A rapid and cost-effective lithographic method, polymer blend lithography (PBL), is reported to produce patterned self-assembled monolayers (SAM) on solid substrates featuring two or three different chemical functionalities. For the pattern generation we use the phase separation of two immiscible polymers in a blend solution during a spin-coating process. By controlling the spin-coating paramet...

In the present study, the permeabilities of CO2 and CH4 in terms of ideal and actual CO2/CH4 selectivity were investigated through the synthesized membranes of poly (ether-block-amide) (Pebax 1657) accompanied with poly (ethylene glycol) (PEG 400) and NH2-MIL125 nanoparticles. NH2-MIL125 nanofillers were added to the blend of PEG...

A binary blend of polycaprolactone and starch in 70:30 weight ratio (known under the tradename “Envar”) was blended in various weight ratios with organosolv lignin (L) and organosolv lignin butyrate (LB) by solvent casting and melt blending. The thermal transitions observed by DSC revealed behavior resembling that of native polycaprolactone (PCL). Depression in melting temperatures obtained by ...

Abstract. Flexible free standing polymer electrolyte films have been successfully prepared using a blend of poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) (PVDF-HFP) and poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) doped with lithium perchlorate (LiClO4). The conductivity of the film was influenced by salt concentration and the degree of crystallinity. An optimum room temperature conductivity obtained was 2.10...

Herein, we report tailor-made properties by dispersing nanostructuredmaterials in a co-continuous polymer blend (PVDF/ABS) that is capable of shielding electromagnetic (EM) radiation. To accomplish this, lossymaterials were employed likemulti-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs), and barium titanate (BT), (which exhibit relaxation losses in themicrowave frequency domain) and ferrites (like Fe3O4). T...

A novel photoactive polymer with two different molecular weights is reported, based on a new building block: thieno[3,2-b][1]benzothiophene isoindigo. Due to the improved crystallinity, optimal blend morphology, and higher charge mobility, solar-cell devices of the high-molecular-weight polymer exhibit a superior performance, affording efficiencies of 9.1% without the need for additives, anneal...

We describe a new dynamic Monte Carlo model to simulate the operation of a polymer-blend solar cell; this model provides major improvements with respect to the one we developed earlier [J. Phys. Chem. B 114, 36 (2010)] by incorporating the Poisson equation and a charge thermoactivation mechanism. The advantage of the present approach is its capacity to deal with a nonuniform electrostatic poten...

The phase separation of ultrathin polymer-blend films of polystyrene and polybutadiene on microcontact printed alkanethiol patterns with hydrophobic and hydrophilic end groups (2CH3 and 2COOH! is investigated by atomic force microscopy. Simulations suggest that the phase-separation morphology can be controlled through patterns that modulate the polymer-surface interaction, and this concept is v...

The application of chaotic advection to polymer blends and composites originated in the corresponding author’s laboratory in 1991. Research has resulted in smart blending devices now being adopted by industry. In the accompanying talk, key concepts and recent results are described where polymer melt components are more controllably formed in situ into a wide variety of blend morphologies and wh...