Description of poly(ethylenepropylene) confined in nanopores by a modified Rouse model.

A recent model for unentangled polymer chains in confinement [M. Dolgushev and M. Krutyeva, Macromol.

Polymer dynamics under cylindrical confinement featuring a locally repulsive surface: A quasielastic neutron scattering study.

We investigated the effect of intermediate cylindrical confinement with locally repulsive walls on the segmental and entanglement dynamics of a polymer melt by quasielastic neutron scattering. As a reference, the corresponding polymer melt was measured under identical conditions. The locally repulsive confinement was realized by hydrophilic anodic alumina nanopores with a diameter of 20 nm.

Nanocomposites of Highly Monodisperse Encapsulated Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanocrystals Homogeneously Dispersed in a Poly(ethylene Oxide) Melt.

Nanocomposite materials based on highly stable encapsulated superparamagnetic iron oxide nanocrystals (SPIONs) were synthesized and characterized by scattering methods and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The combination of advanced synthesis and encapsulation techniques using different diblock copolymers and the thiol-ene click reaction for cross-linking the polymeric shell results in uniform hybrid SPIONs homogeneously dispersed in a poly(ethylene oxide) matrix. Small-angle X-ray scattering and TEM investigations demonstrate the presence of mostly single particles and a negligible amount of dyads.

The role of the binding salt sodium salicylate in semidilute ionic cetylpyridinium chloride micellar solutions: a rheological and scattering study.

The micellar system based on cetylpyridinium chloride (CPCl) and sodium salicylate (NaSal) in brine solution is investigated on both macro- and micro-length scales through rheology and scattering measurements. The linear viscoelasticity of the system and its structural parameters are explored by systematically changing the amount of NaSal over an extremely wide range of concentrations, thus producing salt-to-surfactant molar ratios from zero to about 8.5.