The two most abundant polymers in nature are cellulose and lignin. They are the main components of cell walls of plants. The structure of the cell wall affects the properties of wood products. In wood fibres the cellulose chains spiral in the cell wall, and the helical angle between the direction of the chains and the longitudinal axis of the fibre, the microfibril angle, is one of the paramete...

The article is concerned with hybrid amorphous polymers synthesized basing on epoxy oligomer of diglycide aliphatic ester of polyethylene glycol that was cured by polyethylene polyamine and lithium perchlorate salt. Structural peculiarities of organic-inorganic polymer composites were studied by differential scanning calorimetry, wide-angle X-ray spectra, infrared spectroscopic, scanning electr...

DEVELOPMENT OF IONIC POLYMER METALIC COMPOSITES AS SENSORS By: David Griffiths Ionomeric polymer transducers (IPTs) are an exciting new class of smart materials that can serve a dual purpose in engineering or biomedical applications as sensors or actuators. Most commonly they are used for mechanical actuation, as they have the ability to generate large bending strai...

Electrochemical behavior of a new class of glass-polymer composites (GPC), consisting of (100-x) ~01% (0.56LizS~0.19B~S,.0.25LiI) glass and x ~01% (P(E0)6.LiN(CF$O&) polymer with x = 7, 13 and 25, has been investigated in cells with different electrodes. Results show that the addition of the polymer to the glass powder increases not only the mechanical flexibility but also the ionic conductivit...

The microscopic interfacial structures for a series of metal-organic framework/polymer composites consisting of the Zr-based UiO-66 coupled with different polymers are systematically explored by applying a computational methodology that integrates density functional theory calculations and force field-based molecular dynamics simulations. These predictions are correlated with experimental findi...

A promising range of applications for gallium-based metal and polymer composites