Polymer industries depend on the spontaneous polymerization of molecules into chains in response to an appropriate trigger. We have succeeded in inducing and guiding chain polymerization over tiny ...

Car tires, replacement hip joints, bowling balls—these and other items are made from a class of plastics called thermosets, ...

The free-radical retrograde-precipitation polymerization (FRRPP) process was discovered by the G. Caneba at Michigan Tech in the 1990s as a chain polymerization method, whereby phase separation is ...

In contrast to the well-known vinyl polymerization, where the main chain is constructed from two carbon units of vinyl monomers such as ethylene and styrene, the polymerization of diazoacetate ...

The findings are published in the Polymer Journal. In contrast to the well-known vinyl polymerization, where the main chain is constructed from two carbon units of vinyl monomers such as ethylene ...

More information: Mohamed Abdelrahim et al, Light-mediated intracellular polymerization, Nature Protocols (2024). DOI: ...