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

Researchers have developed a bio-based alternative to thermoset plastics that is both tough and fully recyclable. Using ...

the polymerization process can be initiated by two-photon absorption within the focal region. By moving the beam focus in a 3D manner through the material, 3D structures can be fabricated.

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

The free-radical retrograde-precipitation polymerization (FRRPP) process was discovered by the G. Caneba at Michigan Tech in the 1990s as a chain polymerization method, whereby phase separation is ...

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

Efficient cell migration is driven by a process known as actin polymerization in which the building blocks of the polymer actin join together to form filaments. Now, a team led by Li-Kun Phng of ...

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.