A new method allows chemists to precisely place single monomers at any position within a polymer chain made of other types of monomers. With this single monomer, chemists can add various types of ...

Biobased polymers and elastomers derived from terpene monomers represent an emerging frontier in sustainable materials science. Terpenes, abundant natural hydrocarbons extracted from plant sources, ...

Chemists can now precisely control the stereochemical sequence of synthetic polymers using similar techniques to those used ...

Carbohydrate polymers possess the general chemical formula Cn(H2O)m, in that there are generally two hydrogen atoms for every oxygen atom, though the ratio between n and m may vary, and not all ...

A research group is developing polymers that can be broken down into their constituent parts; thus, when the catalyst for depolymerization is absent or removed, the polymers will be highly stable and ...

Even though many plastics are recyclable, most are not recycled because of the cost and labor needed. To help make plastic recycling easier, chemists want to find new polymers that require less work ...

From heat-resistant engineering plastics to sequence-encoded polypeptides, scientists are redefining what modern polymers can ...

Bioengineers around the world have been working to create plastic-producing microbes that could replace the petroleum-based plastics industry. Now, researchers have overcome a major hurdle: getting ...

Within the chemical industry, the manufacturing of polymers is one of the largest sectors - the volumes of polystyrene alone produced annually worldwide reaching billions of kilograms. 1 ...

A research team at the Convergence Research Center for Solutions to Electromagnetic Interference in Future-mobility (SEIF) at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) has created a novel ...