Diene Rubbers as High Performance and Highly Functional Materials.

A New Family of Styrene/Diene Rubbers

Functionalized and Electrospun Polymeric Materials as High-Performance Membranes for Direct Methanol Fuel Cell: A Review

Proton exchange membranes (PEM) for a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) have main drawbacks which are methanol permeability, reduced proton conductivity and the cost of the membrane. This paper reviews different polymeric materials such as fluorinated, non-fluorinated, acid-base complex, and composite membranes for DMFC. Currently, nonfluorinated membranes gain a lot of atte...

Uranium(IV) amido-borohydrides as highly active diene polymerisation catalysts.

The synthesis and structural characterisation of the uranium(IV) amido-borohydrides (N'')2U{κ(2)-N(SiMe3)SiMe2CH2BBN-H} and U{κ(2)-N(SiMe3)SiMe2CH2BBN-H}2, and their activity as pre-catalysts for the polymerisation of isoprene are described.

Biosynthetic Polymers as Functional Materials

The synthesis of functional polymers encoded with biomolecules has been an extensive area of research for decades. As such, a diverse toolbox of polymerization techniques and bioconjugation methods has been developed. The greatest impact of this work has been in biomedicine and biotechnology, where fully synthetic and naturally derived biomolecules are used cooperatively. Despite significant im...

Metal- and Polymer-Matrix Composites: Functional Lightweight Materials for High-Performance Structures

The special topic ‘‘Metaland Polymer-Matrix Composites’’ is intended to capture the state of the art in the research and practice of functional composites. The current set of articles related to metal-matrix composites includes reviews on functionalities such as self-healing, self-lubricating, and selfcleaning capabilities; research results on a variety of aluminum-matrix composites; and invest...