Epoxy resins are used in various fields in a wide range of applications such as coatings,
adhesives, modeling compounds, impregnation materials, high-performance composites …

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been extensively used for the nanoscale
characterization of polymeric materials. The coupling of AFM with infrared spectroscope …

Hunger and chronic undernourishment impact over 800 million people, which translates to≈
10.7% of the world's population. While countries are increasingly making efforts to reduce …

Advances in technology now enable infrared and Raman vibrational spectroscopic imaging
with resolution on the molecular scale. A number of techniques have emerged that provide …

Epoxy-amine resins continue to find widespread use as the binders in protective and
decorative organic coatings, as the matrix in composite materials, and as adhesives. In …

The physical performance of an epoxy-based material is largely influenced by the formation
of heterogeneous nanostructures (HNSs) in the glassy three-dimensional epoxy network …

In recent decades several studies addressed the chemical consumption of primary
antioxidants in polyolefins, however a generally accepted spectroscopic method to …

Understanding interactions at the polymer/metal oxide interface is central to improving the
performance lifetime of corrosion resistant coatings, where network polymers commonly …

In this work, two types of rigid-flexible integrated epoxy resins, diglycidyl ether of eugenol-2-
mercaptoethanol (DGEEM) and diglycidyl ether of vanillic alcohol (DGEVA), which possess …

Pigmentation can exacerbate problematic water uptake into protective paints, leading to
detrimental effects such delamination, swelling and plasticization. Potential underlying …