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The Structural Dispersity of Oligoethylene Glycol-Containing Polymer Brushes Determines Their Interfacial Properties
Harm-Anton Klok, Alberto Ongaro, Irene Filipucci
Ought to their bioinert properties and facile synthesis, poly[(oligoethylene glycol)methacrylate]s (POEGMAs) have been raised as attractive alternatives to poly(ethylene glycols) (PEGs) in an array of (bio)material applications, especially when they are ap ...
Amer Chemical Soc2024Additive and digital manufacturing of transient sensors and bioelectronics
Transient electronics have emerged as a promising class of devices, capable of breaking down without harmful side effects to their environment. They have tremendous potential as bioresorbable electronics for temporary applications in the human body, and as ...
EPFL2023Acetal-Stabilized Carbohydrates as Novel Platform Molecules for Renewable Polymer Production
To address the rising demand for plastics, it is essential to create new types of polymers that are both highly recyclable and emit minimal amounts of greenhouse gases. These plastics should be derived from readily available, renewable feedstocks. Such eff ...
EPFL2023High Permittivity Siloxanes as Promising Materials for Dielectric Elastomer Transducers: From Synthesis to Application
The speed of change in the modern world is impressive. Within the last 50 years, many devices and technologies have significantly transformed their appearance, intrinsic characteristics and improved their performance. Computers have changed from the size o ...
EPFL2022Reversible and Broad-Range Oxygen Sensing Based on Purely Organic Long-Lived Photoemitters
Esther Amstad, René M. Rossi, Efe Armagan
The detection of oxygen (O-2) by optical sensors is of growing importance, for example, in biology, life science, environmental science, and aerodynamics, where the composition of gases is crucial for many applications. Purely organic optical O-2 sensors a ...
2021Effect of Backsheet Properties on PV Encapsulant Degradation during Combined Accelerated Aging Tests
Andreas Schueler, Djamel Eddine Mansour
Long-term photovoltaic (PV) module reliability is highly determined by the durability of the polymeric components (backsheet and encapsulation materials). This paper presents the result of experiments on encapsulant degradation influenced by the backsheet ...
2021A facile synthetic strategy to polysiloxanes containing sulfonyl side groups with high dielectric permittivity
The chemical modification of polymers with lateral polar groups increases their dielectric permittivity above the glass transition temperature, making them attractive materials for dielectric elastomer actuators. Despite the large dipole moment of the sulf ...
Royal Society of Chemistry2017A Versatile Synthetic Path to Thiol Containing Polysiloxanes
A synthetic strategy to polydimethylsiloxanes and polymethylsiloxanes containing thiol functions as end- or side-groups, respectively, is presented. Such polymers are important starting materials for elastomeric networks and postpolymerization modification ...
Wiley-Blackwell2016Shape-Persistent, Thermoresponsive Polypeptide Brushes Prepared by Vapor Deposition Surface-Initiated Ring-Opening Polymerization of alpha-Amino Acid N-Carboxyanhydrides
Harm-Anton Klok, Solenne Desseaux
Surface-grafting thermoresponsive polymers allows the preparation of thin polymer brush coatings with surface properties that can be manipulated by variation of temperature. In most instances, thermoresponsive polymer brushes are produced using polymers th ...
Amer Chemical Soc2015Polymer Adsorption on Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for One-Step Amino-Functionalized Silica Encapsulation
Heinrich Hofmann, Lionel André Maurizi
This paper presents an original method to obtain, in one step, core/shell nanoparticles grafted covalently with polymer and functionalized with amino groups. By combining polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and silica precursors, we were able to obtain silica-coated a ...
Hindawi Publishing Corporation2015