Stephen J. Harley

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that moisture is able to penetrate the material over a range of temperatures and humidities and quantitatively assesses how water vapor diffuses and ad/absorbs into polymeric materials that are traditionally considered hydrophobic.

TL;DR: Microscopy, scattering, spectroscopic, thermal, and dielectric techniques show that the covalent inclusion of the cross-linking particles restricts microphase separation, inhibits the formation of hard-block domains, and decelerates the motional dynamics of the polyurethane backbone.

TL;DR: In this article, bromine oxidation of porous silicon nanoparticles followed by reaction with n-butyllithium was shown to be stable in air and water indefinitely, and a combination of infrared, ultraviolet/visible, and photoluminescence demonstrated the presence of small crystalline silicon particles and saturated hydrocarbon ligands, while solid and liquid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopies established that butyl ligands are localized on the nanocrystal surface.

TL;DR: The exchange rates of water ligated to Co(II) atoms in two polyoxotungstate sandwich molecules using the (17)O-NMR-based Swift-Connick method are reported and the molecules are clearly stable and monospecific in slightly acidic solutions, but dissociate in strongly acidic solutions.

TL;DR: Water uptake in silica-filled and unfilled poly(dimethylsiloxane) networks is investigated; however, the model is versatile enough to be used with a wide range of materials and vapors.