Search results for "FILMS"

Innovative Combination of Three Alternating Current Relaxation Techniques: Electrical Charge, Mass, and Color Impedance Spectroscopy. Part I: The Tool

2009

Technical details concerning the simultaneous acquisition of three impedance functions (electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, alternating current electrogravimetry or mass impedance, and alternating current colorimetry or color impedance) are presented. The analysis of each type of impedance function gives interesting information about the species participating during the electrochemical processes. Furthermore, obtaining three impedance functions in situ allows the crossed impedance functions to be calculated. These functions are especially useful in detecting delays between the color, mass, and electrical charge response of the system to the same perturbation, and it allows species parti…

Thermodynamics of Aqueous Poly(ethylene oxide)−Poly(propylene oxide)−Poly(ethylene oxide)/Surfactant Mixtures. Effect of the Copolymer Molecular Weig…

2004

A calorimetric study was performed to focus attention on the interactions between copolymers and anionic surfactants in aqueous solutions. Three aspects were analyzed: (1) the hydrophobicity of the surfactant, (2) the change of the copolymer molecular weight, and (3) the nature of the hydrophilicity of the copolymer. To this purpose, the family of sodium alkanoates (sodium octanoate through sodium dodecanoate) and the triblock copolymers EO76PO 29EO76 (F68), EO103PO39EO 103 and EO132PO50EO132 were investigated. Comparing F68 and EO13PO30EO13 (L64), previously studied by us, provided information on the effect of the copolymer hydrophilicity. The experimental data were analyzed by means of a …

Polymer stain resistance: Prediction versus experiment

2013

Citric Acid Based Carbon Dots with Amine Type Stabilizers: pH-Specific Luminescence and Quantum Yield Characteristics

2020

We report the synthesis and spectroscopic characteristics of two different sets of carbon dots (CDs) formed by hydrothermal reaction between citric acid and polyethylenimine (PEI) or 2,3-diaminopyridine (DAP). Although the formation of amide-based species and the presence of citrazinic acid type derivates assumed to be responsible for a blue emission is confirmed for both CDs by elemental analysis, infrared spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry, a higher abundance of sp2-hybridized nitrogen is observed for DAP-based CDs, which causes a red-shift of the n-π* absorption band relative to the one of PEI-based CDs. These CD systems possess high photoluminescence quantum yields (QY) of ∼40% and ∼48…

Basic kinetic model for the reaction yielding linear polyurethanes. II

1995

On the basis of the gradual polyaddition kinetic model developed earlier, an attempt was made to provide a generalized mathematical model for the set of reactions yielding linear polyurethanes. The model is a system of first-order ordinary differential equations. It was assumed at the present stage of this model that the rate constants for the reaction considered do not change. The model developed was then solved numerically. Average molecular weight of the polymer and composition data for oligomers were calculated for a constant volume batch reactor and varied process parameters. The GPC method, which was tested for model urethane oligomers, was employed to verify the model developed. The …

Crystallization of polymer melts under fast cooling. II. High-purity iPP

1992

SYNOPSIS Samples of a high-purity isotactic polypropylene (iPP) were quenched from the melt so as to monitor cooling history. A continuous variation of morphology and crystal structure was obtained with cooling rate. This is discussed in relation to sample thermal history evidencing that cooling history relevant to quenched samples is in the neighborhood of 90°C. In particular the samples are essentially mesomorphic when at this temperature cooling rates larger than 80°C/s were adopted, while below a few tens of °C/s only a­ monocline form is obtained. Densities of quenched samples were compared with predictions of an isokinetic extrapolation of Avrami model of polymer crystallization kinet…

Nonionic Maleic Surfmers

2002

ABSTRACT A set of nonionic maleic surfactants have been prepared, all coming from the derivatization of maleic hemiesters with a long alkyl chain. They are either amidoesters or diester products. In the case of amidoesters, the acid group was first activated and then reacted with primary or secondary or tertiary ethanolamine compounds. In the case of diesters, the hemiester was reacted directly with glycidol, in acid or basic conditions. These surfactants were characterized for their structure by 1H NMR, and for their surface active properties, by surface tension measurements. They were also used in batch emulsion polymerisation of styrene, and seeded core-shell copolymerisation of a 1/1 mi…

Reactions of Maleisomides with Alcohols

2004

Abstract New surfactants (surfmers) with various amide and ester groups next to C˭C double bonds have been obtained. Maleic acid amidesters (AE) with different hydrophobic groups at the nitrogen atom and hydrophilic substituents at oxygen atoms were synthesized starting with maleic isoimides. 1H KMR and IR spectra were used for their characterization. Some were further characterized for their critical micellar concentration (CMC). A few cationic and zwitterionic surfmers were also prepared from isoimide precursors and characterized. All these surfmers were applied in batch emulsion polymerization of styrene, and in core‐shell seeded copolymerization of styrene and butylacrylate to give late…

Polymer supported synthesis of mixed ligand complexes

2003

A series of novel polymer-supported mixed ligand complexes were synthesized and studied. Two percent divinyl benzene (DVB)-crosslinked polystyrene supports were synthesized by the suspension copolymerization technique. An ethylene diamine group was anchored onto the support and the corresponding copper complexes were prepared. The ligating functions like phthalate, acetate, and oxalate groups were introduced, and mixed ligands complexes were synthesized. The resultant polymer supported mixed ligand complexes were characterized by UV-Vis, IR, and EPR methods. The stability constants dictate the formation of these complexes on polymer support. Spectral results gave information about the struc…

On the handedness of helical aggregates of C3 tricarboxamides: a multichiroptical characterization

2015

A complete chiroptical characterization of the supramolecular polymers formed by tricarboxamides (S)-1 and (R)-1 is performed using ECD, VCD and CPL dichroic techniques. The helical aggregates show an intense CPL signal and their absolute P- or M-configuration is assigned with the help of theoretical calculations.