Inside Front Cover: Poly(vinyl alcohol)-b-poly(styrene) copolymer (PVA-b-PS) self-assembles in solution, and after coating drying, it forms a semipermeable self-assembled membrane, as demonstrated by Wilfredo Yave co-workers article number 2200875. PVA is the permeable matrix PS acts an impermeable nanodomain. The design of this tailor-made block eliminates use chemical cross-linkers acid catal...

Biodegradable polyacrylates were produced by a series of novel copolymerization and/or crosslinking techniques using poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) moieties modified by the incorporation of olefinic structures. PVA was modified by a tosylation and/or detosylation reaction. The functionalized PVA was copolymerized and/or crosslinked with acrylic acid or its partially neutralized form to give crosslin...

determination of blood compatibility is an important problem in blood contacting devices. in this study, two classes of materials including polyurethane (based on polyethylene glycol and poly tetrametylene oxide) and polyvinyl alcohol samples, with different hydrophilicity properties were synthesized and their physico-chemical properties were compared. water uptake ratio, ftir spectroscopy, and...

Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) (PVA) films were prepared with AlCl3·6H2O/glycerin and AlCl3·6H2O/poly glycerin as two kinds of complex plasticizer. The micromorphology of pure PVA film and PVA films plasticized with complex plasticizer was observed by Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). The interaction between complex plas...