Car tires, replacement hip joints, bowling balls—these and other items are made from a class of plastics called thermosets, ...

Geng Jin's team at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences detailed two ...

Finally, we are developing monomers with minimal polymerization shrinkage and applying ring-opening polymerization methods to obtain practical expanding monomers. Dimensionally stable polymerizations ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers at University of Tsukuba have successfully achieved ...

EPC Engineering & Technologies has partnered with Avantium to commercialize the continuous polymerization of PEF (PEF cpol ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers have successfully achieved the living polymerization of polymers with aligned helical structures. In this process, optically ...

The research team synthesized optically active conducting polymers from non-optically active monomers through physical rather than chemical methods ... living polymerization of optically active ...

An oil-immersion objective with 100× magnification and high numerical aperture of 1.4 (Olympus) is used for focusing. Due to the nonlinear nature of the multiphoton-absorption-based photoinitiation ...

Fors and his research team developed a polymerization process that sequentially converts DHF into a recyclable polymer and ...