Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Chemistry have improved a popular technology used to generate a range of industrial plastics for applications ranging from paints and coatings ...

Frontal polymerization encompasses a class of self-propagating, exothermic curing methods in which a localized reaction front traverses a resin matrix, converting monomer to polymer without sustained ...

Synthetic polymers are indispensable compounds in everyday life. Polymers have structural characteristics such as sequence, molecular weight, and molecular weight distribution that are not relevant to ...

Regulating the polymerization process is of great interest for both industrial and medical applications. In an article published in Angewandte Chemie, TU/e researchers show they not only can control ...

The chemical industry has a long tradition of producing polymers. This involves turning small molecular building blocks into long chains of molecules that bond together. Polymers are the basis of all ...