The paper describing the work by Sybren and Martijn on phase separation in imine-based covalent adaptable networks has been published in the journal Macromolecules. On top of that, their work features on the inside cover of the issue the paper was published in.
In the paper, we describe the surprise finding of phase separation in our previously developed polyimine networks. For this, we pioneered the use of Raman confocal microscopy to reveal the phase-separated nature of the networks. We found that the phase separation not only affected the appearance of the materials but –more notably– also had a noticeable effect on their thermal-mechanical properties.
You can read the full paper here.
