Tan Zhang

Journal Article Reaction Chemistry and Engineering · May 7, 2024 Acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) copolymers were synthesized in emulsions and silica-containing emulsion gels at 20, 40, and 60 °C. The room-temperature polymerization was achieved by decomposing 2,2′-azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) at oil-water interfa ... Full text Cite

Synthesis of Polymers with Narrow Molecular Mass Distribution through Interface-Initiated Room-Temperature Polymerization in Emulsion Gels.

Journal Article Polymers · October 2023 Homopolymers of n-butyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate, styrene, and their random copolymers were prepared via interface-initiated polymerization of emulsion gels at 20 °C. The polymerization was conducted in a free radical polymerization manner without ine ... Full text Cite

Eco-Friendly Room-Temperature Polymerization in Emulsions and Beyond

Journal Article Polymer Reviews · January 1, 2023 This review highlights the effectiveness and robust nature of eco-friendly room-temperature polymerization initiated in emulsions, and some of its applications in polymer and materials science. The polymerization in emulsions initiated through a thermal or ... Full text Cite

Low Temperature, in Situ Polymerization of Vinyl Acetate in Silica Containing Emulsion Gels

Journal Article Advances in Polymer Technology · January 1, 2023 Vinyl acetate (VAc) was polymerized to about 90% conversion in 9 h at 40°C from the colloidal microstructure of the VAc/fumed silica/cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) system. The glass transition (Tg) of poly(vinyl acetate) (PVAc) polymerized in these ... Full text Cite

Innovations Toward the Valorization of Plastics Waste

Journal Article Annual Review of Materials Research · July 1, 2022 Plastics are an extremely important class of materials that are prevalent in all facets of society; however, their widespread use over time, combined with limited end-of-life strategies, has led to increasing levels of waste accumulation. Although ... Full text Cite

Preparation of thermally conductive but electrically insulated polypropylene containing copper nanowire

Journal Article Polymer · November 30, 2021 The ever-increasing demand for higher power density and smaller device size of modern electronics has led to urgent development of highly efficient thermal management material systems. In this work, thermally conductive polypropylene/copper nanowire (PP/Cu ... Full text Cite

Evaluation of 1-dimensional nanomaterials release during electrospinning and thermogravimetric analysis.

Journal Article Indoor air · November 2021 The growing research interests with engineered nanomaterials in academic laboratories and manufacturing facilities pose potential safety risks to students and workers. New nanoparticle substances, compositions, and processing approaches are developed regul ... Full text Cite

Experimental observation and finite element method modeling on scratch-induced delamination of multilayer polymeric structures

Journal Article Polymer Engineering and Science · June 1, 2021 Scratches that result in delamination are common in multilayer polymeric laminates and coatings. In this study, the adhesive failure among a set of model double-layer epoxy coatings was experimentally investigated and numerically analyzed using the finite ... Full text Cite

High dielectric constant epoxy nanocomposites based on metal organic frameworks decorated multi-walled carbon nanotubes

Journal Article Polymer · October 20, 2020 The interfacial region between nanofillers and polymer matrix plays a crucial role in determining the dielectric and mechanical properties of dielectric nanocomposites. A new strategy using metal–organic-framework (MOF) as a modifier to decorate multi-wall ... Full text Cite

Fabrication of Light-Weight and Highly Conductive Copper–Carbon Nanotube Core–Shell Fibers Through Interface Design

Journal Article Advanced Materials Interfaces · October 1, 2020 Metal-carbon nanotube (CNT) hybrid fibers are emerging materials for light-weight conductors that can replace common metallic conductors. One of the main challenges to their development is the poor affinity between CNT and metals. In this work, a new appro ... Full text Cite

Ultralong Electrospun Copper-Carbon Nanotube Composite Fibers for Transparent Conductive Electrodes with High Operational Stability

Journal Article ACS Applied Electronic Materials · September 22, 2020 Metal nanowire networks are promising materials to replace metal oxide films in transparent conductive electrodes (TCE), but they suffer from low stability in actual working conditions. Here, carbon nanotube/copper (CNT/Cu) composite fibers were fabricated ... Full text Cite

Copper(I)-alkylamine mediated synthesis of copper nanowires.

Journal Article Nanoscale · August 2020 Formation of a Cu(i)-alkylamine complex is found to be the key step for Cu(ii) ions to reduce to Cu(0) in the presence of glucose. Also, alkylamines in Cu nanowire synthesis serve triple roles as a reducing, complexation and capping agent. Alkylamines redu ... Full text Cite

Tuning the composition and morphology of carbon nanotube-copper interface

Journal Article Carbon · February 1, 2020 Carbon nanotube (CNT)-copper nanocomposites are promising materials for light-weight high-ampacity conductors. The key issue in hybridization of CNT and metal is creating a strong bonding between them. This requires proper modification of the CNT surface. ... Full text Cite

Solution-Processable Oxidation-Resistant Copper Nanowires Decorated with Alkyl Ligands

Journal Article ACS Applied Nano Materials · December 27, 2019 Alkyl ligands with an amine or thiol headgroup have been chosen to investigate their effectiveness in preventing copper nanowire (Cu NW) oxidation in hydrothermal and hygrothermal environments. Ligand desorption has been found to be the key reason for Cu N ... Full text Cite

Non-Solvent Fractionation of Lignin Enhances Carbon Fiber Performance.

Journal Article ChemSusChem · July 2019 Even though lignin carbon fiber has been sought after for several decades, the poor mechanical performance remains to be a major barrier for commercial applications. The low mechanical performance is attributed to the heterogeneity of lignin polymer. Recen ... Full text Cite

Synthesis of oxidation-resistant electrochemical-active copper nanowires using phenylenediamine isomers

Journal Article Materials and Design · January 15, 2019 Phenylenediamine (PDA) was chosen as a coordinating, reducing, and capping agent to effectively direct growth and protect against oxidation of Cu nanowires (Cu NWs) in an aqueous solution. PDA was found to reduce Cu (II) to Cu (I) at room temperature, and ... Full text Cite

Porous SnO₂-Cu _x O nanocomposite thin film on carbon nanotubes as electrodes for high performance supercapacitors.

Journal Article Nanotechnology · January 2019 Metal oxides are promising materials for supercapacitors due to their high theoretical capacitance. However, their poor electrical conductivity is a major challenge. Hybridization with conductive nanostructured carbon-based materials such as carbon nanotub ... Full text Cite

Dynamics of Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide Head Groups in Bulk by Solid-State Deuterium NMR Spectroscopy.

Journal Article Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · September 2018 Variable temperature, solid-state deuterium (2H) NMR spectroscopy has been used to probe the rather complex head group dynamics of the surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium bromide- d9 (CTAB- d9) in bulk. Heating and cooling ru ... Full text Cite

Structural studies of thermally stable, combustion-resistant polymer composites

Journal Article Polymer Journal · October 1, 2017 Composites of the industrially important polymer, poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), were prepared by free-radical polymerization of MMA with varying amounts (1-30 wt. %) of sodium dioctylsulfosuccinate (Aerosol OT or AOT) surfactant added to the reaction m ... Full text Cite

Cationic surfactant blocks radical-inhibiting sites on silica.

Journal Article Journal of colloid and interface science · October 2017 Surfactant-catalyzed room-temperature radical polymerization of methyl methacrylate (MMA) was conducted in the presence of fumed silica nanoparticles and water. Three types of surfactants, cationic (CTAB), nonionic (Triton X-100) or anionic (SDS), were use ... Full text Cite

1D copper nanowires for flexible printable electronics and high ampacity wires.

Journal Article Nanoscale · September 2017 This paper addresses the synthesis and a detailed electrical analysis of individual copper nanowires (CuNWs). One dimensional CuNWs are chemically grown using bromide ions (Br-) as a co-capping agent. By partially replacing alkyl amines with Br< ... Full text Cite

Low-temperature polymerization of methyl methacrylate emulsion gels through surfactant catalysis.

Journal Article Journal of colloid and interface science · January 2016 Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)/silica/cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) composites were prepared through surfactant catalyzed free radical polymerizations at 40 °C. Fumed silica particles controlled the morphology of the polymeric composites producin ... Full text Cite

PS/CTAB/silica composites from room temperature polymerization of high internal phase emulsion gels.

Journal Article Journal of colloid and interface science · August 2015 Polystyrene (PS)/cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB)/silica composites were prepared by CTAB-catalyzed in-situ polymerization of high internal phase emulsion gels (HIPE gels) at room temperature. The room temperature approach in HIPE gels yielded mono-di ... Full text Cite

Effect of silica on the structure of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide

Journal Article Journal of Physical Chemistry C · May 31, 2012 The association structures of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) in the presence of fumed silica nanoparticles were studied by temperature-modulated differential scanning calorimetry (TMDSC), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), Fourier transform infrared ... Full text Cite

Structure and mechanical properties of iPP/sPP/mica blends

Journal Article Gaofenzi Cailiao Kexue Yu Gongcheng/Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering · August 1, 2010 The influence of the size of mica and different processing methods on the mechanical properties of isotactic polypropylene (iPP)/syndiotactic polypropylene (sPP)/mica blends was studied. The results show that (1) the yield strength of iPP/sPP/mica blends i ... Cite

Effect of entropy penalty on selective distribution of aluminum borate whiskers in isotactic polypropylene (iPP)/syndiotactic polypropylene (sPP) blends

Journal Article Polymer · June 19, 2009 The selective distribution of aluminum borate whisker in isotactic polypropylene (iPP)/syndiotactic polypropylene (sPP) blends was studied. For iPP/sPP/whisker composites, whiskers are distributed in iPP phase, which follow the theory of interfacial tensio ... Full text Cite