Crystallinity of semicrystalline polymers such as aliphatic homopolymer poly(L-lactic acid) (PLLA) affects their degradation and physical properties. In this paper, the effects of laser irradiation using the third harmonic of a Nd:YAG laser on the crystallinity, long-range order, and short-range conformations at the surface of PLLA films are investigated. The factors affecting the transformatio...

Crystallinity refers to the degree of structural order in a solid and has a big influence on hardness, density, transparency and diffusion. Even within materials that are crystalline completely, the degree of structural perfection can vary, reflecting size and elastic strain of many independent crystalline regions (grains or crystallites) of which these materials are composed. In this work it w...

Yang et al suggest that the use of low-crystallinity poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) exaggerates our results. However, the primary focus of our study was identifying an organism capable of the biological degradation and assimilation of PET, regardless of its crystallinity. We provide additional PET depolymerization data that further support several other lines of data showing PET assimilatio...

The spectroscopic and photocatalytic properties of a series of Au@TiO(2) core-shell nanostructures are characterized. The crystallinity of the TiO(2) shells was varied by changing the etching and calcination conditions. Measurements of the photoluminescence, transient absorption, and H(2) production rate permit us to look for correlations between the spectroscopic and catalytic behaviors. We fo...

Femtosecond (fs)-laser hyperdoped silicon has aroused great interest for applications in infrared photodetectors due to its special properties. Crystallinity and optical absorption influenced by co-hyperdoped nitrogen in surface microstructured silicon, prepared by fs-laser irradiation in gas mixture of SF₆/NF₃ and SF₆/N₂ were investigated. In both gas mixtures, nitrogen and sulfur were incorpo...

A porous Ni-Fe oxide with improved crystallinity has been prepared as a highly efficient electrocatalytic water oxidation catalyst. It has a small overpotential, a low Tafel slope, and an outstanding stability. The remarkably improved electrocatalytic performance is due to the porous structure, high extent homogeneous iron incorporation, ameliorative crystallinity, and the low mass transfer res...

The properties of molecularly doped films of conjugated polymers are explored as the crystallinity of the polymer is systematically varied. Solution sequential processing (SqP) was used to introduce 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8tetracyanoquinodimethane (F4TCNQ) into poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) (P3HT) while preserving the pristine polymer’s degree of crystallinity. X-ray data suggest that F4TC...

Hansen and coworkers (Zhang, L; Hansen, E. W.; Helland, I; Hinrichsen, E.; Larsen, Aa.; Roots, J. Macromolecules, 2009, 42 (14), 5189-5195) recently reported on the room temperature crystallinity of a series of ethene-1-hexene copolymers using solid-state 1 H-NMR FID analysis. However, due to the required 10 s blanking time of the receiver vital information in the initial part of the FID was l...

a method for the controllable synthesis of silver nanoparticles based on a complexing agent method was developed. citric acid was used as a complexing agent. the effect of ph (1.6 to 5.17) on the size and net height (as obtained from xrd analyses) of silver nanoparticles was investigated. the nanoparticles (10 to 40 nm) were characterized using xrd, tem, sem, edx, uv-vis spectroscopy and tg/dtg...