The present invention is to provide a cell culture substrate including a block polymer including a segment having a lower critical solution temperature and a hydrophobic segment, the cell culture substrate further including an adhesive matrix, in which the adhesive matrix is an extracellular matrix and/or an adhesive synthetic matrix. Furthermore, the invention is to provide a cell culture substrate in which the extracellular matrix is at least one selected from laminin, fibronectin, vitronectin, cadherin, and fragments thereof, and/or the adhesive synthetic matrix is poly[2-(methacryloyloxy)ethyl dimethyl-(3-sulfopropyl) ammonium hydroxide] or an oligopeptide-carrying polymer.

The present invention is to provide a cell culture substrate including a block polymer including a segment having a lower critical solution temperature and a hydrophobic segment, the cell culture substrate further including an adhesive matrix, in which the adhesive matrix is an extracellular matrix and/or an adhesive synthetic matrix. Furthermore, the invention is to provide a cell culture substrate in which the extracellular matrix is at least one selected from laminin, fibronectin, vitronectin, cadherin, and fragments thereof, and/or the adhesive synthetic matrix is poly[2-(methacryloyloxy)ethyl dimethyl-(3-sulfopropyl) ammonium hydroxide] or an oligopeptide-carrying polymer.

There is described an aqueous coating composition, the aqueous coating composition comprising an acrylic polyester resin, obtainable by grafting an acrylic polymer and a polyester material, the polyester material being obtainable by polymerizing: (i) a polyacid component, with (ii) a polyol component. At least one of the polyacid component and/or the polyol component comprises a functional monomer operable to impart functionality on to the polyester resin, such that an acrylic polymer may be grafted with the polyester material via the use of said functionality. The coating composition further containing a crosslinking material, wherein the crosslinking material comprises material according to formula (I); as shown in claim 1; wherein R.sub.1 is selected from aryl (such as C.sub.4 to C.sub.24 aryl), or aralkyl (such as C.sub.5 to C.sub.25 aralkyl); R.sub.2 to R.sub.5 are each independently hydrogen, alkyl (such as C.sub.1 to C.sub.20 alkyl), aryl (such as C.sub.4 to C.sub.24 aryl), aralkyl (such as C.sub.5 to C.sub.25 aralkyl) or —CHR.sub.8OR.sub.9; wherein R.sub.8 and R.sub.9 are each independently hydrogen, alkyl (such as C.sub.1 to C.sub.20 alkyl), aryl (such as C.sub.4 to C.sub.24 aryl), aralkyl (such as C.sub.5 to C.sub.25 aralkyl), alkoxyalkyl (such as C.sub.2 to C.sub.40 alkoxyalkyl) or an alkaryl (such as C.sub.5 to C.sub.25 alkaryl); wherein at least one of R.sub.2 to R.sub.5, is —CHR.sub.8OR.sub.9, suitably all of R.sub.2 to R.sub.5, are —CHR.sub.8OR.sub.9.

A cross-linkable hydrogel composition comprising an aqueous base carrier composition and a cross-linkable hydrogel precursor, wherein the aqueous base carrier composition comprises one or more polymers and one or more nanoparticles, wherein the one or more polymers are selectively adsorbed to the one or more nanoparticles, and wherein the one or more polymers and the one or more nanoparticles form a shear-thinning and self-healing hydrogel and wherein the one or more polymers and the one or more nanoparticles and cross-linkable hydrogel precursor are each comprised in the cross-linkable hydrogel composition in a concentration at which neither the one or more polymers nor the nanoparticles, taken alone, form a hydrogel, characterized in that the cross-linkable hydrogel precursor is not selectively adsorbed to the one or more nanoparticles and in that the cross-linkable hydrogel precursor and the one or more nanoparticles don't form a transient shear-thinning and self-healing hydrogel.

The present disclosure relates to multi-compound fiber reinforced composites and methods of making the same using frontal polymerization and targeted photosensitizer additives. In various aspects, the method may include disposing one or more layers in a mold cavity, where each of the one or more layers includes a fiber material and a first compound. The method may further includes disposing a second compound in the mold cavity, where the second compound includes a photosensitizer material. Further still, the method may include initiating photopolymerization of the photosensitizer using an ultraviolet light source, removing ultraviolet light source, and/or completing polymerization of the one or more layers so as to form the fiber-reinforced composite.

The present disclosure relates to multi-compound fiber reinforced composites and methods of making the same using frontal polymerization and targeted photosensitizer additives. In various aspects, the method may include disposing one or more layers in a mold cavity, where each of the one or more layers includes a fiber material and a first compound. The method may further includes disposing a second compound in the mold cavity, where the second compound includes a photosensitizer material. Further still, the method may include initiating photopolymerization of the photosensitizer using an ultraviolet light source, removing ultraviolet light source, and/or completing polymerization of the one or more layers so as to form the fiber-reinforced composite.

Disclosed is a preparation method for polylactic acid grafted chitosan nanowhiskers, and belongs to the technical field of materials. The preparation method of the disclosure is that after lactide, a catalyst and chitosan are uniformly mixed, polymerization grafting is performed to prepare PLA-g-CS, and then the PLA-g-CS is dispersed into an alkali liquor to obtain nanowhiskers by a repeated freezing/unfreezing method, with no solvent used in a polymerization grafting process. The method has advantages that the nanowhiskers can be prepared from the PLA-g-CS without a good solvent, and the whole reaction is efficient, clean, and environmentally friendly.

Certain embodiments of the invention described herein comprise a composition of matter, and method for preparing the same, which provide the benefits of pre-reaction molecular configuration favoring high liquidity properties, and post-reaction configuration that favors mechanical strength, stiffness, and properties associated with high viscous and/or solid-state materials. In some embodiments, the composition of matter can comprise relaxing photo-isomerizable fragments, of which a fraction can be transformed from trans to cis configurations upon exposure to a photon source. In some embodiments, the composition of matter further comprises thermally reactive fragments, of which can enable thermal solidification of a mixture upon exposure to elevated temperatures. In some embodiments, a composition of matter can be combined with reinforcing additives to form a prepreg combination.

Certain embodiments of the invention described herein comprise a composition of matter, and method for preparing the same, which provide the benefits of pre-reaction molecular configuration favoring high liquidity properties, and post-reaction configuration that favors mechanical strength, stiffness, and properties associated with high viscous and/or solid-state materials. In some embodiments, the composition of matter can comprise relaxing photo-isomerizable fragments, of which a fraction can be transformed from trans to cis configurations upon exposure to a photon source. In some embodiments, the composition of matter further comprises thermally reactive fragments, of which can enable thermal solidification of a mixture upon exposure to elevated temperatures. In some embodiments, a composition of matter can be combined with reinforcing additives to form a prepreg combination.

A preparation method of a crosslinking-type aqueous binder for lithium-ion batteries. An organic carboxylic group-, amino group- or hydroxyl group-containing hydrophilic polymer, and a hydroxyl group-, amine group- or carboxyl group-containing water-soluble small-molecule crosslinker, both serve as starting materials of the aqueous binder, and can be crosslinked by esterification or amidation under coating and drying conditions of lithium-ion battery electrode slurry. The preparation method of the crosslinking-type aqueous binder is simple, without the need of modifying the current process or conditions for lithium-ion battery manufacture. The obtained electrodes have excellent binding capacity, flexibility, and elasticity.