Coordinative chain transfer polymerization, CCTP, is a degenerative chain transfer
polymerization process that has a wide range of applications. It allows a highly controlled …

Polyolefins have dominated materials technology over the last century and remain among
the most used materials, despite environmental problems have emerged and their public …

Thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) have found use in a wide range of applications, such as
adhesives, elastomers, coatings, fibers, and in additive manufacturing techniques such as …

Conspectus The search for new catalysts for more efficient, selective chemical
transformations and for the synthesis of new functional materials has been a long-standing …

Single-site organometallic catalysts supported on solid inorganic or organic substrates are
making an important contribution to heterogeneous catalysis. Early and late transition metal …

Polymerizing epoxides after cyclic esters remains a major challenge, though their block
copolymers have been extensively studied and used for decades. Reported here is a simple …

Alternating copolymers have the clearest and most defined microstructures among
manmade polymers, having been promising building blocks to access synthetic polymers …

Chain shuttling polymerization is a powerful approach for efficiently producing olefin block
copolymers via simple one-pot polymerization. Herein, this method was used to synthesize …

A Ti-based diamine bis (phenolate) catalyst,[Ti {2, 2′-(OC6H2-4, 6-tBu2) 2NHMePhMeNH}
Cl2], was synthesized and fully characterized by elemental analysis and NMR spectroscopy …

Semicrystalline polyethylene (PE) and amorphous poly (ethylene-co-norbornene)
copolymers have been used in a wide variety of applications, especially in packaging. It is a …