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Shaobing Zhou, Lin Wang, Xifeng Yang, HM Chen, G Yang, Tao Gong and WB Li
Polym. Chem., 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00519D, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00519D, Paper
A multi-stimuli sensitive shape memory poly(vinyl alcohol)-graft-polyurethane was synthesized. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR) confirmed the chemical structure of the material. The material exhibits...
Cheng Yixiang, Xiao Ma, Jiang Xiaoxiang, Shuwei Zhang, Xiaobo Huang and Chengjian Zhu
Polym. Chem., 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00528C, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00528C, Paper
Three novel polymers with bent-core V-shape chain backbone, P1, P2, and P3, were synthesized by Pd-catalyzed Sonogashira coupling reaction of dibromo substituted B,O-chelated azadipyrromethene (M-1) with 2,5-diethynyl-3,4-dimethylthiophene (M-2), 3,6-diethynyl-9-octadecyl-9H-carbazole (M-3),...
Anitha Ethirajan, Linny Baeten, Matthias Conradi, Kayte Ranieri, Bert Conings, Hans-Gerd Boyen and Thomas Junkers
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00427A, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00427A, Paper
A facile postmodification strategy for the surface functionalization of nanoparticles is presented based on [2 + 2] photoconjugation with particles made from miniemulsion polymerization of divinylbenzene.
Mischa Zelzer and Andreas Heise
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00431G, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00431G, Paper
An HPLC method is presented to determine how the different reactivities of two N-carboxy anhydrides affect the composition of the copolymer.
Mohamad-Ali Tehfe, Frédéric Dumur, Bernadette Graff, Fabrice Morlet-Savary, Didier Gigmes, Jean-Pierre Fouassier and Jacques Lalevée
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00372H, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00372H, Paper
New high performance dyes for polymerization upon blue light irradiation.
Ryo Tanaka, Yuushou Nakayama and Takeshi Shiono
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00400G, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00400G, Paper
Synthesis of a norbornene–propylene–methyl methacrylate (MMA) block terpolymer was achieved using a fluorenylamide-ligated titanium complex for the first time.
Kai-Steffen Krannig, Jin Huang, Andreas Heise and Helmut Schlaad
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00428G, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00428G, Paper
Initiator/catalyst-free addition of thiols to alkyne-containing polypeptides enables the direct synthesis of fluorescent and highly functionalized glycopolypeptides.
Shuangshuang Zhang, Tongfei Shi, Jichun You and Yongjin Li
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00290J, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00290J, Paper
Three regimes were divided to describe the composition dependence of phase behaviors in PMMA/SAN blend ultrathin films upon solvent annealing.
Paola Astolfi, Lucedio Greci, Pierluigi Stipa, Corrado Rizzoli, Cedric Ysacco, Marion Rollet, Laurent Autissier, Antoine Tardy, Yohann Guillaneuf and Didier Gigmes
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00368J, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00368J, Paper
Indolinic nitroxides derived from DPAIO nitroxide were designed to improve the bulk polymerization of methacrylate derivatives.
Shengyi Dong, Lingyan Gao, Jinying Li, Donghua Xu and Qizhong Zhou
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00494E, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00494E, Paper
By incorporating a photochromophore, an azobenzene group, into a low molecular weight heteroditopic AB-type monomer, photo-responsive linear and cross-linked supramolecular polymers were prepared.
Cai-Li Huang, Man-Jie He, Meng Huo, Lan Du, Cong Zhan, Cheng-Jie Fan, Ke-Ke Yang, In-Joo Chin and Yu-Zhong Wang
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00461A, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00461A, Paper
A facile method to develop electro-active shape memory polymer composites with good location- and process-controlled shape recovery performance is proposed.
Alexander A. Steinschulte, Bjoern Schulte, Natascha Drude, Michael Erberich, Christian Herbert, Jun Okuda, Martin Möller and Felix A. Plamper
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00444A, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00444A, Paper
No need for cleavage: arm number and arm lengths obtained by mass spectrometry.
Guoyan Zhang, Jibin Zhang and Bai Yang
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00458A, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00458A, Paper
Polymerizable ZnS nanoparticles (NPs) were fabricated in N,N′-dimethylacrylamide (DMAA) via a novel facile and effective strategy resulting in a series of transparent bulk nanocomposites based on such polymerizable ZnS NPs.
Xiuyu Jiang, Guolin Lu, Chun Feng, Yongjun Li and Xiaoyu Huang
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00415E, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00415E, Paper
Poly(acrylic acid)-g-poly(N-vinylcaprolactam), a novel “smart” dual-stimuli responsive double hydrophilic graft copolymer, responds not only to a single stimulus, viz. pH and temperature, but also to the simultaneous presence of pH and thermo dual stimuli.
Chunchen Liu, Wanzhu Cai, Xing Guan, Chunhui Duan, Qifan Xue, Lei Ying, Fei Huang and Yong Cao
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00430A, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00430A, Paper
A series of donor–acceptor copolymers based on anthracene derivatives were synthesized and their potential applications for bulk heterojunction-type polymer solar cells were explored.
Kim K. Oehlenschlaeger, Nathalie K. Guimard, Josef Brandt, Jan Mueller, Ching Yeh Lin, Stefan Hilf, Albena Lederer, Michelle L Coote, Friedrich Schmidt and Christopher Barner-Kowollik
Polym. Chem., 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00476G, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00476G, Paper
A new dithioester possessing a cyano Z-group (cyano dtihioester (CDTE)) has been synthesized via a 2-step, one-pot reaction. The cyano-substituted dithioester has been found to undergo ultra fast reversible hetero-Diels-Alder...
Xiao-Bing Lu, Wei-Min Ren, Meng-Wei Liang and Yue-Chao Xu
Polym. Chem., 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00554B, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00554B, Paper
Trivalent Cobalt-based catalyst systems have proven to be efficient for coupling of CO2 with epoxides to afford the corresponding polycarbonates in perfectly alternating nature. Particularly, the single-component Co(III)-Salen complexes with...
Targeted tumor CT imaging using folic acid-modified PEGylated dendrimer-entrapped gold nanoparticles
Xiangyang Shi, Chen Peng, Jinbao Qin, Benqing Zhou, Qian Chen, Mingwu Shen, meifang Zhu and Xinwu Lu
Polym. Chem., 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00521F, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00521F, Paper
Development of multifunctional nanoprobes with a targeting capability for efficient molecular imaging of tumors still remains a great challenge. Herein, we report the synthesis and characterization of folic acid (FA)-modified...
Patricia Calvo, José Luis Barrio-Manso, Félix Clemente García, Jesús Luis Pablos, Tomas Torroba and José M García
Polym. Chem., 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00503H, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00503H, Paper
This work describes the preparation of luminescent, high-performance aromatic polyamides. The fluorescent behaviour was achieved by preparing a diacid monomer containing a fluorescent dipicolinic acid derivative and polymerising it with...
Jacques Lalevée
Polym. Chem., 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00536D, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00536D, Paper
The search for new dyes in photoinitiating systems is the subject of great interests for polymer synthesis upon soft conditions (for green chemistry applications, sunlight induced polymerization, operator safety ...)....
Ganna Gryn'ova, Ching Yeh Lin and Michelle L. Coote
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00534H, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00534H, Paper
High-level quantum-chemical calculations and ab initio PREDICI modelling reveal which elementary side-reactions disrupt nitroxide mediated polymerization and how to minimise their occurrence in various systems.
An Lv, Xin-Xing Deng, Lei Li, Zi-Long Li, Yao-Zong Wang, Fu-Sheng Du and Zi-Chen Li
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00382E, Communication
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00382E, Communication
A facile method for sequence defined multi-block copolymers consisting of PEG and poly(ester–amide) segments via multicomponent polymerization is reported.
Chun Zhang, Lian-Hui Peng, Buyi Li, Ying Liu, Peng-Cheng Zhu, Zhen Wang, Deng-Huang Zhan, Bien Tan, Xiang-Liang Yang and Hui-Bi Xu
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00499F, Communication
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00499F, Communication
Triptycene expands the pore size and surface area of a hexaphenylbenzene polymer.
Jessica J. Cash, Matthew C. Davis, Michael D. Ford, Thomas J. Groshens, Andrew J. Guenthner, Benjamin G. Harvey, Kevin R. Lamison, Joseph M. Mabry, Heather A. Meylemans, Josiah T. Reams and Christopher M. Sahagun
Polym. Chem., 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00438D, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00438D, Paper
Cyanate esters made from the natural product resveratrol gave thermosetting materials with Tg > 300 °C.
Qian Wang, Yong Chen and Yu Liu
Polym. Chem., 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00339F, Communication
DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00339F, Communication
A novel supramolecular ternary polymer mediated by macrocyclic molecules cucurbit[8]uril (CB[8]) and cyclodextrin was successfully constructed, based on the CB[8]-stabilized charge-transfer (CT) interaction and cyclodextrin-adamantane host-guest interaction. Herein, we synthesized...
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