Polymer chemistry is central to the development of new technologies and substances. Materials based upon natural and synthetic organic macromolecules, polymers, and hybrid derivatives have enormous ...

Sponsored by ExxonMobil Chemical Co. E. W. (Bert) Meijer, professor of organic chemistry at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, is honored for his seminal contributions to the design ...

I am pleased to announce the IUPAC-sponsored International Conference “Polymers and Organic Chemistry, POC-16”. POC-16 is part of the continuing historic series of IUPAC POC conferences and will take ...

What is “gum”? Most people have probably never considered this question, and might answer something like a chewy material you ...

A research team has developed a faster and easier way to make a class of sulfur-containing plastics that will lower the cost of large-scale production. A team of researchers has developed a faster and ...

When a capsule of asteroid dust from Bennu parachuted into the Utah desert, scientists hoped it might carry clues to how ...

Macromolecular engineering, i.e., the preparation of well-defined polymers with controlled architecture, molecular weight, molecular weight distribution and end-functionalities by living cationic, ...

Researchers have reported developing an efficient conductive electron-transporting polymer, a long-missing puzzle piece that will allow ultra-fast battery applications. The discovery relies upon a ...

Overview of organic synthetic macromolecules -- Thermal decomposition of polymers -- Review of analytical pyrolysis instrumentation -- Information generated from analytical pyrolysis studies -- ...

Cross-linking polymers simply means adding bonds across polymer strands, explains Jeremy E. Wulff, a chemistry professor at the University of Victoria who led the work. Silicone bakeware, certain ...