The popularity of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) for use in hybrid organic–inorganic materials and devices has grown the past two decades due to desirable properties such as good thermal stability biocompatibility, well their potential be functionalized a wide range applications, from polymer composites optoelectronics. Herein, role POSS photonic including sensing, bioimaging, opt...

Reconstruction of the human auricle remains a challenge to plastic surgeons, and current approaches are not ideal. Tissue engineering provides a promising alternative. This study aims to evaluate the chondrogenic potential of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells on a novel, auricular-shaped polymer. The proposed polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane-modified poly(hexanolactone/carbonate)ur...

A synthetic strategy to ?-silylphospholes with three methoxy, ethoxy, chloro, hydrido, or phenyl substituents at silicon has been developed, starting from trimethoxy, triethoxy, triphenyl silyl substituted phosphanides and 1,4-diphenyl-1,3-butadiyne. These trifunctional silylphospholes were attached the surface of uniform spheric silica particles (15 ?m) and, for comparison, a polyhedral silses...

Polyamide 6 (PA6) and short glass fiber (SGF) reinforced PA6 composites toughened with glycidylisobutyl oligomeric silsesquioxane (G-POSS) and 1.10-carbonyl-bis-caprolactam (CBC) were prepared by meltextrusion compounding process and then compounds were formed to 2 mm thick double edge notched tension samples (DENT) by injection moulding process. Fracture properties of composites were analyzed ...