The possibilities for material design and production of plastic components are being expanded through 3D printing technology. However, there is a shortage of recyclable polymers that meet the ...

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

Monomer and polymer designs are essential to produce various biomaterials, although there are some size limitations in actual use (Figure 1). Copolymers with hydrophobic polymers form nano-sized ...

This type of reaction is a very important ... leads to the formation of syndiotactic polymers — macromolecules with an alternating sequence of monomer units of opposite stereoconfiguration ...

"Click" Reactions for Polymer Networks Covalent Adaptable Polymer Networks Novel Dental Materials Photoinduced Synthetic Vesicles for Artificial Cells These interests are investigated by incorporating ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers at University of Tsukuba have successfully achieved ...

We are developing new monomers based on free radical polymerization routes that can be used in the body to form completely degradable networks. New pathways to highly versatile hyperbranched polymers ...

A one-pot method for producing a range of degradable, partially recyclable thermosetting plastics by polymerising the same ...