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Morphology of a thermally stable small molecule OPV blend comprising a liquid crystalline donor and fullerene acceptor

June 4, 2019
Author(s)
Alexander J. Bourque, Sebastian Engmann, Allison Fuster, Chad R. Snyder, Lee J. Richter, Paul B. Geraghty, David J. Jones
Recently organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices comprising the small molecule liquid-crystalline donor, benzodithiophene-quaterthiophene-rhodanine (BQR), were demonstrated to achieve high performance when thermally processed, avoiding the need for slow-drying

Accelerated Weathering Parameters for Some Aromatic Engineering Thermoplastics

May 24, 2019
Author(s)
Li Piin Sung, James E. Pickett, Olga Kuvshinnikova, Brett Ermi
Samples of polycarbonate (PC), poly(butylene terephthalate) (PBT), a PC/PBT blend, and poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) (SAN), all containing 3 % TiO2 (by mass), were exposed in the NIST (National Institutes of Standards and Technology) SPHERE (Simulated

Controlled Growth of Polyamide Films atop Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Hydrogels using Gel- Liquid Interfacial Polymerization

May 22, 2019
Author(s)
Mengyuan Wang, Christopher Stafford, Lewis M. Cox, Adrienne K. Blevins, Masoud Aghajani, Jason Killgore, Yifu Ding
Interfacially polymerized polyamide (PA) layers dictate the permselective performance of thin film composite (TFC) membranes. Extensive effort has been focused on understanding and ultimately controlling the structure and morphology of the PA layers on

Nanoscale Particle Motion Reveals Polymer Mobility Gradient in Nanocomposites

May 21, 2019
Author(s)
Erkan Senses, Suresh Narayanan, Antonio Faraone
Polymer mobility near nanoparticle surfaces has been extensively discussed, however, direct experimental observation in the nanocomposite melts has been a difficult task. Here, by taking advantage of large dynamical asymmetry between miscible matrix and

Stable Postfullerene Solar Cells via Direct C-H Arylation Polymerization. Morphology-Performance Relationships

May 16, 2019
Author(s)
Subhrangsu Mukherjee, Thomas Aldrich, Weigang Zhu, Lee J. Richter, Eliot Gann, Dean DeLongchamp, Antonio Facchetti, Ferdinand Melkonyan, Tobin Marks
The scope of the environmentally benign direct C-H arylation polymerization (DARP) process is validated and significantly extended in the synthesis of a high-performance benzodithiophene- based copolymer series, PBDT(Ar)-FTTE, with previously untested and

Superionic UO2: A Model Anharmonic Crystalline Material

May 7, 2019
Author(s)
Jack F. Douglas, Hao Zhang, Xinyi Wang, Alexandros Chremos
Crystalline materials at elevated temperatures and pressures can exhibit properties more reminiscent of simple liquids than ideal crystalline materials, an attribute making these materials useful in diverse applications. Superionic crystalline materials

Understanding the Static Interfacial Polymer Layer by Exploring the Dispersion States of Nanocomposites

May 5, 2019
Author(s)
Anne-Caroline Genix, Vera Bocharova, Bobby Carroll, Michelle Lehmann, Tomonori Saito, Susan T. Krueger, Lilin He, Philippe Dieudonne-George, Alexei P. Sokolov, Julian Oberdisse
The dynamic and static properties of the interfacial region between polymer and nanoparticles have wide-ranging consequences on performances of nanomaterials. The thickness and density of the static layer are particularly difficult to assess experimentally

Magnetic Order Effects on the Electronic Structure of KMMnSd2^ (M=Cu,Li) with the ThCr 2 Si 2 -Type Structure

April 30, 2019
Author(s)
Austin Virtue, Xiuquan Zhou, Brandon Wilfong, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Keith Taddei, Peter Zavalij, Limin Wang, Efrain E. Rodriguez
We propose three magnetic structures for KCuMnS^26 with the ThCr 2Si 2-type structure. Powder samples of KCuMnS 2 and KLiMnS 2 were prepared for structural studies and magnetization measurements. In both compounds, the Mn 2+ site is alloyed by either Cu +

Nanomechanics of cellulose deformation reveal molecular defects that facilitate natural deconstruction

April 29, 2019
Author(s)
Peter Ciesielski, Ryan Wagner, Vivek Bharadwaj, Jason Killgore, Ashutosh Mittal, Gregg Beckham, Stephen Decker, Michael Himmel, Michael Crowley
Technologies surrounding utilization and processing of cellulosic materials have been important to human society for millennia. As with many materials, achieving a molecular-level understanding of the formation, characteristics, and functionality of

Protocols for tensile testing flexible unidirectional composite laminates

April 27, 2019
Author(s)
Amy E. Engelbrecht-Wiggans, Ajay Krishnamurthy, Faraz A. Burni, William A. Osborn, Amanda L. Forster
Many body armor designs incorporate unidirectional (UD) laminates. UD laminates are constructed of thin layers of high performance yarns where the yarns in each layer are oriented parallel to each other and held in place using binder resins and thin

Energy Renormalization for Coarse-Graining Polymers Having Different Segmental Structures

April 19, 2019
Author(s)
Jack F. Douglas, Wenjie Xia, Nitin K. Hansoge, Wen-Sheng Xu, Sinan Keten, Frederick R. Phelan Jr.
We apply the recently developed energy renormalization (ER) method to coarse-graining representative polymer melts having a relatively low, intermediate and high degree of glass fragility, i.e., polybutadiene, polystyrene, and polycarbonate, respectively

Advancing and Accelerating Materials Innovation: New Frontiers for the Materials Genome Initiative

April 5, 2019
Author(s)
Juan J. DePablo, Nicholas E. Jackson, Michael Webb, Long-Qing Chen, Joel Moore, Dane Morgan, Tresa M. Pollock, Darrell G. Schlom, Eric Toberer, James Analytis, Ismalia Dabo, Dean DeLongchamp, Fiete Gregory, Gregory Grason, Geoffroy Hautier, Yifei Mo, Krishna Rajan, Evan Reed, Efrain E. Rodriguez, Vladan Stevanovic, Jin Suntivich, Katsuo Thornton, Ji-Cheng Zhao
The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) advanced a new paradigm for materials discovery, namely that the pace of materials discovery could be accelerated via complementary efforts in theory, computation, and experiment. Along with numerous successes, new

Probing the Participation of Oxygen Redox in the Electrochemical Cycling of Li-Rich Li2IrO3

March 25, 2019
Author(s)
Eric L. Shirley, John T. Vinson, Liang Li, Maria K. Chan, Joong S. Park, Eungje Lee, John W. Freeland, Zhenpeng Yao, Fernando Castro, Timothy T. Fister, Christopher M. Wolverton, Michael Thackeray
To exploit extra capacity beyond the traditionally postulated transition metal redox in Li-ion batteries, it is imperative to understand the exact role of oxygen in the charge compensation, i.e., what triggers the electron occupation change in oxygen and

Microporous Metal-Organic Framework with Dual Functionalities for Efficient Separation of Acetylene from Light Hydrocarbon Mixtures

March 14, 2019
Author(s)
Hao Li, Libo Li, Rui-Biao Lin, Giorgio Ramirez, Wei Zhou, Rajamani Krishna, Zhangjing Zhang, Shengchang Xiang, Banglin Chen
Separating acetylene from light hydrocarbon mixtures like ethylene is a very important process for downstream industrial applications. Herein, we report a new MOF [CuL 2(SiF 6)](UTSA-220, L = 1E,2E)-1,2-bis(pyridin-4-ylmethylene)hydrazine) with dual

Pore Space Partition within a Metal-Organic Framework for Highly Efficient C 2 H 2 /CO 2 Separation

March 14, 2019
Author(s)
Yingxiang Ye, Zhenlin Ma, Rui-Biao Lin, Rajamani Krishna, Wei Zhou, Quanjie Lin, Zhangjing Zhang, Shengchang Xiang, Banglin Chen
The pore space partition (PSP) approach has been employed to realize a novel porous MOF (FJU-90) with dual functionalities for the challenging C 2H 2/CO 2 separation under ambient conditions. By virtue of a triangular ligand (Tripp = 2,4,6-tris-(4-pyridyl

ELECTRON ENERGY-LOSS SPECTROSCOPY AND IMAGING

March 12, 2019
Author(s)
Vladimir P. Oleshko
This article describes electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS), energy-filtering transmission electron microscopy (EFTEM) and electron spectroscopic diffraction (ESD) in a transmission electron microscope (TEM) or in a scanning transmission electron
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