Research Center for Water Resources and Interface Science, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China ...

Polymer industries depend on the spontaneous polymerization of molecules into chains in response to an appropriate trigger. We have succeeded in inducing and guiding chain polymerization over tiny ...

In contrast to the well-known vinyl polymerization, where the main chain is constructed from two carbon units of vinyl monomers such as ethylene and styrene, the polymerization of diazoacetate ...

Unlike traditional vinyl polymerization—where the polymer backbone is built from two-carbon units of vinyl monomers like ethylene and styrene—diazoacetate polymerization creates the C–C main chain ...

For the first time, they achieved asymmetric (chiral) living polymerization of optically active polyisocyanides using liquid crystals with a chiral (mirror-image isomer) structures as a solvents.

Upcycling may help remedy the roughly 450 million tons of plastic discarded worldwide annually, of which only nine per cent ...

In other experiments, they worked with tough acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, the stuff of plastic ... A ruthenium catalyst facilitated the polymerization, or polymer addition.

Unlocking Plastic Recycling Since their widespread adoption by the manufacturing industry in the 1960s, plastics have become an omnipresent material in our daily lives. They are also the cause of very ...

It turns out that the black plastic lid atop your coffee cup has a superpower. And the Stache Lab at Princeton Chemistry, which uncovered it, is exploiting that property to recycle at least two major ...

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80303, United States BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado ...