Liquid-crystalline polymers: molecular engineering, hierarchical structures, and applications

W Wei, H Xiong - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
Liquid-crystalline polymers (LCPs) are a unique class of soft materials that combine liquid
crystal and polymer characteristics. This perspective highlights recent advances of LCPs on …

Single unit monomer insertion: a versatile platform for molecular engineering through radical addition reactions and polymerization

J Xu - Macromolecules, 2019 - ACS Publications
Single unit monomer insertion (SUMI) is an emerging technology for precise polymer
synthesis through a radical addition reaction mechanism with monomer additions occurring …

Discrete and stereospecific oligomers prepared by sequential and alternating single unit monomer insertion

Z Huang, BB Noble, N Corrigan, Y Chu… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Natural biopolymers, such as DNA and proteins, have uniform microstructures with defined
molecular weight, precise monomer sequence, and stereoregularity along the polymer main …

Recommendation for accurate experimental determination of reactivity ratios in chain copolymerization

NA Lynd, RC Ferrier Jr, BS Beckingham - Macromolecules, 2019 - ACS Publications
A set of copolymerization data at prescribed reactivity ratios was numerically generated and
then fit using common methods of data analysis including the copolymer equation, Fineman …

The poly (propylene oxide-co-ethylene oxide) gradient is controlled by the polymerization method: determination of reactivity ratios by direct comparison of different …

J Blankenburg, E Kersten, K Maciol, M Wagner… - Polymer …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
An investigation of the highly relevant copolymerization of ethylene oxide (EO) and
propylene oxide (PO) by in situ1H NMR spectroscopy shows striking differences in the …

Upscaling single unit monomer insertion to synthesize discrete oligomers

Z Huang, N Corrigan, S Lin, C Boyer… - Journal of Polymer …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
As one of the emerging techniques for preparing discrete oligomers, the photo‐RAFT single
unit monomer insertion (SUMI) process has shown its uniqueness and superiority in the …

Recent advances in polyalkylene glycol base oil

Z Liu, W Xue, J Shi, S Han, J Yan - Research on Chemical Intermediates, 2024 - Springer
Polyethers are a class of base oils with good solubility, thermal stability, shear resistance
and lubricity and are widely used in chemical, electronic, mechanical and material fields …

Robust compound elastomers of integrated polymer cathode and electrolyte for high-performance all-solid-state lithium battery

W Hu, D You, W Wei, H Xiong - Journal of Power Sources, 2023 - Elsevier
A novel type of all-solid-state lithium-organic batteries based on redox active
multicomponent polyethers comprising stable nitroxide radicals, ethylene oxide groups and …

Chiral photonic liquid crystalline polyethers with widely tunable helical superstructures

MA Farooq, W Wei, H Xiong - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
Liquid crystalline polymers with tunable structures on the scale of visible wavelength are
important in optical technology due to their enhanced mechanical stability, processability …

In-situ NMR measurement of reactivity ratios for copolymerization of methyl methacrylate and diallyl dimethylammonium chloride

J Feng, OO Oyeneye, WZ Xu… - Industrial & Engineering …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The present work examines an in-situ NMR technique for the copolymerization of methyl
methacrylate (MMA) and diallyl dimethylammonium chloride (DADMAC). The copolymer …