Coordinative Chain Transfer and chain shuttling polymerization

R Mundil, C Bravo, N Merle, P Zinck - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Coordinative chain transfer polymerization, CCTP, is a degenerative chain transfer
polymerization process that has a wide range of applications. It allows a highly controlled …

Synthesis and characterization of polyolefin thermoplastic elastomers: A review

M Sun, Y **ao, K Liu, X Yang, P Liu… - … Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Polyolefin thermoplastic elastomers (TPE‐Os) are high‐performance polyolefins consisting
of both plastic and rubber phases. Compared with other thermoplastic elastomers, the TPE …

Advances on controlled chain walking and suppression of chain transfer in catalytic olefin polymerization

Y Zhang, Y Zhang, X Hu, C Wang, Z Jian - ACS Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
Precise synthesis of the complex polymer structure has been long-sought. In the late
transition-metal catalyzed olefin polymerization, chain walking and chain transfer are two …

Phase separation and crystallization in monodisperse block copolymers of linear low-density polyethylene and isotactic polypropylene

A Cicolella, F De Stefano, M Scoti, G Talarico… - …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Samples of block copolymers (BCP) constituted by semicrystalline blocks of linear low-
density polyethylene (LLDPE) and isotactic polypropylene (iPP) of different block lengths …

Mechanochromic polyolefin elastomers

C Micheletti, L Soldati, C Weder, A Pucci… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The optical detection of mechanical strain and stress in polymers is a powerful and
convenient approach for studying deformation processes in these materials and identifying …

Switchable living nickel (ii) α-diimine catalyst for ethylene polymerisation

O Padilla-Vélez, KS O'Connor, AM LaPointe… - Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Design and synthesis of a Ni (II)“sandwich” α-diimine complex (1) resulted in a switchable
catalyst for the living polymerisation of ethylene over a range of temperatures and pressures …

Crystallization Kinetics of Crystalline–Crystalline and Crystalline–Amorphous Block Copolymers of Linear Polyethylene and Isotactic Polypropylene

A Cicolella, M Scoti, G Talarico, AJ Müller… - …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Crystalline–amorphous diblock copolymers (BCPs) comprising crystalline blocks of isotactic
polypropylene (iPP) or polyethylene (PE) linked to amorphous blocks of random ethylene …

Thermal fractionation of ethylene/1-octene multiblock copolymers from chain shuttling polymerization

G Urciuoli, O Ruiz de Ballesteros, R Cipullo… - …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ethylene/1-octene statistical multiblock copolymers (OMBCs) consisting of the alternation of
crystalline, hard blocks and amorphous, soft blocks, with≈ 0.5 and 20 mol% of 1-octene …

Metallocenes and Beyond for Propene Polymerization: Energy Decomposition of Density Functional Computations Unravels the Different Interplay of Stereoelectronic …

A Cicolella, E Romano, V Barone, C De Rosa… - …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Stereoselective propene polymerization mechanisms promoted by C 1-symmetric transition
metal (TM) catalysts with nonmetallocene and ansa-metallocene ligands have been …

Model of crystallization behavior of isotactic polypropylene: The role of defects

M Scoti, F De Stefano, R Di Girolamo… - Macromolecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The crystallization behavior of propene–ethylene (iPPC2), propene–butene (iPPC4),
propene–pentene (iPPC5), and propene–hexene (iPPC6) isotactic copolymers, prepared …