By identifying polymer side chain mobility and the presence of acidic environments as major factors accelerating oxidation, ...

Cai’s team took a different approach by redesigning the polymer strands themselves. Instead of linear strands, their structure mimics a bottlebrush, with flexible side chains radiating out from ...

“Impact of Polymer Side Chain Modification on OPV Morphology and Performance”, V. Savikhin, M. Babics, M. Neophytou, S. Liu, S.D. Oosterhout, H. Yan, X. Gu, P.M ...

Achieving a sustainable society requires the development of advanced degradable plastics, or polymers, which are molecules composed of long chains of repeating units. The goal of a resource ...

Researchers have proposed using polymer membranes modified with copper, zinc, and chromium metal ions for water purification. These polymers were used for the first time in water purification via ...

Oligo(EG) (OEG), which has a shorter polymer main chain, is used for the same reason ... relevant to more than one section. Other than the side groups, the initiating and terminating reagents ...

The results of the WAXD and thin-film WAXD indicated that the alternating copolymer possessed a smectic liquid-crystalline phase at ambient temperature with a couple of fluoroalkyl side chains ...