Homogeneous membranes were prepared by blending poly (acrylic acid) with poly (vinyl alcohol). These blend membranes were evaluated for the selective separation of alcohols from toluene by pervaporation. The flux and selectivity of the membranes were determined both as a function of the blend composition and of the feed mixture composition. The results showed that a polymer blending method coul...

Abstract The addition of a third component to donor:acceptor blend is powerful tool enhance the power conversion efficiency organic solar cells. Featuring similar operating mechanism, photodetectors are also expected benefit from this approach. Here, we fabricated ternary photodetectors, based on polymer donor and two nonfullerene acceptors, resulting in low dark current 0.42 nA cm ?2 at V broa...

Neural responses to odor blends often exhibit non-linear interactions to blend components. The first olfactory processing center in insects, the antennal lobe (AL), exhibits a complex network connectivity. We attempt to determine if non-linear blend interactions can arise purely as a function of the AL network connectivity itself, without necessitating additional factors such as competitive lig...

A stimuli-responsive poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA)/sodium alginate (SA) blend monolith with nanoscale porous (mesoporous) structure is successfully fabricated by thermally impacted non-solvent induced phase separation (TINIPS) method. The PVA/SA blend monolith with different SA contents is conveniently fabricated in an aqueous methanol without any templates. The solvent suitable for the fabrication...

thermoplastic starch (tps) materials present several advantages to the plastic industry andwhen blended with other materials they can exhibit improved mechanical and moisturesensitivity properties compared to pure tps materials. further investigations on tps: pvablends are of particular interest due to their excellent compatibility and improved properties suchas tensile strength, elongation, to...

Experimental hear transfer coefficients are reponed for a tern ary refri!!:eranr blend compo;,.cl of ~u··~ HCFC-!2~ .. l6'~ HC f( ·:2:2. and :2~'1 HFC ·l.52a. Th~> blend is a possible substnnte for C. f('.1~ in 1·apor compression refrkerarion cyd~s. Two-phas e hear transfer coefficrenr< were determined for the pure blend and CFC'-12. The experiments were conducted over a rna;; flux ran~e of l~....

BACKGROUND/AIMS High viscosity silicone oils are used as tamponade agents to increase the resistance to emulsification; however, this makes the oils more difficult to inject. Increasing the extensional viscosity is one way to reduce emulsification. This study aimed to evaluate how silicone oils with increased extensional viscosity behave in terms of their ease of injection. METHODS The shear ...

An equation that relates the g h transition temperature, TE, and a binary interaction parameter, x, for miscible binary polymer blends was derived. The equation including no adjustable parameters was based on a thermodynamic mixing formalism using enthalpy as the thermodynamic parameter. The enthalpy of mixing was written as a van Laar expression, and the T, was formally treated as a second-ord...

The effects of blend ratio and drug loading content of poly(D,L-lactide) (PDLL)/stearic acid blends on microparticle characteristics and drug release behaviors were evaluated. The blend microparticles were prepared by an oil-in-water emulsion solvent evaporation method for drug delivery of a poorly water-soluble model drug, indomethacin. The microparticles were characterized using a combination...