This is a review of atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis as applied to the study of
molecular materials. The PDF method is a powerful approach to study short-and …

Being composed of alternating soft segments and hard segments, thermoplastic
polyurethane (TPU) always displays complicated thermal behaviors on the heating scans …

Flexible conductive materials have excellent stretchability and sensitivity, so they have great
development potential in motion detection, artificial electronic skin and other fields. Three …

There has been a strong increase in demand for lithium, so the extraction of lithium from
natural water resources has become a remarkable remedy to reduce the harmful …

Polyurethane foam (PUF) has the characteristics of light, loose and polyporous. These
characteristics make it play a great role in the adsorption of offshore oil spill. However, the …

The high content and regular distribution of hard segment (HS) are necessary to achieve
high‐performance thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), and the HS unit of TPU is generated …

Increasing the strength while not sacrificing the ductility of polymeric elastomers helps in
expanding the application range and this meanwhile improves the durability of the materials …

A series of multiblock polyurethane-ureas (PUU) based on polycaprolactone diol (PCL) with
a molecular mass of 530 or 2000 g/mol, as well as hard segments of different lengths and …

Good dispersion of nanosilica particles in waterborne polyurethane was obtained by mild
mechanical stirring when 0.1–0.5 wt.% nanosilica in aqueous dispersion was added. The …

The microstructure and macroscopic properties of thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs) are
significantly affected by their microphase separation. It is therefore of great interest to …