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Mizrahi Rodriguez K, Lin S, Wu AX, Storme KR, Joo T, Grosz AF, Roy N, Syar D, Benedetti FM, Smith ZP. Penetrant-induced plasticization in microporous polymer membranes. Chem Soc Rev 2024; 53:2435-2529. [PMID: 38294167 DOI: 10.1039/d3cs00235g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2024]
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Penetrant-induced plasticization has prevented the industrial deployment of many polymers for membrane-based gas separations. With the advent of microporous polymers, new structural design features and unprecedented property sets are now accessible under controlled laboratory conditions, but property sets can often deteriorate due to plasticization. Therefore, a critical understanding of the origins of plasticization in microporous polymers and the development of strategies to mitigate this effect are needed to advance this area of research. Herein, an integrative discussion is provided on seminal plasticization theory and gas transport models, and these theories and models are compared to an exhaustive database of plasticization characteristics of microporous polymers. Correlations between specific polymer properties and plasticization behavior are presented, including analyses of plasticization pressures from pure-gas permeation tests and mixed-gas permeation tests for pure polymers and composite films. Finally, an evaluation of common and current state-of-the-art strategies to mitigate plasticization is provided along with suggestions for future directions of fundamental and applied research on the topic.
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- Katherine Mizrahi Rodriguez
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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Li Z, Turner J, Snurr RQ. Computational investigation of hysteresis and phase equilibria of n-alkanes in a metal-organic framework with both micropores and mesopores. Commun Chem 2023; 6:90. [PMID: 37156883 PMCID: PMC10167368 DOI: 10.1038/s42004-023-00889-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2022] [Accepted: 04/19/2023] [Indexed: 05/10/2023] Open
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Adsorption hysteresis is a phenomenon related to phase transitions that can impact applications such as gas storage and separations in porous materials. Computational approaches can greatly facilitate the understanding of phase transitions and phase equilibria in porous materials. In this work, adsorption isotherms for methane, ethane, propane, and n-hexane were calculated from atomistic grand canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulations in a metal-organic framework having both micropores and mesopores to better understand hysteresis and phase equilibria between connected pores of different size and the external bulk fluid. At low temperatures, the calculated isotherms exhibit sharp steps accompanied by hysteresis. As a complementary simulation method, canonical (NVT) ensemble simulations with Widom test particle insertions are demonstrated to provide additional information about these systems. The NVT+Widom simulations provide the full van der Waals loop associated with the sharp steps and hysteresis, including the locations of the spinodal points and points within the metastable and unstable regions that are inaccessible to GCMC simulations. The simulations provide molecular-level insight into pore filling and equilibria between high- and low-density states within individual pores. The effect of framework flexibility on adsorption hysteresis is also investigated for methane in IRMOF-1.
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- Zhao Li
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.
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Papchenko K, Ricci E, De Angelis MG. Modelling across Multiple Scales to Design Biopolymer Membranes for Sustainable Gas Separations: 1—Atomistic Approach. Polymers (Basel) 2023; 15:polym15071805. [PMID: 37050418 PMCID: PMC10097394 DOI: 10.3390/polym15071805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2023] [Revised: 03/28/2023] [Accepted: 04/04/2023] [Indexed: 04/08/2023] Open
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In this work, we assessed the CO2 and CH4 sorption and transport in copolymers of 3-hydroxybutyrate and 3-hydroxyvalerate (PHBV), which showed good CO2 capture potential in our previous papers, thanks to their good solubility–selectivity, and are potential biodegradable alternatives to standard membrane-separation materials. Experimental tests were carried out on a commercial material containing 8% of 3-hydroxyvalerate (HV), while molecular modelling was used to screen the performance of the copolymers across the entire composition range by simulating structures with 0%, 8%, 60%, and 100% HV, with the aim to provide a guide for the selection of the membrane material. The polymers were simulated using molecular dynamics (MD) models and validated against experimental density, solubility parameters, and X-ray diffraction. The CO2/CH4 solubility–selectivity predicted by the Widom insertion method is in good agreement with experimental data, while the diffusivity–selectivity obtained via mean square displacement is somewhat overestimated. Overall, simulations indicate promising behaviour for the homopolymer containing 100% of HV. In part 2 of this series of papers, we will investigate the same biomaterials using a macroscopic model for polymers and compare the accuracy and performance of the two approaches.
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- Kseniya Papchenko
- Institute for Materials and Processes, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Sanderson Building, Robert Stevenson Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FB, UK
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- Department of Civil, Chemical Environmental and Materials Engineering, DICAM, University of Bologna, Via Terracini 28, 40131 Bologna, Italy
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- Institute for Materials and Processes, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Sanderson Building, Robert Stevenson Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FB, UK
- National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology INSTM, Via G. Giusti, 58100 Firenze, Italy
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Ricci E, Vergadou N. Integrating Machine Learning in the Coarse-Grained Molecular Simulation of Polymers. J Phys Chem B 2023; 127:2302-2322. [PMID: 36888553 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c06354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/09/2023]
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Machine learning (ML) is having an increasing impact on the physical sciences, engineering, and technology and its integration into molecular simulation frameworks holds great potential to expand their scope of applicability to complex materials and facilitate fundamental knowledge and reliable property predictions, contributing to the development of efficient materials design routes. The application of ML in materials informatics in general, and polymer informatics in particular, has led to interesting results, however great untapped potential lies in the integration of ML techniques into the multiscale molecular simulation methods for the study of macromolecular systems, specifically in the context of Coarse Grained (CG) simulations. In this Perspective, we aim at presenting the pioneering recent research efforts in this direction and discussing how these new ML-based techniques can contribute to critical aspects of the development of multiscale molecular simulation methods for bulk complex chemical systems, especially polymers. Prerequisites for the implementation of such ML-integrated methods and open challenges that need to be met toward the development of general systematic ML-based coarse graining schemes for polymers are discussed.
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- Eleonora Ricci
- Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", GR-15341 Agia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece
- Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", GR-15341 Agia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece
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- Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", GR-15341 Agia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece
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Scherillo G, Mensitieri G, Baldanza A, Loianno V, Musto P, Pannico M, Correa A, De Nicola A, Milano G. Weak Interactions between Poly(ether imide) and Carbon Dioxide: A Multiscale Investigation Combining Experiments, Theory, and Simulations. Macromolecules 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c01382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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- Giuseppe Scherillo
- Department of Materials and Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, P.le Tecchio 80, 80125, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Materials and Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, P.le Tecchio 80, 80125, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Materials and Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, P.le Tecchio 80, 80125, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Materials and Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, P.le Tecchio 80, 80125, Naples, Italy
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- Institute for Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials, National Research Council of Italy, Via Campi Flegrei, 34, 80078Pozzuoli (NA), Italy
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- Institute for Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials, National Research Council of Italy, Via Campi Flegrei, 34, 80078Pozzuoli (NA), Italy
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- Department of Chemical Science, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cintia 21, 80126Napoli, Italy
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- Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Via largo San Marcellino 10, 80138Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Materials and Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, P.le Tecchio 80, 80125, Naples, Italy
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Chen F, Liu F, Du X. Molecular dynamics simulation of crosslinking process and mechanical properties of epoxy under the accelerator. J Appl Polym Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/app.53302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- Fengjun Chen
- National Engineering Research Center for High Efficiency Grinding Hunan University Changsha China
- College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering Hunan University Changsha China
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- National Engineering Research Center for High Efficiency Grinding Hunan University Changsha China
- College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering Hunan University Changsha China
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- National Engineering Research Center for High Efficiency Grinding Hunan University Changsha China
- College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering Hunan University Changsha China
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Ricci E, Minelli M, De Angelis MG. Modelling Sorption and Transport of Gases in Polymeric Membranes across Different Scales: A Review. MEMBRANES 2022; 12:membranes12090857. [PMID: 36135877 PMCID: PMC9502097 DOI: 10.3390/membranes12090857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2022] [Revised: 08/24/2022] [Accepted: 08/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Professor Giulio C. Sarti has provided outstanding contributions to the modelling of fluid sorption and transport in polymeric materials, with a special eye on industrial applications such as membrane separation, due to his Chemical Engineering background. He was the co-creator of innovative theories such as the Non-Equilibrium Theory for Glassy Polymers (NET-GP), a flexible tool to estimate the solubility of pure and mixed fluids in a wide range of polymers, and of the Standard Transport Model (STM) for estimating membrane permeability and selectivity. In this review, inspired by his rigorous and original approach to representing membrane fundamentals, we provide an overview of the most significant and up-to-date modeling tools available to estimate the main properties governing polymeric membranes in fluid separation, namely solubility and diffusivity. The paper is not meant to be comprehensive, but it focuses on those contributions that are most relevant or that show the potential to be relevant in the future. We do not restrict our view to the field of macroscopic modelling, which was the main playground of professor Sarti, but also devote our attention to Molecular and Multiscale Hierarchical Modeling. This work proposes a critical evaluation of the different approaches considered, along with their limitations and potentiality.
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- Eleonora Ricci
- Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM), Alma Mater Studiorum—University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM), Alma Mater Studiorum—University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy
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- Institute for Materials and Processes, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FB, UK
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Morgan WJ, Anstine DM, Colina CM. Temperature Effects in Flexible Adsorption Processes for Amorphous Microporous Polymers. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:6354-6365. [PMID: 35969816 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c04543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A collection of atomistic molecular simulations is reported that illustrate the impact of adsorption temperature on species uptake and adsorbate-induced structural rearrangement for amorphous polymers of intrinsic microporosity. Temperature-sensitive structural rearrangement is evaluated by contrasting two methods: standard grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations using a rigid framework approximation and a combined Monte Carlo/molecular dynamics approach that fully incorporates framework flexibility. We report single-component gas phase adsorption isotherms for CH4, C2H4, C2H6, C3H6, C3H8, and CO2 across a temperature range of 250-400 K for models of an archetypal polymer of intrinsic microporosity, PIM-1. A quadratic model is presented that captures two main mechanisms of temperature-dependent adsorption-induced deformation of PIM-1 up to a relative swelling of 1.15: thermal expansion and an increased propensity to swell as a function of species uptake. Two case studies are reported that highlight the critical role of operating temperature in industrial storage and separation applications. The first study focuses on methane storage and delivery applications using a pressure-temperature swing adsorption application (PTSA). We demonstrate that larger working capacities are accompanied by increased volumetric strain between adsorption-desorption steps. The second case study considers PIM-1 as an adsorbent to separate an exemplar ternary syngas mixture at operating temperatures ranging 300-550 K. A temperature threshold of ∼400 K is identified, beyond which adsorption-induced PIM-1 swelling is negligible and the solubility selectivity-loading curve transitions to exhibiting a nearly linear relationship.
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- Wesley J Morgan
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States.,George and Josephine Butler Polymer Research Laboratory, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States
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- George and Josephine Butler Polymer Research Laboratory, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States.,Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States
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- George and Josephine Butler Polymer Research Laboratory, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States.,Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States.,Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States
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Kiran E, Sarver JA, Hassler JC. Solubility and Diffusivity of CO2 and N2 in Polymers and Polymer Swelling, Glass Transition, Melting, and Crystallization at High Pressure. A Critical Review and Perspectives on Experimental Methods, Data, and Modeling. J Supercrit Fluids 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.supflu.2021.105378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Zhao Y, Dong Y, Guo Y, Huo F, Yan F, He H. Recent progress of green sorbents-based technologies for low concentration CO2 capture. Chin J Chem Eng 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cjche.2020.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Haurat M, Dumon M. Amorphous Polymers' Foaming and Blends with Organic Foaming-Aid Structured Additives in Supercritical CO 2, a Way to Fabricate Porous Polymers from Macro to Nano Porosities in Batch or Continuous Processes. Molecules 2020; 25:E5320. [PMID: 33202668 PMCID: PMC7696767 DOI: 10.3390/molecules25225320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2020] [Revised: 11/02/2020] [Accepted: 11/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Organic polymers can be made porous via continuous or discontinuous expansion processes in scCO2. The resulting foams properties are controlled by the interplay of three groups of parameters: (i) Chemical, (ii) physico-chemical, and (iii) technological/process that are explained in this paper. The advantages and drawbacks of continuous (extrusion, injection foaming) or discontinuous (batch foaming) foaming processes in scCO2, will be discussed in this article; especially for micro or nano cellular polymers. Indeed, a challenge is to reduce both specific mass (e.g., ρ < 100 kg·m-3) and cell size (e.g., average pore diameter ϕaveragepores < 100 nm). Then a particular system where small "objects" (coreshells CS, block copolymer MAM) are perfectly dispersed at a micrometric to nanometric scale in poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) will be presented. Such "additives", considered as foaming aids, are aimed at "regulating" the foaming and lowering the pore size and/or density of PMMA based foams. Differences between these additives will be shown. Finally, in a PMMA/20 wt% MAM blend, via a quasi one-step batch foaming, a "porous to nonporous" transition is observed in thick samples. A lower limit of pore size (around 50 nm) seems to arise.
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- Margaux Haurat
- Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques (LCPO), UMR 5629, Bordeaux INP/ENSCBP, University Bordeaux, CNRS, 16 Avenue Pey-Berland, CEDEX, F-33607 Pessac, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques (LCPO), UMR 5629, Bordeaux INP/ENSCBP, University Bordeaux, CNRS, 16 Avenue Pey-Berland, CEDEX, F-33607 Pessac, France
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Anstine DM, Colina CM. Sorption‐induced
polymer rearrangement: approaches from molecular modeling. POLYM INT 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/pi.6124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Dylan M Anstine
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Florida Gainesville FL USA
- George & Josephine Butler Polymer Research Laboratory University of Florida Gainesville FL USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Florida Gainesville FL USA
- George & Josephine Butler Polymer Research Laboratory University of Florida Gainesville FL USA
- Department of Chemistry University of Florida Gainesville FL USA
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