Bassil M. El-Zaatari

TL;DR: A critical overview of the current characterization techniques available to understand the relation between the molecular properties and the resulting performance and behavior of polymer networks, in the absence of added fillers, can be found in this paper.

TL;DR: It is shown that cross-linker reactivity represents an additional design parameter to tune stress relaxation rates in vitrimers and can mix different cross- linkers in a single material in order to further modulate the stress relaxation behavior.

TL;DR: In this paper, the composition of low-Tg n-butylacrylate-block-(acetoxyaceto)ethyl acrylate block polymers is investigated as a strategy to tune the properties of dynamically cross-linked vinylogous urethane vitrimers.

TL;DR: A visible-light (470 nm wavelength) sensitive Type II photoinitiator system is developed for bulk Cu(i)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition reactions in crosslinked networks allowing the formation of defect-free glassy networks which exhibit a narrow glass transition temperature.

TL;DR: The kinetic behaviour of the photo-induced copper(i) catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) reaction was studied in detail using real-time Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy on both a solvent-based monofunctional and a neat polymer network forming system, showing near first-order kinetics on copper and photoinitiator concentrations up to a threshold value in which the kinetics switch to zeroth-order.