Recycling mixed polyolefin plastics is a significant challenge due to the limitations in sorting
and degraded mechanical properties of blends. Nonreactive compatibilization by adding a …

The ability of materials to self-heal from mechanical and thermally induced damage is
explored in this paper and has significance in the field of fracture and fatigue. The history …

A series of isotactic polypropylene (i PP) and polyethylene (PE) diblock, tetrablock, and
hexablock copolymers (BCPs) were synthesized with tunable molecular weights using a …

The fracture toughness (characterized by the critical energy release rate Gc) of interfaces
between polystyrene (PS) and poly (2-vinylpyridine)(PVP) reinforced with poly (styrene-6-2 …

Polymer materials have been widely used in industrial, agricultural, engineering, medical,
electronic, and biological fields because of their excellent and diverse properties (eg …

This paper provides an overview of directed self-assembly (DSA) options that exhibit
potential for enabling extensible high-volume patterning of nanoelectronics devices. It …

Polymer surfaces and interfaces have many technological applications. In the present article
we review some recent experiments conducted on model systems with the aim of …

Thin layers of polystyrene (PS)-poly (methyl methacrylate)(PMMA) diblock copolymers were
placed at the interface between PS and PMMA homopolymers, and the samples were joined …

Star block copolymers (s-BCPs), comprised of multiple linear diblock copolymers joined at a
central point, are shown to segregate to the interface between two immiscible …

We use self-consistent mean field methods and analytical theory to determine the behavior
of AB copolymers at the interface between two incompatible homopolymers, A and B. We …