One-step facile synthesis of monoporous polymer microspheres via microwave-controlled dispersion polymerization is introduced. This template-free method employing the dispersion polymerization of styrene under microwave irradiation induces directly the formation of uniform monoporous polymer microspheres, with controllable morphologies and sizes, which can be tuned by simply adjusting parameter...

the stereospecific polymerization of conjugated dienes began in 1954 with the first catalysts obtained by combining ticl4 or ticl3 with aluminum-alkyls, i.e. the catalytic systems previously employed for ethylene and propylene polymerizations. subsequently, many other catalytic systems were obtained and examined by a combination of transition metal or lanthanide compounds with appropriate alkyl...

The stereospecific polymerization of conjugated dienes began in 1954 with the first catalysts obtained by combining TiCl4 or TiCl3 with aluminum-alkyls, i.e. the catalytic systems previously employed for ethylene and propylene polymerizations. Subsequently, many other catalytic systems were obtained and examined by a combination of transition metal or lanthanide compounds with appropriate alkyl...

In Research News article 1500394, recently developed methods for activating polymerizations employing RAFT agents are described by T. G. McKenzie, C. Boyer, M. Kamigaito, G. G. Qiao, and co-workers. Direct photolysis, or the use of a multitude of (in)organic photoredox catalysts are shown to be effective for activation of radical polymerizations, while various acids are employed together with d...

The cover designed by the Chmielarz Research Group refers to wine-based miniemulsion used as a polymerization medium for synthesis of non water-miscible polymethacrylates first time. Various types wines were presented antioxidant-rich solvents, which enabled controlled hydrophobic (co)polymers. Dry wine was characterized best candidate double-controlled winebased ATRP. DOI: 10.1002/app.53367

In 2010, an IUPAC task group comprising Aubrey Jenkins, Dick Jones and Graeme Moad coined ‘reversible-deactivation radical polymerization (RDRP)’ as a new term to describe what up that time had been known variously living or controlled polymerization. This paper describes the steps missteps in terminological development of RDRP. The introduced is currently one more highly cited terminology pape...

The control of fluidized-bed operations processes is still one of the major areas of research due to the complexity of the process and the inherent nonlinearity and varying dynamics involved in its operation. There are varieties of problems in chemical engineering that can be formulated as NonLinear Programming (NLPs). The quality of the developed solution significantly affects the performa...

Metal—Polyaniline nanocomposites such as Platinum-Polyaniline nanocomposite is prepared by insitu oxidative polymerization of aniline and reduction of Pt+4 ions into Pt nanoparticles. Thepolymerization of aniline was carried out in the presence of 1(2PtCN6 [Potassium Hexa CyanoPlatinate (IV)] as oxidizing agent. During the reaction aniline monomers undergo oxidation andform polyaniline (PANT) w...

Fabrication of poly(p-oxybenzoyl) (POB) nanowhiskers was examined by using reaction-induced crystallization of oligomers during the polymerization of p-acetoxybenzoic acid in liquid paraffin. Width of the POB whiskers was susceptible to polymerization temperature and it was efficiently controlled by a change in temperature during the polymerization. Increase in polymerization temperature just a...