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Showing papers in "Progress in Polymer Science in 2003"


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TL;DR: A review of the academic and industrial aspects of the preparation, characterization, materials properties, crystallization behavior, melt rheology, and processing of polymer/layered silicate nanocomposites is given in this article.

6,343 citations


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TL;DR: A general overview of the preparation, characterization and theories of block copolymer micellar systems is presented in this paper, with examples of micelle formation in aqueous and organic medium are given for di-and triblock copolymers, as well as for more complex architectures.

1,856 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, a review of the chemical aspects of the incorporation of inorganic building blocks such as silica networks, porous materials, metals, etc. into an organic polymeric matrix is presented.

1,100 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, a general overview of several aspects of the dissolution of amorphous polymers is provided, including experimentally observed dissolution phenomena and mechanisms reported to this date, solubility behavior of polymers and their solvents, models used to interpret and understand polymer dissolution, and techniques used to characterize the dissolution process.

885 citations


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TL;DR: A survey of the available information on the environmental fate of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and PVA-based materials can be found in this paper, where the biochemistry and microbial physiology of PVA biodegradation and on the influence of environmental conditions are discussed along with the biodegrading processes of other water-soluble materials.

744 citations


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TL;DR: The synthesis and properties of carbazole-containing polymers are reviewed with 451 references in this paper, including polymers with pendant carbazolyl groups, polymers containing electronically isolated carbonazole moieties in the main chain, polymer with π-conjugated main chain and polymers as well as carbazoleside-containing molecular glasses.

702 citations


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TL;DR: A review of surface modification techniques for polymers with graft chains can be found in this paper, focusing on grafting methods as well as the structure and function of grafted surfaces.

622 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the vibrational heat capacity of crystal and glass data was used for analysis of macromolecules in the semicrystalline state and the transitions of the rigid-amorphous phase and the major reversible processes involving latent heats.

572 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, five principal types of generic flame retardant systems for inclusion in polypropylene fibres have been identified as phosphorus-containing, halogen-containing and silicon-containing.

515 citations


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TL;DR: The role of crystal plasticity in achieving high toughness is addressed in this article, where two possibilities of the modification of crystal thickness are described: increase in the crystal thickness and a reduction in the number of mobile dislocations in polymer crystals, and two examples of efficient toughening in multicomponent polypropylene systems connected with cavitation are described.

479 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a general coverage of various scientific aspects of the WSP-metal ion interactions in aqueous solution and their applications, including fundamental aspects on synthesis of water-soluble polymers.

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TL;DR: The authors review progress from the past few years in research into the influence of a boundary in polymer blends, concentrating largely on the wetting transition, and the growth of wetting layers, where they pay particular attention to blends in which hydrodynamic flow plays a dominant role.

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TL;DR: In this paper, generalized approaches for the preparation of polyaniline materials are reviewed, focusing on features that determine properties of the final composites/blends, and two distinct groups of synthetic methods based on aniline polymerization either (1) in the presence of or inside a matrix polymer or (2) the blending of a previously prepared PANI with a matrix polymers.

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TL;DR: The state-of-the-art in the field of molecular design, synthesis, phase behavior and photooptical properties of photochromic liquid crystalline (LC) side chain polymers, their blends with chiral and photo-chromic low-molar-mass dopants, hydrogen-bonded photo chromic LC polymer systems, as well as photoresponsive LC dendrimers, is reviewed in this paper.

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TL;DR: A review of recent studies of high energy radiation grafting of fluoropolymers and of the analytical methods available to characterize the grafts can be found in this article, where the authors present a review of their work.

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TL;DR: In this article, a review of various ways of preparation of liquid crystal/polymer blends and composites leading to their required applications is presented. But the most important features of polymers which can be used as components of blends or composites with liquid crystals include: their film formation ability, high transparency, amorphicity, inertness in relation to a liquid crystal, good miscibility with liquid state and immiscibility in a solid state.

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TL;DR: An overview on recent developments of oxidative polymerizations of phenols, particularly focusing on the coupling selectivity, can be found in this article, where three reaction mechanisms are discussed: coupling of free phenoxy radicals, coupling of the phenoxonium cation coordinated to catalyst complexes, and coupling through the phenoxide cation.

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TL;DR: In this article, a review summarizes recent advances in the design and synthesis of complex polymers with (meth)acrylic acid segments using various living and controlled polymerization techniques.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the main theoretical concepts of the glass transition in polymers, including mode coupling theory (MCT), entropy theory, free-volume theory, the idea of a growing length describing the size of cooperative regions, etc.

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Wenke Zhang1, Xi Zhang1
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of side groups and tacticity of polymers on single-chain elasticity is discussed. And the relation between the force pattern and the adsorptive conformation and strength is discussed, and the effects of inter-and intra-and inter-molecular suprastructure on polymers are discussed.

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TL;DR: A review of polymer-assisted fabrication of nanomaterials with emphasis on ordered polymeric nanostructures is presented in this paper, where the phase behavior of block co-polymers in water and the use of templates to form ordered nanostructure are reviewed in detail.

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TL;DR: In this article, a detailed analysis of the various factors that contribute to increase or decrease the growth rate of spherulites is reported and supported by several examples, mainly with regard to miscibility of the components.

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TL;DR: In this article, the synthesis and properties of nanostructural polymers with different macromolecular architectures are reviewed. Special emphasis is placed on hyperbranched polymers, rod-like macromolescules and polymer brushes.

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TL;DR: In this article, the solid-state supramolecular organization of block copolymers containing one conjugated block and one non-conjugated block is elucidated with a joint experimental and theoretical approach, which combines atomic force microscopy (AFM) measurements on thin polymer deposits, and molecular modeling, which allows one to derive the models for chain packing that are most likely to explain the AFM observations.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the effect of physical treatments such as sub-Tg annealing, thermal quenching, and CO2 pressure conditioning on gas sorption and permeation of physically treated glassy polymeric membranes.

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TL;DR: A review of the past and recent developments in living anionic polymerization of alkyl (meth)acrylates using different initiating systems and in the presence of various additives/ligands in conjunction with classical anionic initiator is presented in this paper.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the structures of columnar mesophases that depend on the presence of either N-H⋯O, or H-O-Bonds (subsumed under the term ‘N|H|O-bonds') are reviewed.

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TL;DR: In this article, a review of aqueous ring opening metathesis polymerization, alkyne, α-olefin and diene polymerization is presented in terms of catalytic activity and polymer characteristics.

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TL;DR: Recent experiments that systematically characterize the gel affinity as a function of adsorbing monomer concentration, solution salt concentration, and cross-linker concentration, on both sides of the phase transition are summarized.

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TL;DR: The most common elasticity experiment for many decades involved mechanically blending a reinforcing filler such as carbon black into natural rubber, cross-linking the elastomer with sulfur, and then characterizing its network structure by stress-strain measurements in simple extension, or by extents of equilibrium swelling as discussed by the authors.