Polycaprolactone (PCL) has been extensively applied on tissue engineering because of its
low‐melting temperature, good processability, biodegradability, biocompatibility, mechanical …

Future manufacturing of pharmaceuticals will involve innovative use of polymeric excipients.
Hot melt extrusion (HME) is an already established manufacturing technique and several …

Current progress in understanding the dynamics of associating polymers is reviewed, with
examples including both ionic and hydrogen bonding associations. A particular emphasis is …

We investigate the nonlinear shear and uniaxial extensional rheology of entangled
polystyrene (PS) melts and solutions having the same number Z of entanglements, hence …

We provide a Perspective on recent findings in extensional rheology for polymer melts and
solutions with different macromolecular architectures. For linear polymer systems, we focus …

Polybenzimidazole (PBI) membranes have been prepared with different molecular weights.
The water and acid swelling, mechanical strength, gas permeability and proton conductivity …

Transient and steady elongational viscosity has been measured for two narrow molar mass
distribution polystyrene melts of molar masses 200 000 and 390 000 by means of a filament …

We compare viscoelastic properties of several polystyrene solutions and melts with the
same number of entanglements. It is demonstrated that the modulus and time can be shifted …

We use a new extensional rheology test fixture that has been developed for conventional
torsional rheometers to measure the transient extensional stress growth in a number of …

In the melt state at equilibrium, entangled nonconcatenated ring macromolecules adapt
more compact conformations compared to their linear analogs and do not form an …