Purpose: The goal of our battery research is to produce an all solid-state, high performance rechargeable cell. Moving to a liquid-free polymer electrolyte eliminates the need for heavy casing material, thus the energy density is increased significantly. In addition, the absence of solvent additives leads to better thermal and chemical stability, broadening the range of applications for which t...

The use of additives to improve the quality of cement grouts is crucial for civil engineering, especially in foundation construction. This article presents experimental data concerning the compressive strength, elastic modulus, bleeding and injectability of microfine cement grouts modified with epoxy and acrylic resin emulsions. Strength properties were obtained at different curing ages. For fu...

Schiff’s bases with specific π-electron system have been synthesized and used as additives in holographic polymer-dispersed liquid crystals. It was observed that these substances modify different parameters such as current intensity, voltage, and diffracted light intensity. In addition, the maximum diffraction efficiency obtained in the reconstruction of the holograms is related to the additive...

The article presents the analysis of the processes occurring together with the turbulent transfer of impulse in mixture of hydrocarbon fluid and polymer solutions (antiturbulent additives). The study evaluates complex shear flows by popular theoretical and practical methods. Understanding of hydrodynamic and dissipative effects of laminar-turbulent transition tightening and turbulence suppressi...

We study the effects of polymer additives on turbulence generated by the ubiquitous Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Numerical simulations of complete viscoelastic models provide clear evidence that the heat transport is enhanced up to 50% with respect to the Newtonian case. This phenomenon is accompanied by a speed-up of the mixing layer growth. We give a phenomenological interpretation of these r...

Droplet rebound is suppressed by a small amount of polymer additives two molecular mechanisms, slow retraction and hopping. Both mechanisms are attributed to the adsorption on surface.

This paper describes the application of gene delivery vectors based on connecting together two well-defined low-generation poly(L-lysine) (PLL) dendrons using a disulfide-containing linker unit. We report that the transfection ability of these vectors in their own right is relatively low, because the low-generation number limits the endosomal buffering capacity. Importantly, however, we demonst...

Packed-column supercritical fluid chromatography (pSFC) with detection using atmospheric pressure chemical ionisation (APCI) mass spectrometry (MS) provides a versatile method for the detection and quantification of 20 polymer additives, including common antioxidants, light stabilisers and slip agents. Using MS with APCI in both positive and negative ion modes both molecular mass data and infor...