Car tires, replacement hip joints, bowling balls—these and other items are made from a class of plastics called thermosets, known for extreme durability. Their "crosslinked polymer" chemical structure ...

Polymerization reactions and resulting molecular weight distributions; modeling of polymerization kinetics; batch, continuous stirred tank and tubular flow reactor design for optimal polymerizations; ...

Solutions of 1,6-hexanediamine and sebacoyl chloride are poured carefully into the same container. Nylon polymer forms at the interface of the two layers and can be pulled continuously from the ...

Polymer industries depend on the spontaneous polymerization of molecules into chains in response to an appropriate trigger. We have succeeded in inducing and guiding chain polymerization over tiny ...

According to Fors, the corresponding author, it's also remarkable chemistry that initiates two polymerization processes from one monomer base. The Fors group studies dihydrofuran (DHF), a monomer ...

For the first time, they achieved asymmetric (chiral) living polymerization of optically active polyisocyanides using liquid crystals with chiral (mirror-image isomer) structures as a solvent.

The cell is “sandwiching” a droplet of photoresist. The multiphoton polymerization setup consists of a tunable femto-second pulsed Titanium:Sapphire laser operating at wavelength of 780 nm, ...

Southern Medical University scientists have reported the discovery and preclinical characterization of novel microtubule-inhibiting agents being developed for the treatment of cancer.