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 …

Ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) belongs to an emerging class of high-
performance specialty polymers with a unique set of properties and applications. The field …

Since the pioneering advances of Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta during the early 1950s, a
continuing series of breakthroughs in research and industrial innovations have greatly …

Research on “post‐metallocene” polymerization catalysis ranges methodologically from
fundamental mechanistic studies of polymerization reactions over catalyst design to material …

What is boron? The question itself may not seem very significant to many people. Their
introduction to the word “boron” could come as the butt of a joke. Conan O'Brien made jokes …

This paper reports the principal discoveries which have played a major role in the polyolefin
field and have positioned polyolefins as the most produced plastics. The early development …

Akifumi Nakamura (left) was born in 1984 in Kanagawa, Japan. He received his BS degree
in 2007 and MS degree in 2009 from the University of Tokyo under the guidance of …

1.1. Inspired by Nature In many enzymes, such as ureases (Figure 1), two or more metal
centers are poised in close proximity to activate both electrophilic and nucleophilic …

The fascination of the well-defined metal catalysts for olefin polymerization is their capability
to control the properties of the polymer such as topology (linear to highly branched), range of …

Conspectus Polyolefins are produced today catalytically on a vast scale, and the
manufactured polymers find use in everything from artificial limbs and food/medical …