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

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

Polymers are the building blocks of living systems and the ... and also stimulated research into the structure and properties of more complex biological macromolecules such as proteins, enzymes, and ...

In this animation, polymers of discarded plastics are edited to generate macromolecules that may be reused in other products.

To upcycle the polymers of discarded plastics, chemists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory invented a way to generate new macromolecules with more valuable properties than those of the starting material ...

Macromolecules, 36, 36 (2003)), intensive ... For example, it is now possible to prepare high molecular weight polymers (molecular weight > 50000), to control the stereo-structure (tacticity ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a groundbreaking method to ...

Chemists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method for producing new macromolecules ...

The development of polymer synthesis methods utilizing diazocarbonyl compounds as monomers. For over 20 years, the Ihara ...

Polymer chemistry is central to the development of new technologies and substances. Materials based upon natural and synthetic organic macromolecules, polymers, and hybrid derivatives have enormous ...

Molecular subunits link to produce polymer chains that can connect through their backbones and cross-linked molecules to form multipurpose plastics. The makeup of polymer chains determines how strong, ...

This is a summary of recent progress on the polymerization of diazocarbonyl compounds developed by the Ihara group. The main topics are 1) ...