Traditional polymers such as plastics are widely utilized for their chemical inertness and durability. However, these very ...

Traditional polymers such as plastics are widely utilized for their chemical inertness and durability. However, these very properties make them ...

When a plastic fails unexpectedly, the cause could lie anywhere — processing, design, material choice or even additives. But ...

Fabricating the future with a new environment friendly method of polymerization Date: February 26, 2021 Source: Nagoya Institute of Technology Summary: The current use of metal catalysts to ...

Ethylene polymerization, a common way to produce polyethylene, is a typical chain polymerization reaction that includes the fundamental steps of chain initiation, propagation, and termination.

Experimental A semi-batch polymerization reaction was carried out in this experiment using three proprietary monomers, designated monomers A, B, and C. Figure 1 shows a schematic of the system. Figure ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers have successfully achieved the living polymerization of polymers with aligned helical structures. In this process ...

Most of the industrial production of polycarbonate is currently performed by the interfacial polymerization method using phosgene directly (FIG. 1, Reaction (a)).

Although there are different classes of polymerization reactions, typically, all of these involve an initiation step to trigger the polymerization process and the growth of the polymer chain.