A controlled/"living" click polymerization method developed by researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo and Nagoya University enables precise chain-growth of AB-type monomers—traditionally ...

Synthesizing artificial polymers with precise sequence structures, such as their biological analogues, is a serious challenge and of great importance in polymer science. Recently, step-growth ...

A Schlenk flask with CuBr (0.051 g) was sealed using a rubber septum and degassed three times by evacuating and refilling with N 2. Degassed EBiB (0.07 g), styrene (10 g), PMDETA (0.062 g), and ...

A joint team led by Prof. Wu Kai and Assoc. Prof. Zhou Xiong at the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, and Li Yongwang at Synfuels China Technology Co., Ltd. have ...

Synthetic polymers play a crucial role in cell biology, serving as delivery vehicles for DNA and drugs, acting as fluorescent probes for cellular sensing, functioning as bioinks for tissue engineering ...

Researchers at Cornell University have devised a new single-molecule microscopy method for studying polymers as they grow (Nat Chem. 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41557-023-01363-2). “We see every monomer,” says ...

Plastics and chemicals supplier DSM has taken full contol of the polyamide 6 polymerization facility it previously had co-owned with Shaw Industries Group Inc., purchasing Shaw's 75% stake in the ...