Cationic polymerization represents a pivotal technique in modern polymer chemistry, enabling the synthesis of polymers via the formation of carbocationic intermediates. This mechanism is highly ...

Nagoya, Japan - Chemists at the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech) report a metal-free method to control cationic polymerization that provides a new framework for higher quality industrial ...

Researchers in Japan have developed a new technique for creating polymers. This discovery is expected to lead to the development of plastics that are more environmentally friendly, heat resistant, and ...

Chemists report a metal-free method to control cationic polymerization that provides a new framework for higher quality industrial polymers. The reaction depends on weak halogen bonding and the ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, have started a multiyear project to develop new types of plastic ...

The current use of metal catalysts to develop polymers leads to suboptimal quality polymers that contain metallic impurities and involves a reaction process that is not environment friendly. Now, ...

Alexander Fleming cautioned in his 1945 Nobel Prize lecture that antibiotic resistance was inevitable. His warnings have never seemed more prescient; antibiotic-resistant infections killed ...

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