MePCMs (microencapsulated phase change materials) with covalently bonded SiO2/polymer hybrid as shell were fabricated via Pickering emulsion polymerization stabilized solely by organically-modified SiO2 particles. Morphology and core–shell structure of these microcapsules were observed by...

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The stability limits of the homogeneous state of melts of rod–coil RC, RC2, and CRC polydisperse block copolymers have been investigated in the framework of the weak segregation theory. It was assumed that the number of units in either the rod-like R or the flexible C block is a random...

The resistivity as a function of temperature for high temperature superconductors is very unusual and, despite its importance, lacks a unified theoretical explanation. It is linear with the temperature for overdoped compounds but it falls more quickly as the doping level decreases. The...

The separatrices between the healthy and endemic states in the bistable regime and issues related to determining the critical infected fraction i(crit) in a recently proposed epidemic model on an adaptive network are analyzed. The epidemic follows the susceptible–infected–susceptible (SIS)...

We have investigated the domain growth dynamics in vesicles composed of BSM/DOPC/cholesterol using fluorescence microscopy. A ternary mixture of equimolar BSM, DOPC, and cholesterol was employed, and two fluorescent dyes were added for comparison studies. We found that in the early stage the...