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 ...

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 ...

Surprisingly, endothelial cells (ECs) can still invade if actin polymerization is inhibited. In this study, we show that endothelial tip cells employ an alternative mechanism of cell migration that is ...

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.

They further propose that water influx increases hydrostatic pressure within the cells which may facilitate actin polymerization and formation membrane protrusions. In the revised version of the ...

Post-polymerization modification of incorporated monomer units focus on two types of reaction. One is the removal of protecting groups where monomers with the desired functionality are incompatible ...

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Polyolefins and Catalysis and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Catalysis Technology for Polyolefins, Research Institute of Polymer ...

Department of Materials Science and Engineering Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology, Rayong 21210, Thailand ...