<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ojha, U. P.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ramesh, C.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kumar, Anil</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Design, syntheses, and characterization of new thermoplastic polyureas based on 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of Polymer Science Part A-Polymer Chemistry</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4-ethylenedioxythiophene</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">heteroaromatic polymers</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Polyurea</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">polyurea gels</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA)</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">thermoplastics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">WAXS</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2005</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DEC</style></date></pub-dates></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">23</style></number><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">WILEY-BLACKWELL</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">43</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5823-5830</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;New thermoplastic polyureas labeled PUn (n = 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, or 10), based on 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) with flexible aliphatic spacers, were synthesized and characterized for the first time. EDOT was chosen as a replacement for the aromatic phenyl group in conventional thermoplastics based on urea linkages to improve solubility without compromising the thermal properties. As synthesized, all the samples exhibited a semicrystalline nature. The glass-transition and melting temperatures showed a strong dependence on the spacer length. A comparison of the thermal properties of these polyureas with the corresponding phenyl analogues indicated that EDOT was a viable heteroatomic analogue of the phenyl group to be inserted into the main-chain polyureas without hampering their thermal stability. The polyureas with spacer lengths greater than hexamethylene formed transparent gels in N-methylpyrrolidone, 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane, and dimethyl sulfoxide. The molecular packing of the polyureas was assigned with wide-angle X-ray diffraction studies. (c) 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">23</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Article</style></work-type><custom2><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Council of Scientific &amp;amp; Industrial Research (CSIR) - India&lt;/p&gt;</style></custom2><custom3><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Foreign&lt;/p&gt;</style></custom3><custom4><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3.114</style></custom4></record></records></xml>