[HTML][HTML] An overview of tailoring strain delocalization for strength-ductility synergy

H Wu, G Fan - Progress in Materials Science, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we systematically proposed the strategy of tailoring strain delocalization to
evade long-standing strength-ductility trade-off dilemma. The scientific contribution is to …

Polymer nanocomposite dielectrics: understanding the matrix/particle interface

S Wang, Z Luo, J Liang, J Hu, N Jiang, J He, Q Li - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polymer nanocomposite dielectrics possess exceptional electric properties that are absent
in the pristine dielectric polymers. The matrix/particle interface in polymer nanocomposite …

Interphase in polymer nanocomposites

J Huang, J Zhou, M Liu - JACS Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
The lightweight and high-strength functional nanocomposites are important in many
practical applications. Natural biomaterials with excellent mechanical properties provide …

Crystallization in thin films of polymer glasses: The role of free surfaces, solid interfaces and their competition

Y Yang, H Tian, S Napolitano, B Zuo - Progress in Polymer Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Polymer coatings of nanometric thickness are about to enter in everyday life as part of a
wide range of applications such as protective layers, stimuli-responsive membranes or as …

Effect of local chain conformation in adsorbed nanolayers on confined polymer molecular mobility

B Zuo, H Zhou, MJB Davis, X Wang, RD Priestley - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
Interfaces play an important role in modifying the dynamics of polymers confined to the
nanoscale. We demonstrate that the distance over which an interface suppresses molecular …

An improved neural network model for predicting the remaining useful life of proton exchange membrane fuel cells

X Sun, M Xie, J Fu, F Zhou, J Liu - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
In order to achieve a fast and accurate prediction for remaining useful life (RUL) of proton
exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), an improved degradation model named RCLMA …

Relaxation behavior of polymer thin films: Effects of free surface, buried interface, and geometrical confinement

B Li, S Zhang, JS Andre, Z Chen - Progress in Polymer Science, 2021 - Elsevier
The glass transition temperature (T g) of polymer thin films, one of the most important
parameters to characterize the relaxation behavior of polymer chains in a thin film, has been …

Direct measurement of glass transition temperature in exposed and buried adsorbed polymer nanolayers

MJ Burroughs, S Napolitano, D Cangialosi… - …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We employ a fluorescence bilayer method to directly measure the glass transition
temperature (T g) of the irreversibly adsorbed layer of polystyrene (PS) buried in bulk films …

Untangling the effects of chain rigidity on the structure and dynamics of strongly adsorbed polymer melts

JMY Carrillo, S Cheng, R Kumar, M Goswami… - …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We present a detailed analysis of coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of
semiflexible polymer melts in contact with a strongly adsorbing substrate. We have …

Irreversible Adsorption Erases the Free Surface Effect on the Tg of Supported Films of Poly(4-tert-butylstyrene)

NG Perez-de-Eulate, M Sferrazza, D Cangialosi… - ACS macro …, 2017 - ACS Publications
When cooled at constant rate, a 25 nm thin film of poly (4-tert-butylstyrene) vitrifies 50 K
lower than in bulk. This record sets the largest depression in thermal glass transition …