Polyolefins are a multibillion dollar a year industry with worldwide production in excess of
160 billion pounds and polyethylene alone in excess of 100 billion pounds. Despite this size …

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 …

Polyolefins are the most important and largest volume plastics produced. Unfortunately, the
enormous use of plastics and lack of effective disposal or recycling options have created a …

Noble metal-based hydrogenolysis is emerging as a key chemical deconstruction
technology of polyolefins into valuable products. Still, the catalyst cost and availability are …

One-step conversion of low-purity polyolefins to value-added products without pretreatments
represents a great opportunity for chemical recycling of waste plastics. However, additives …

Detailed investigations of the polymerization of ethylene by (α-diimine) nickel (II) catalysts
are reported. Effects of structural variations of the diimine ligand on catalyst activities …

Mechanistic studies of olefin polymerizations catalyzed by aryl-substituted α-diimine− Pd (II)
complexes are presented. Syntheses of several cationic catalyst precursors,[(N∧ N) Pd …

Plastic waste management is a major concern. While the societal demand for sustainability
is growing, landfilling and incineration of waste plastics remain the norm and methods able …

Crystalline nanofibers of linear polyethylene with an ultrahigh molecular weight (6,200,000)
and a diameter of 30 to 50 nanometers were formed by the polymerization of ethylene with …

The manufacture of advanced polyolefins has been critically enabled by the development of
single-site heterogeneous catalysts. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) show great potential …