Thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) combine the features of vulcanized thermoset rubbers and
thermoplastic materials in their phase-separated microdomain structure. As a consequence …

In 2021, global plastics production was 390.7 Mt; in 2022, it was 400.3 Mt, showing an
increase of 2.4%, and this rising tendency will increase yearly. Of this data, less than 2 …

Our dependence on fossil-fuel based raw materials and alarming plastics accumulation in
the environment has inspired many scientists to design and implement more sustainable …

Recently, the research activity in the field of the stereospecific polymerization of conjugated
dienes has focused on the use of catalysts based on organometallic complexes having a …

There is an ever-growing push toward sustainability and green manufacturing in a wide
array of industries, especially 3D printing, which is now recognized as a viable …

Biomass-derived materials possess vast potential for material science and industry in the
next decades. Dwindling fossil resources and an increasing environmental awareness …

Polymers are essential materials in our daily life. The synthesis of value-added polymers is
mainly performed from fossil fuel-derived monomers. However, the adoption of the circular …

Green manufacturing and reducing our cultural dependency on petrochemicals have been
topics of growing interest in the past decade, particularly for three-dimensional (3D) …

The presence in seawater of low-molecular-weight polyethylene (PE) and
polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), synthetic polymers with high chemical resistance, has been …

The copolymerization of renewable monomers such as ocimene (O), myrcene (M), and
farnesene (F) with butadiene (B), promoted by dichloro {1, 4-dithiabutanediyl-2, 2′-bis [4, 6 …