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Increased Flexibility in Polyimide Aerogels Using Aliphatic Spacers in the Polymer Backbone by Pantoja, Marcos, Boynton, Nicholas, Cavicchi, Kevin A, Dosa, Bushara, Cashman, Jessica L, Meador, Mary Ann B

“…Polyimide aerogels are mechanically strong porous solids with high surface area, low density, and dielectric constants close to 1, making them ideal materials…”
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Perspective: Ionomer Research and Applications by Zhang, Longhe, Brostowitz, Nicole R., Cavicchi, Kevin A., Weiss, R. A.

“…Ionomers are polymers with bonded ionic species that are used under conditions where the salt groups are in a condensed state. This Feature Article discusses…”
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Unidirectional Alignment of Block Copolymer Films Induced by Expansion of a Permeable Elastomer during Solvent Vapor Annealing by Qiang, Zhe, Zhang, Longhe, Stein, Gila E, Cavicchi, Kevin A, Vogt, Bryan D

“…One challenge associated with the utilization of block copolymers in nanotechnology is the difficulties associated with alignment and orientation of the…”
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Solvent Annealed Thin Films of Asymmetric Polyisoprene−Polylactide Diblock Copolymers by Cavicchi, Kevin A, Russell, Thomas P

“…A poly(isoprene-b-lactide) (PI-b-PLA) polymer forming cylinders of PLA in a PI matrix was examined as a polymer system to generate nanostructured vertical…”
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Tailor-Made Fluorinated Copolymer/Clay Nanocomposite by Cationic RAFT Assisted Pickering Miniemulsion Polymerization by Chakrabarty, Arindam, Zhang, Longhe, Cavicchi, Kevin A, Weiss, R. A, Singha, Nikhil K

“…Fluorinated polymers in emulsion find enormous applications in hydrophobic surface coating. Currently, lots of efforts are being made to develop specialty…”
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Synthesis and Characterization of a Poly(styrene-block-methylacrylate-random-octadecylacrylate-block-styrene) Shape Memory ABA Triblock Copolymer by Fei, Pengzhan, Cavicchi, Kevin A

“…A new shape memory polymer (SMP) was prepared from an ABA triblock copolymer with polystyrene (PS) end blocks and a random copolymer midblock of…”
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Anisotropic Mechanical Properties of Aligned Polystyrene-block-polydimethylsiloxane Thin Films by Ye, Changhuai, Singh, Gurpreet, Wadley, Maurice L, Karim, Alamgir, Cavicchi, Kevin A, Vogt, Bryan D

“…Mechanical properties of multicomponent polymers such as block copolymers (BCP) are critical to their utilization in thin film applications, yet the effect of…”
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Evolution in surface morphology during rapid microwave annealing of PS-b-PMMA thin films by Qiang, Zhe, Ye, Changhuai, Lin, Kehua, Becker, Matthew L., Cavicchi, Kevin A., Vogt, Bryan D.

“…ABSTRACT Microwave annealing enables rapid (60 s) ordering and orientation of block copolymer films. The developed morphology in polystyrene‐block‐poly(methyl…”
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Systematic Modification of the Glass Transition Temperature of Ion-Pair Comonomer Based Polyelectrolytes and Ionomers by Copolymerization with a Chemically Similar Cationic Monomer by Deng, Guodong, Schoch, Timothy D, Cavicchi, Kevin A

“…Ion-pair comonomers (IPCs) where both the anion and cation contain polymerizable functional groups offer a route to prepare polyampholyte, ion-containing…”
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Dynamical Correlations for Statistical Copolymers from High-Throughput Broad-Band Dielectric Spectroscopy by Zhang, Xiao, Zhao, Jing, Ye, Changhuai, Lai, Tzu-Yu, Snyder, Chad R, Karim, Alamgir, Cavicchi, Kevin A, Simmons, David S

“…Broad-band dielectric spectroscopy (BDS) provides a powerful method of characterizing relaxation dynamics in diverse materials. Here we describe and employ a…”
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Facile non-lithographic route to highly aligned silica nanopatterns using unidirectionally aligned polystyrene-block-polydimethylsiloxane films by Qiang, Zhe, Wadley, Maurice L., Vogt, Bryan D., Cavicchi, Kevin A.

“…ABSTRACT Thin films (monolayer and bilayer) of cylinder forming polystyrene‐block‐polydimethylsiloxane (PS‐b‐PDMS) were shear aligned by the swelling and…”
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Fused Filament Fabrication 4D Printing of a Highly Extensible, Self-Healing, Shape Memory Elastomer Based on Thermoplastic Polymer Blends by Peng, Bangan, Yang, Yunchong, Ju, Tianxiong, Cavicchi, Kevin A

“…A polymer blend with high extensibility, exhibiting both shape memory and self-healing, was 4D printed using a low-cost fused filament fabrication (FFF, or…”
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Structure–Property Relationships of Shape Memory, Semicrystalline Polymers Fabricated by In Situ Polymerization and Crosslinking of Octadecyl Acrylate/Polybutadiene Blends by Basak, Sayan, Cavicchi, Kevin A.

“…The current work presents the study of a semicrystalline, shape memory polymer synthesized by simultaneous free radical polymerization and crosslinking in a…”
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Solvent annealing thin films of poly(isoprene- b-lactide) by Cavicchi, Kevin A., Berthiaume, Keith J., Russell, Thomas P.

“…The use of solvent annealing to control the microdomain orientation and long-range ordering in poly(isoprene- b- d, l-lactide) thin films was investigated…”
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Impact of Homopolymer Pore Expander on the Morphology of Mesoporous Carbon Films Using Organic–Organic Self-Assembly by Labiano, Alpha, Dai, Mingzhi, Young, Wen-Shiue, Stein, Gila E, Cavicchi, Kevin A, Epps, Thomas H, Vogt, Bryan D

“…Soft templated mesoporous carbon films (ca. 60 nm thick) are fabricated by the cooperative assembly of poly(styrene-block-ethylene oxide) (PS-b-PEO) with…”
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Shape memory ionomers by Cavicchi, Kevin A., Pantoja, Marcos, Cakmak, Miko

“…This review is focused on the use of ionomers in shape memory polymers. Ionomers are polymers that contain less than ∼15% ionic groups. The incompatibility…”
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Sulfonation Distribution in Sulfonated Polystyrene Ionomers Measured by MALDI-ToF MS by Zhang, Longhe, Katzenmeyer, Bryan C, Cavicchi, Kevin A, Weiss, R. A, Wesdemiotis, Chrys

“…Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-ToF MS) was used to quantify the sulfonation level and sulfonation…”
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Shape Memory Polymers from Blends of Elastomers and Small Molecule Additives by Cavicchi, Kevin A.

“…Summary Shape memory polymers are useful stimuli‐responsive functional materials. This article reviews the fabrication of shape memory polymers through the…”
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Tuning the Viscoelastic Properties of Poly(n‑butyl acrylate) Ionomer Networks through the Use of Ion-Pair Comonomers by Deng, Guodong, Cavicchi, Kevin A

“…An organic ion-pair comonomer (IPC) based on anionic and cationic styrenic monomers was synthesized and copolymerized with n-butyl acrylate (BA) by reversible…”
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Orientationally Controlled Nanoporous Cylindrical Domains in Polystyrene-b-poly(ferrocenylethylmethylsilane) Block Copolymer Films by Rider, David A, Cavicchi, Kevin A, Vanderark, Lawrence, Russell, Thomas P, Manners, Ian

“…The self-assembly of thin films of organometallic cylinder-forming amorphous polystyrene-block-polyferrocenylsilane diblock copolymers is described. By varying…”
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