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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Huang Feihe at Zhejiang University, Jonathan Sessler of the University of Texas at Austin, and colleagues reported a novel ...

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 ...

The development of catalysts that are capable of polymerizing or copolymerizing functionalized vinyl monomers (CH 2 =CHX) by insertion mechanisms would enable the synthesis of new polyolefins with ...

Macromolecular engineering, i.e., the preparation of well-defined polymers with controlled architecture, molecular weight, molecular weight distribution and end-functionalities by living cationic, ...

The researchers decided to investigate the bacteria-quelling capacity of peptides because previous work has shown that natural peptides produced by various organisms can have antimicrobial activity.

We describe a class of cationic structural proteins that associate specifically with intermediate filaments (IF) but not with other types of cytoskeletal proteins. These proteins, for which the term ...