A review of smart electrospun fibers toward textiles

L Liu, W Xu, Y Ding, S Agarwal, A Greiner… - Composites …, 2020 - Elsevier
Electrospinning as a versatile technology has attracted a large amount of attention in the
past few decades due to the facile way to produce micro-and nano-scale fibers featuring …

Recent development of pH-responsive polymers for cancer nanomedicine

H Tang, W Zhao, J Yu, Y Li, C Zhao - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Cancer remains a leading cause of death worldwide with more than 10 million new cases
every year. Tumor-targeted nanomedicines have shown substantial improvements of the …

Photocatalytic ATRP depolymerization: temporal control at low ppm of catalyst concentration

K Parkatzidis, NP Truong… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A photocatalytic ATRP depolymerization is introduced that significantly suppresses the
reaction temperature from 170 to 100° C while enabling temporal regulation. In the presence …

Modulating polymerization thermodynamics of thiolactones through substituent and heteroatom incorporation

KA Stellmach, MKK Paul, M Xu, YL Su, L Fu… - ACS Macro …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A central challenge in the development of next-generation sustainable materials is to design
polymers that can easily revert back to their monomeric starting material through chemical …

Giving superabsorbent polymers a second life as pressure-sensitive adhesives

PT Chazovachii, MJ Somers, MT Robo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
An estimated 6.3 billion metric tons of post-consumer polymer waste has been produced,
with the majority (79%) in landfills or the environment. Recycling methods that utilize these …

Ring-opening polymerization of γ-lactones and copolymerization with other cyclic monomers

Q Song, C Pascouau, J Zhao, G Zhang… - Progress in Polymer …, 2020 - Elsevier
Triggered by raised environmental awareness and the rising requirements for sustainable
polymers such as degradable or recyclable polymers, studies on ring-opening (co) …

Core-shell beads made by composite liquid marble technology as a versatile microreactor for polymerase chain reaction

KR Sreejith, L Gorgannezhad, J Jin, CH Ooi, T Takei… - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Over the last three decades, the protocols and procedures of the DNA amplification
technique, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), have been optimized and well developed …

Photodegradation and biodegradation of poly (lactic) acid containing orotic acid as a nucleation agent

J Salač, J Šerá, M Jurča, V Verney, AA Marek… - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Orotic acid is a natural heterocyclic compound that acts as a nucleation agent in poly (lactic
acid)(PLA). PLA materials with increasing orotic acid content were prepared and …

Smart control of nitroxide-mediated polymerization initiators' reactivity by pH, complexation with metals, and chemical transformations

M Edeleva, G Audran, S Marque, E Bagryanskaya - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Because alkoxyamines are employed in a number of important applications, such as
nitroxide-mediated polymerization, radical chemistry, redox chemistry, and catalysis …

Initiators for Continuous Activator Regeneration (ICAR) Depolymerization

GR Jones, MN Antonopoulou, NP Truong… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Chemical recycling of polymers synthesized by atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP)
typically requires high temperatures (ie, 170° C) to operate effectively, not only consuming …