This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51973010).
Star-shaped poly(lactic acid)s(PLAs)with two to five arms were synthesized by ring opening polymerization using tin(II)2-ethylhexanoate as catalyst and polyols as initiators.The effects of molecular weight together wi...
the financial contribution from Central Guidance on Local Science and Technology Development Fund of Liaoning Province(grant No.2023JH6/100100004);National Key Research and Development Program of China(grant No.2021YFC2901300);National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant No.22021005,22378041);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(grant No.DUT22YG208,DUT22LAB603);Key Research and Development Projects in Shandong Province(grant No.2022CXGC010303);acknowledge the assistance of Dalian University of Technology Instrumental Analysis Center.
Drug particles with spherical morphology possess amazing advantages in terms of particle flowability,mechanical properties,drug solubility,and bioavailability.The growth mechanism of drug spherulite is of great import...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21674128);Science Foundation of China University of Petroleum,Beijing(No.ZX20200097).
Spherulites are the most common crystalline morphology and thus the visual expression of crystal structures for polymers.The diversified patterns have provided intuitive morphology probes for various crystallization b...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51625304 and 51873182).
Poly(L-lactic acid)(PLLA)has drawn much attention due to its excellent medical and pharmaceutical applications for decades.As a semi-crystalline polymer,morphology and crystal structure of PLLA greatly determine its p...
This project was supported by the U.S.Department of Energy(DOE),Office of Science,Office of Basic Energy Sciences(BES),Materials Sciences and Engineering Division under Contract No.DE-AC02-05-CH11231 within the in-situ TEM(KC22ZH)program.Work at the Molecular Foundry was supported by the Office of Science,Office of Basic Energy Sciences,of the U.S.Department of Energy under Contract No.DE-AC02-05CH11231.We acknowledge Gatan Inc.for the advanced K2 IS camera and Dr.Ming Pan and Dr.Cory Czarnik for their help with part of experimental set up in this work.W.J.Z.acknowledges the support from Tianjin University Graduate School International Academic Exchange Fund.M.R.H.was funded by KAUST project under H.M.Z.at UC Berkeley.
The formation of complex hierarchical nanostructures has attracted a lot of attention from both the fundamental science and potential applications point of view.Spherulite structures with radial fibrillar branches hav...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51525305 and 21134006);the Newton Advanced Fellowship of Royal Society(No.NA150222)
By using polybutene-1 as a typical example, we illustrate the initiation, development and stabilization of cavities in the sample during tensile deformation. Samples with the same crystallinity, long spacing and cryst...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51573115 and 51421061)
Abstract The overall crystallization kinetics and spherulite morphologies of miscible poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)/1-butyl-3- methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate ([BMIM][PF6]) mixtures were studied by differenti...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB025901);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21174139);the Open Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
A significant enhancement in isothermal crystallization kinetics of biodegradable polylactide(PLA) in its immiscible blends can be accomplished through blending it with a comb-like copolymer. PLA was blended with poly...
Acknowledgements This work has been supported by the Israel Science Foundation (No. 434/12) and by the National Agency for Research, Development, and Innovation, Hungary under contract OTKA-K-115959.
Multi-hierarchical self-assembly (MHSA) is a key process responsible for the spontaneous formation of many complex structures. However, because of the complexity of the process, the underlying mechanism remains larg...
Project supported by the National Key Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (Grant No.2012CB025903);the Foundation for Fundamental Research of Northwestern Polytechnical University,China (Grant No.JCY20130141);the Doctorate Foundation of Northwestern Polytechnical University,China (Grant No.cx201019);the Fund for Doctoral Students Newcomer Awards from the Ministry of Education of China
A modified phase-field model is proposed for simulating the isothermal crystallization of polymer melts. The model consists of a second-order phase-field equation and a heat conduction equation. It obtains its model p...