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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

The ability to control the sequence of building blocks in polymers with increasing levels of precision offers new opportunities for tailoring the properties of designer synthetic macromolecules.

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 ...

Recently, Virgil Percec and co-workers 1 from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia have shown how helical polymers can provide such capabilities. These polymers, in which each individual ...