highly active metallocenes and other single site catalysts have opened up the possibility of polymerizing cycloolefins such as norbornene (n) or of copolymerizing them with ethene (e) or propene (p). the polymers obtained show exciting structures and properties. e-n copolymers are industrially produced materials, with variable and high glass transitions depending on the wide range of their micr...

Development of structures in new cycloolefin copolymers (COCs) of ethylene–norbornene (E–NB) and ethylene–tetracyclododecene (E–TD) of different NB/TD compositions were investigated under uniaxial elongational flow. For E–NB copolymer, which has multiblock sequences, a shoulder in WAXD at 0.76 nm was evident besides its amorphous halo, and the relative intensity of the peak increased with incre...

Materials on the basis of cycloolefin copolymers (COC) are suitable for subchondral defect repairs. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of surface modification of COC and COC/LLDPE blends on the viability and gene expression of chondrocytes. Human chondrocytes were incubated on the surface of the studied materials. Half of the materials were plasmatically modified with a s...

A novel terahertz polarization beam splitter (PBS) with low loss and large bandwidth based on double core negative curvature fiber is designed. The device takes copolymers of cycloolefin as the substrate, 12 circular tubes embedded are evenly distributed along circumference. divided into two cores through groups circumscribed small clad symmetrical up down. finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) ...

Highly active metallocenes and other single site catalysts have opened up the possibility of polymerizing cycloolefins such as norbornene (N) or of copolymerizing them with ethene (E) or propene (P). The polymers obtained show exciting structures and properties. E-N copolymers are industrially produced materials, with variable and high glass transitions depending on the wide range of their micr...