Chemically recyclable polymers, which can be split apart into their building blocks (monomers) and repolymerized, would help reduce environmental problems resulting from long-lasting plastic waste and ...

During the polycondensation process, a polar aprotic solvent is added to solubilize the part of the non-polar chain, whereas inorganic salts, such as LiCl, are used to interact with the polar portion, ...

The polymers were identified and characterized ... preparation of graft copolymer by radical polymerization of vinyl monomers using microwave energy as an efficient energy source.

Researchers are therefore attempting to produce chemically degradable polymers that can be broken at the crosslinks. ‘People have designed dual functional monomers that have two different ...

Dreiling used DHF, a circular monomer with a double bond, as a building block for two successive polymerizations, the second of which results in a crosslinked polymer that can be recycled through ...

Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Metropolitan University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan Department of Materials Science and Engineering, ...

Vaccines are powerful tools that can activate the immune system for protection against various diseases. As carbohydrates can play important roles in immune recognition, they have been widely applied ...

Carbohydrates represent an important fraction of labile and semi-labile marine organic matter that is mainly comprised of exopolymeric substances derived from phytoplankton exudation and decay. This ...

The obtained polymers were quantified to characterize the monomer conversion and copolymer molar mass and average functionalities, through which the optimal synthesis parameters were obtained ...