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Summary: Uniform core‐sheath nanofibers are prepared by electrospinning a water‐in‐oil emulsion in which the aqueous phase consists of a poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) solution in water and the oily phase is a chloroform solution of an amphiphilic poly(ethylene glycol)‐poly(L‐lactic acid) (PEG‐PLA) diblock copolymer. The obtained fibers are composed of a PEO core and a PEG‐PLA sheath with a sharp boundary in between. By adjusting the emulsion composition and the emulsification parameters, the overall fiber size and the relative diameters of the core and the sheath can be changed. A mechanism is proposed to explain the process of transformation from the emulsion to the core‐sheath fibers, i.e., the stretching and evaporation induced de‐emulsification. In principle, this process can be applied to other systems to prepare core‐sheath fibers in place of concentric electrospinning and it is especially suitable for fabricating composite nanofibers that contain water‐soluble drugs.Schematic mechanism for the formation of core‐sheath composite fibers during emulsion electrospinning.imageSchematic mechanism for the formation of core‐sheath composite fibers during emulsion electrospinning.

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A series of long-chain branched poly(L-lactide)s (LCB-PLAs) with controlled branch length were prepared by a simple and efficient method through a combination of ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of L-lactide and a coupling reaction between the terminal OH groups of the PLA prepolymers and the NCO groups of HDI. The influences of reaction conditions on the synthesis of the LCB-PLAs were investigated, and the structures of the resultant LCB-PLAs were characterized by 1 H NMR spectroscopy and SEC-MALLS. By adjusting the degree of polymerization and the composition of the prepolymers, LCB-PLAs with different branch densities and molecular weights between branch points were obtained. The effect of macromolecular chain branching on the rheology and crystallization of PLA was also investigated. The LCB structure contributed to the enhancement of the zero-shear viscosity, complex viscosity, storage modulus, melt strength, and strain hardening under elongational flow. Thermal behavior indicated that the branch structure resulted in a short nucleation induction period and more rapid crystallization, which can be a guarantee of high-strength foams.

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The Born cross section for the process e þ e − → pp is measured using the initial state radiation technique with an undetected photon. This analysis is based on datasets corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 7.5 fb −1 , collected with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider at center of mass energies between 3.773 and 4.600 GeV. The Born cross section for the process e þ e − → pp and the proton effective form factor are determined in the pp invariant mass range between 2.0 and 3.8 GeV=c 2 divided into 30 intervals. The proton form factor ratio (jG E j=jG M j) is measured in 3 intervals of the pp invariant mass between 2.0 and 3.0 GeV=c 2 .