Diversification of polymer waste recycling is one of the solutions to improve the current
environmental scenario. Upcycling is a promising strategy for converting polymer waste into …

Block copolymers form the basis of the most ubiquitous materials such as thermoplastic
elastomers, bridge interphases in polymer blends, and are fundamental for the development …

More than 50 years have passed since Ziegler and Natta shared the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry for their discovery of olefin polymerization catalysts. The field of metal-catalysed …

Polyethylenes enjoy wide applications due to their many superior properties. The
incorporation of some polar functional groups into the otherwise nonpolar polyethylene …

Abstract α-Diimine Ni and Pd complexes are one of the most examined late-transition
organometallics in the application of catalyzed ethylene (co) polymerization. These …

Discovered as organometallic curiosities in the 1970s, carbene radicals have become a
staple in modern-day homogeneous catalysis. Carbene radicals exhibit nucleophilic radical …

Polyethylene is a commodity material that is widely used because of its low cost and
valuable properties. However, the lack of functional groups in polyethylene limits its use in …

The preparation of well-defined functionalized polyolefins via coordination-insertion
polymerization method is a hot topic in polymer science. Late transition organometallic …

Polymers have become one of the largest and most important materials we use in daily life.
Their popularity has stemmed from their wide range of material properties combined with …

Functional polyethylenes possess valuable bulk and surface properties, but the limits of
current synthetic methods narrow the range of accessible materials and prevent many …