Semiconducting Polymeric Materials

Polymeric triple-shape materials.

Shape-memory polymers represent a promising class of materials that can move from one shape to another in response to a stimulus such as heat. Thus far, these systems are dual-shape materials. Here, we report a triple-shape polymer able to change from a first shape (A) to a second shape (B) and from there to a third shape (C). Shapes B and C are recalled by subsequent temperature increases. Whe...

Polymeric Nanocomposite Materials

Polymeric Dielectric Materials

The definition for dielectric constant relates to the permittivity of the material (symbol use here ε). The permittivity expresses the ability of a material to polarise in response to an applied field. It is the ratio of the permittivity of the dielectric to the permittivity of a vacuum. Physically it means the greater the polarisation developed by a material in an applied field of given streng...

Exafs Analysis of Size-constrained Semiconducting Materials

Semiconducting materials such as CdSe, CdS, PbS and GaP are included in crystalline zeolite Y and mordenite and structurally flexible ethylenemethacrylic acid copolymer solid matrices. EXAFS anal sis reveals formation of while the polymer matrices allow agglomeration of larger semiconducting particles. Zeolite anchored structures are distinctively different to small particles with bulk crystal ...

Multiscale Modeling of Polymeric Materials

Review of Project Objectives: Our overall objective for the three-year duration of this project is to design an adaptive, learning, simulation technique for polymers covering the range from atoms to coarsegrained chains, and apply the technique to the description of nanofilled polymers. Accomplishing this objective requires four activities, with the first two corresponding to the first two proj...