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A Correlation between Lamellar Contraction and Applied Shear Stress in Diblock Copolymers

A Highly Regular Hexagonally Perforated Lamellar Structure in a Quiescent Diblock Copolymer

A Phase Diagram of the P3HT:PCBM Organic Photovoltaic System: Implications for Device Processing and Performance

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A Real-Time Simultaneous Small- and Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering Study of In-Situ Deformation of Isotropic Polyethylene

A Synchrotron SAXS Study of Structure Development Kinetics during the Reactive Processing of Flexible Polyurethane Foam

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A direct method to determine the degree of crystallinity and lamellar thickness of polymers: application to polyethylene

A double area detector system for simultaneous small and wide-angle X-ray scattering

A scattering study of nucleation phenomena in polymer crystallisation

A synchrotron SAXS study of the structure development kinetics during the reactive processing of flexible polyurethane foam

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A synchrotron X-ray study of melting and recrystallization in isotactic polypropylene

A toolbox approach to adhesive design

An FT i.r. study of reaction kinetics and structure development in model flexible polyurethane foam systems

An aligned 3D neuronal-glial co-culture model for peripheral nerve studies.

scientific article published on 30 May 2012

Antagonistic Triblock Polymer Gels Powered by pH Oscillations

Application of thermal methods in the characterisation of poly(urethane-urea)s formed by reaction injection moulding

article published in 1988

Aqueous Dispersion Polymerization: A New Paradigm for in Situ Block Copolymer Self-Assembly in Concentrated Solution

scientific article published on 08 September 2011

Aqueous Particulate Foams Stabilized Solely with Polymer Latex Particles

scientific article published on 01 August 2006

Aqueous mesophases of block copolymers of ethylene oxide and 1,2-butylene oxide

Are metastable, precrystallisation, density-fluctuations a universal phenomena?

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Association and Surface Properties of Poly(ethylene oxide)−Poly(styrene oxide) Diblock Copolymers in Aqueous Solution

Autonomous Volume Transitions of a Polybase Triblock Copolymer Gel in a Chemically Driven pH-Oscillator

article by Paul D Topham et al published September 2007 in Macromolecular Symposia

Bilayers and interdigitation in block copolymer vesicles

scientific article published in June 2005

Biorenewable Multiphase Polymers

Can rheometry measure crystallization kinetics? A comparative study using block copolymers

Chain Folding in Crystallizable Block Copolymers

Chain Folding in Semicrystalline Oxybutylene/Oxyethylene/Oxybutylene Triblock Copolymers Studied by Raman Spectroscopy

Chain Folding in Semicrystalline Oxyethylene/Oxybutylene Diblock Copolymers

Chain folding in cyclic oligo(oxyethylene)s Crystallinity of large unsubstituted crown ethers by X-ray scattering and differential scanning calorimetry

Chain folding in poly(ɛ-caprolactone) studied by small-angle X-ray scattering and Raman spectroscopy. A strategy for blending in the crystalline state

Characterisation and evaluation of the impact of microfabricated pockets on the performance of limbal epithelial stem cells in biodegradable PLGA membranes for corneal regeneration

scientific article published on 16 January 2014

Characterisation of polyurethane networks based on vegetable derived polyol

Characterization of polymer-silica nanocomposite particles with core-shell morphologies using Monte Carlo simulations and small angle X-ray scattering.

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Chemical actuation in responsive hydrogels

Chemically induced oscillations in a pH-responsive hydrogel

Combination of microstereolithography and electrospinning to produce membranes equipped with niches for corneal regeneration

scientific article published on 12 September 2014

Combined microfabrication and electrospinning to produce 3-D architectures for corneal repair

scientific article published on 3 November 2012

Control of Structural Morphology in Shear-Induced Crystallization of Polymers

Controlled growth of poly (2-(diethylamino)ethyl methacrylate) brushes via atom transfer radical polymerisation on planar silicon surfaces

Controlling Fusion and Aggregation in Polymersome Dispersions

Controlling Polymersome Surface Topology at the Nanoscale by Membrane Confined Polymer/Polymer Phase Separation

scientific article published on 23 February 2011

Copolyureas formed by reaction injection moulding: correlations between chemical structure, thermal properties and microphase separation

Correlating Structure with Function in Thermally Annealed PCDTBT:PC70BM Photovoltaic Blends

Cross-linking of cationic block copolymer micelles by silica deposition

scientific article published in 2007

Crystallization and Ionic Associations in Semicrystalline Ionomers

Crystallization behavior of oxyethylene/oxybutylene diblock and triblock copolymers

Crystallization in Oriented Semicrystalline Diblock Copolymers

Crystallization in block copolymer melts: Small soft structures that template larger hard structures

Crystallization of a Weakly Segregated Polyolefin Diblock Copolymer

Crystallization of nanoscale-confined diblock copolymer chains

Cyclic polyethers

Density fluctuations: The nucleation event in isotactic polypropylene crystallization

Development of a 3D cell culture system for investigating cell interactions with electrospun fibers

scientific article published in August 2007

Development of a 3D human in vitro skin co-culture model for detecting irritants in real-time.

scientific article published in August 2010

Development of a bioreactor for evaluating novel nerve conduits

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Development of a closed bioreactor system for culture of tissue-engineered skin at an air-liquid interface

scientific article published in November 2005

Development of bilayer and trilayer nanofibrous/microfibrous scaffolds for regenerative medicine

scientific article published on 03 June 2013

Development of biodegradable electrospun scaffolds for dermal replacement

scientific article published on 29 April 2008

Direct visualization of the real time swelling and collapse of a poly(methacrylic acid) brush using atomic force microscopy

scholarly article by Andrew J. Parnell et al published 2009 in Soft Matter

Dynamics of (micro)phase separation during fast, bulk copolymerization: some synchrotron SAXS experiments

Dynamics of Structure Formation and Crystallization in Asymmetric Diblock Copolymers

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Dynamics of Structure Formation in Crystallizable Block Copolymers

Early Stages of Crystallization in Isotactic Polypropylene

Effect of Amphiphile Size on the Transformation from a Lyotropic Gel to a Vesicular Dispersion

Effect of Architecture on the Crystal Morphology of Block Copolymers. Small-Angle X-ray Scattering and Differential Scanning Calorimetry

article published in 2002

Effect of Block Architecture on the Gelation of Aqueous Solutions of Oxyethylene/Oxybutylene Block Copolymers

Effect of Chain Extenders on the Morphology Development in Flexible Polyurethane Foam

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Effect of Matrix Polymer on Flow-Induced Nucleation in Polymer Blends

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Effect of hard segment content and carbon-based nanostructures on the kinetics of flexible polyurethane nanocomposite foams

Effect of processing parameters on the morphology development during extrusion of polyethylene tape: An in-line small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) study

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Effect of substrate and molecular weight on the stability of thin films of semicrystalline block copolymers.

scientific article published on 21 February 2007

Effect of substrate surface on dewetting behavior and chain orientation of semicrystalline block copolymer thin films.

scientific article published in December 2006

Effect of the Hofmeister anions upon the swelling of a self-assembled pH-responsive hydrogel

scientific article published in June 2010

Effect of the molecular weight of the homopolymers on the morphology in ternary blends of polystyrene, polyisoprene, polystyrene-block-polyisoprene copolymer

Effects of vandetanib on adenoma formation in a dextran sodium sulphate enhanced Apc(MIN/+) mouse model.

scientific article published on October 2010

Facile Synthesis of Well-Defined Hydrophilic Methacrylic Macromonomers Using ATRP and Click Chemistry

First observation of an ordered microphase in melts of poly(oxyethylene)–poly(oxypropylene) block copolymers

From Hard Spheres to Soft Spheres: The Effect of Copolymer Composition on the Structure of Micellar Cubic Phases Formed by Diblock Copolymers in Aqueous Solution

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From a Water-Immiscible Monomer to Block Copolymer Nano-Objects via a One-Pot RAFT Aqueous Dispersion Polymerization Formulation

Homopolymer induced aggregation of poly(ethylene oxide)n-b-poly(butylene oxide)m polymersomes

scientific article published in May 2010

Hydration and Ordering of Lamellar Block Copolymer Films under Controlled Water Vapor

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In-SituStudies of Structure Development during the Reactive Processing of Model Flexible Polyurethane Foam Systems Using FT-IR Spectroscopy, Synchrotron SAXS, and Rheology

Inhibition of crystalline structure development in a reactive polycarbonate-poly(butyleneterephthalate) blend

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Interplay between Gelation and Phase Separation in Aqueous Solutions of Methylcellulose and Hydroxypropylmethylcellulose

scientific article published on 29 June 2012

Intracranial injuries resulting from boxing

scientific article published on January 1, 1998

Investigation of fibroblast and keratinocyte cell-scaffold interactions using a novel 3D cell culture system.

scientific article published on February 2007

Ionic Reaction of Halogens with Terminal Alkenes: The Effect of Electron-Withdrawing Fluorine Substituents on the Bonding of Halonium Ions

scientific article published on May 16, 2003

Isothermal Crystallization Kinetics and Melting Behavior of Poly(oxyethylene)-b-poly(oxybutylene)/Poly(oxybutylene) Blends

Lamellarsomes: metastable polymeric multilamellar aggregates

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

Large Cyclic Poly(oxyethylene)s: Chain Folding in the Crystalline State Studied by Raman Spectroscopy, X-ray Scattering, and Differential Scanning Calorimetry

Long-Range Structural Order, Moiré Patterns, and Iridescence in Latex-Stabilized Foams

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Low-Frequency Raman Spectroscopy of Oxyethylene/Oxybutylene/Oxyethylene Triblock Copolymers

Low-molar-mass cyclic poly(oxyethylene)s studied by Raman spectroscopy, X-ray scattering and differential scanning calorimetry

Mechanistic Insights for Block Copolymer Morphologies: How Do Worms Form Vesicles?

scientific article published on 09 September 2011

Mesophase Behavior of Aqueous Micellar Solutions of Triblock Copolymers of Ethylene Oxide and 1,2-Butylene Oxide (Type EmBnEm)

article published in 2003

Microfluidic-Spinning-Directed Microreactors Toward Generation of Multiple Nanocrystals Loaded Anisotropic Fluorescent Microfibers

Microphase Separation in Poly(oxyethylene)−Poly(oxybutylene) Diblock Copolymers

Microphase-Separation Behavior of Triblock Copolymer Melts. Comparison with Diblock Copolymer Melts

Modes of Crystallization in Block Copolymer Microdomains: Breakout, Templated, and Confined

Monodisperse macromolecules – A stepping stone to understanding industrial polymers

scholarly article by Oleksandr O. Mykhaylyk et al published April 2011 in European Polymer Journal

Morphological Confinement on Crystallization in Blends of Poly(oxyethylene-block-oxybutylene) and Poly(oxybutylene)

article published in 2002

Morphological change of asymmetric oxyethylene/oxybutylene block copolymers induced by montmorillonite

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Morphologies of Microphase-Separated A2B Simple Graft Copolymers

Morphology Development via Reaction-Induced Phase Separation in Flexible Polyurethane Foam

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Morphology and properties of novel copoly(isocyanurate-urea)s formed by reaction injection moulding

Morphology of semicrystalline oxyethylene/oxybutylene block copolymer thin films on mica

Neuron-like tubular membranes made of diblock copolymer amphiphiles

scientific article published in March 2006

On the mechanism of formation of vesicles from poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(caprolactone) copolymers

Order, Disorder, and Composition Fluctuation Effects in Low Molar Mass Hydrocarbon−Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Diblock Copolymers

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Order-disorder transition in a block copolyurethane

Ordered melts of block copolymers of ethylene oxide and 1,2-butylene oxide

Order−Disorder Transition in Poly(oxyethylene)−Poly(oxybutylene) Diblock Copolymers

Orientational Ordering of a Poly(oxyethylene)−Poly(oxybutylene) Diblock Copolymer Gel under Steady Shear Flow

Pathways of polymeric vesicle formation

scientific article published in June 2006

Phase diagram prediction for a blend of Poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene ether) (PPE)/epoxy resin during reaction induced phase separation

Poly(oxyethylene) Chains and Rings Studied by Raman Spectroscopy and Differential Scanning Calorimetry

Polyisoprene-Polystyrene Diblock Copolymer Phase Diagram near the Order-Disorder Transition

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Polymer Crystallization Confined in One, Two, or Three Dimensions

Polymer Crystallization in 25-nm Spheres

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Polymer processing: Using synchrotron radiation to follow structure development in commercial and novel polymer materials

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Polymer science: Designer polymer blends

scientific article published on 01 September 2002

Polymeric vesicle permeability: a facile chemical assay

scientific article published in May 2006

Polymers: the quest for motility

Polymersomes hydrophilic brush scaling relations

Postproduction processing of electrospun fibres for tissue engineering

scientific article published on 9 August 2012

Predictive Phase Diagrams for RAFT Aqueous Dispersion Polymerization: Effect of Block Copolymer Composition, Molecular Weight, and Copolymer Concentration

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Preparation and crystallinity of a large unsubstituted crown ether, cyclic heptacosa(oxyethylene)(cyclo-E27, 81-crown-27), studied by Raman spectroscopy, X-ray scattering and differential scanning calorimetry

Processing of Poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene ether) with Epoxy Resin. 1. Reaction-Induced Phase Separation

article published in 2000

Processing of Poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene ether) with Epoxy Resin. 2. Gelation Mechanism

Production, Sterilisation and Storage of Biodegradable Electrospun PLGA Membranes for Delivery of Limbal Stem Cells to the Cornea

scholarly article by Farshid Sefat et al published 2013 in Procedia Engineering

Quantifying hydrogel response using laser light scattering

RAFT aqueous dispersion polymerization yields poly(ethylene glycol)-based diblock copolymer nano-objects with predictable single phase morphologies

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Reactive processing of acrylic-polyurea interpenetrating networks: reaction kinetic studies

Real-Time Simultaneous Wide- and Small-Angle Fibre Diffraction

scientific article published on 01 March 1995

Real-time detection of stress in 3D tissue-engineered constructs using NF-kappaB activation in transiently transfected human dermal fibroblast cells

scientific article published in May 2007

Recent experiments on a small-angle/wide-angle X-ray scattering beam line at the ESRF

article published in 2003

Reciprocating power generation in a chemically driven synthetic muscle

scientific article published in January 2006

Rheology and Structures of Aqueous Gels of Diblock(Oxyethylene/Oxybutylene) Copolymer E22B7

Rheology and structures of aqueous gels of diblock(oxyethylene–oxybutylene) copolymers with lengthy oxyethylene blocks

Sample environments and techniques combined with Small Angle X-ray Scattering

scientific article published on 01 March 1998

Segmented Polyimides with Poly(ethylene oxide) Blocks Exhibiting Liquid Crystallinity

Self-Assembled Block Copolymer Aggregates: From Micelles to Vesicles and their Biological Applications

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Self-Assembly-Driven Electrospinning: The Transition from Fibers to Intact Beaded Morphologies

scientific article published on 2 June 2015

Self-Motile Colloidal Particles: From Directed Propulsion to Random Walk

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Self-assembled autonomous runners and tumblers

scientific article published on 23 July 2010

Self-assembly of double hydrophilic block copolymers in concentrated aqueous solution

Self-organization of skin cells in three-dimensional electrospun polystyrene scaffolds

scientific article published in July 2005

Shear ordered diblock copolymers with tuneable optical properties

scientific article published on 15 December 2010

Shear-Induced Crystallization in Blends of Model Linear and Long-Chain Branched Hydrogenated Polybutadienes

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Shear-induced crystallization of polyethylene studied by small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS/WAXS) techniques

Silk and synthetic polymers: reconciling 100 degrees of separation

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Simplifying corneal surface regeneration using a biodegradable synthetic membrane and limbal tissue explants

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Simultaneous Studies of Reaction Kinetics and Structure Development in Polymer Processing

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Soft hydrogels from nanotubes of poly(ethylene oxide)-tetraphenylalanine conjugates prepared by click chemistry

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Spinodal decomposition during bulk copolymerization: reaction injection moulding

Squaring up with polymers

scientific article published in Nature

Sterilizable gels from thermoresponsive block copolymer worms

scientific article published on 31 May 2012

Structural models of metastable phases occurring during the crystallization process of saturated/unsaturated triacylglycerols

Structures of Oxyethylene/Oxybutylene Diblock Copolymers in Their Solid and Liquid States

Structures of amphiphilic block copolymers in their liquid and solid states

Synthesis and Characterization of Block Copolymers of Polyoxyethylene and Polylactide with Different Architectures

Synthesis and Solid State Properties of a Poly(methyl methacrylate)-block-poly(2-(diethylamino)ethyl methacrylate)-block-poly(methyl methacrylate) Triblock Copolymer

Synthesis of Well-Defined Branched Copolymers by Quaternization of Near-Monodisperse Homopolymers

Synthesis, characterization and swelling behaviour of poly(methacrylic acid) brushes synthesized using atom transfer radical polymerization

Tailoring Macromolecular Expression at Polymersome Surfaces

scholarly article by Adam Blanazs et al published 23 September 2009 in Advanced Functional Materials

Templated formation of giant polymer vesicles with controlled size distributions

scientific article published in June 2009

Testing the vesicular morphology to destruction: birth and death of diblock copolymer vesicles prepared via polymerization-induced self-assembly

scientific article published on 27 January 2015

The Nanoscale Morphology of a PCDTBT:PCBM Photovoltaic Blend

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The Specific Work of Flow as a Criterion for Orientation in Polymer Crystallization

The application of distance distribution functions to structural analysis of core–shell particles

The barrier properties of polyethylene terephthalate to mixtures of oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen

The development of nanoscale morphology in polymer:fullerene photovoltaic blends during solvent casting

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The effect of PEO length on the self-assembly of poly(ethylene oxide)-tetrapeptide conjugates prepared by "Click" chemistry

scientific article published in September 2009

The effect of annealing on the structure and properties of isotactic polypropylene films

article published in 1995

The effect of architecture on the morphology and crystallization of oxyethylene/oxybutylene block copolymers from micelles in n-hexane

The efficiency of encapsulation within surface rehydrated polymersomes

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The emerging role of PtdIns5P: another signalling phosphoinositide takes its place.

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The evolution of vesicles from bulk lamellar gels

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

The interaction between fundamental and industrial research and experimental developments in the field of polymer crystallization

The pH-induced swelling and collapse of a polybase brush synthesized by atom transfer radical polymerization

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The relationship between polyurethane foam microstructure and foam aging

Thermal, mechanical and fracture properties of reaction injection-moulded poly(urethane-urea)s

Thermal, mechanical, and fracture properties of copolyureas formed by reaction injection molding: Effects of hard segment structure

Thermoreversible crystallization-driven aggregation of diblock copolymer nanoparticles in mineral oil.

scientific article published on 2 April 2018

Thin Film Morphology of Symmetric Semicrystalline Oxyethylene/Oxybutylene Diblock Copolymers on Silicon

Three-Dimensional Alignment of Schwann Cells Using Hydrolysable Microfiber Scaffolds: Strategies for Peripheral Nerve Repair

scientific article published on 01 January 2011

Time resolved simultaneous small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering during polyethylene deformation 3. Compression of polyethylene

Time resolved simultaneous small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering during polyethylene deformation: 1. Cold drawing of ethylene-α-olefin copolymers

Time resolved simultaneous small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering during polyethylene deformation—II. Cold drawing of linear polyethylene

Time-Resolved Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Studies of Polymer−Silica Nanocomposite Particles: Initial Formation and Subsequent Silica Redistribution

scientific article published on 20 December 2010

Time-resolved X-ray studies of polymorphism in isotactic polybut-1-ene

article published in 1995

Toughening by nanostructure

Unexpected Facile Redistribution of Adsorbed Silica Nanoparticles Between Latexes

scientific article published on 01 February 2010

Using multimodal blends to elucidate the mechanism of flow-induced crystallization in polymers

Using poly(lactide-co-glycolide) electrospun scaffolds to deliver cultured epithelial cells to the cornea

scientific article published in May 2010

Using synchrotron radiation to study polymer processing

When a cartoon is just not funny

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

pH controlled assembly of a polybutadiene–poly(methacrylic acid) copolymer in water: packing considerations and kinetic limitations