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) and exert the synergistic effect between Si 3 N 4 and …

A review of the polymer for cryogenic application: methods, mechanisms and perspectives

D Chen, J Li, Y Yuan, C Gao, Y Cui, S Li, X Liu… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recently, the application of polymer-based composites at cryogenic conditions has become
a hot topic, especially in aerospace fields. At cryogenic temperature, the polymer becomes …