A significantly growing interest is to design a new strategy for development of bio-polyesters
from renewable resources due to limited fossil fuel reserves, rise of petrochemicals price …

The trend of using biopolymers in combination with synthetic polymers was increasing
rapidly from last two or three decades. Polysaccharide based biopolymers especially starch …

Polysaccharide chitin (CH) was modified by antimicrobial natural gum rosin as a
biocompatible agent within the thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) elastomer to form the …

Thermally responsive shape memory polymers have promising applications in many fields,
especially in biomedical areas. In this study, a simple method was purposed to prepare …

Polymer blends with self-healing capability when damaged have received increasing
interests and have been developing rapidly because of their many potential applications …

Despite tremendous advances in the preparation of smart materials, it remains a great
challenge to integrate shape memory and self-healing properties into one material system …

A kind of thermally-electrically responsive shape memory fibers made of polycaprolactone
(PCL) and thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) with electric heating and strain sensing …

Understanding the structure–property relationship of polyurethane (PU) binders is of critical
importance in the construction engineering applications. A series of rapid room temperature …

Dopamine-modified clay (D-clay) was successfully dispersed into polyether polyurethane
(PU) by solvent blending. It is found that the incorporation of D-clay into PU gives rise to …

A novel approach has been proposed to enhance the flame retardancy of polypropylene
(PP) by a flexible and highly efficient intumescent flame-retardant coating, avoiding the …