Hongyao Xu

TL;DR: In this article, the performance of silkworm and spider dragline fibers under stretching is compared based on a combined structural and mechanical analysis, and the molecular origin of the strain-hardening of spider silk filaments is addressed in comparison to rubber and Kevlar.

TL;DR: In this article, the soluble poly(methyl methacrylate-co-octavinyl-polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane) (PMMA-POSS) hybrid nanocomposites with improved Tg and high thermal stability were synthesized by common free radical polymerization and characterized using FTIR, high-resolution 1H NMR, 29Si nMR, GPC, DSC, and TGA.

TL;DR: In this article, a 3D structural polyaniline-graphene bulk hybrid material was proposed for high performance supercapacitor electrodes, in which a functional molecule, sulfonated triazine (ST), was introduced and adsorbed on graphene sheets via hydrogen bonding and ππ stacking interactions.

TL;DR: In this article, three bifunctional comonomers were synthesized to prepare poly(acrylonitrile-co-β-methylhydrogen itaconate) [P(co-MHI)], poly(acetylacetyl-carboxylate-3-butenoic acid methyl ester] [P (co-ACBM)] which can be used as carbon fiber precursor, and the effect of comonomer structure on the stabilization of bipolymers were studied by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, differential

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the recent synthetic developments of squaraine derivatives as a class of functional near infrared absorbing optic materials and their application in the areas of antiaggregation, sensor, solar cell, nonlinear optics and self-assembly functional materials based on their own work during the recent years.