Liquid marbles have been shown to be a novel micro-reactor to synthesize polyperoxides by the radical alternating copolymerization of the 1,3-diene monomer with oxygen in a good yield. Oxygen gas is effectively absorbed as a comonomer by the large and permeable gas-liquid interface of the liquid marbles.

Molecularly imprinted polymers bearing peptide fragment-based binding sites within the protein-imprinted cavities were prepared by copolymerization of the acrylated protein with 6-monoacryloyl-trehalose and 6,6'-diacryloyl-trehalose as a hydrophilic comonomer and a crosslinker respectively, followed by enzymatic decomposition of the grafted protein into the polymer matrix with pepsin, resulting...

The vast majority of commercial polyolefins are semi-crystalline materials. Depending on the chemical composition and tacticity, their melting temperatures range from ambient to temperatures exceeding 160 C. Polyolefins form various crystalline structures that can be investigated with microscopic, spectroscopic and scattering techniques. When a semi-crystalline polyolefin is dissolved in a solv...

2-Methylene-4-phenyl-1,3-dioxolane (MPDL) was successfully used as a controlling comonomer in NMP with oligo(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate (MeOEGMA) to prepare well-defined and degradable PEG-based P(MeOEGMA-co-MPDL) copolymers. The level of ester group incorporation is controlled, leading to reductions in molecular weight of up to 95% on hydrolysis. Neither the polymer nor its deg...

The biodegradation of isodimorphic random butanediol-succinate/adipate copolymers (PBSAs) can be affected by a change in the semicrystalline morphology. A crucial point for final structure is incorporation monomers minority component into crystals majority component. We use proton time-domain NMR and wide-angle X-ray scattering to characterize across their complete composition range analyze pos...

Highly active metallocenes and other single site catalysts have opened up the possibility of polymerizing cycloolefins such as norbornene (N) or of copolymerizing them with ethene (E) or propene (P). The polymers obtained show exciting structures and properties. E-N copolymers are industrially produced materials, with variable and high glass transitions depending on the wide range of their micr...

In this contribution, we disclose the ability of α,ω-diene comonomers, namely 1,7-octadiene and 1–10-undecadiene, as long-chain branching (LCB)/cross-linking promoters in ethylene polymerization catalyzed by bis(indenyl) bis(cyclopentadienyl) catalyst systems, rac-{EBTHI}ZrCl2 (Zr-1) (nBuCp)2ZrCl2 (Zr-2). Both under homogeneous heterogeneous (slurry) conditions, Zr-1-based systems efficiently p...

The mechanical relaxation behavior and microstructure of a series of novel norbornylPOSS organic-inorganic copolymers have been investigated. We have examined the influence on physical properties of both the weight fraction of POSS-norbornyl monomer and the corner group composition. POSS refers to the polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane inorganic/organic macromer, which is composed of an inorg...

some innovative solutions are proposed to the problem of the unavoidable physical migration of antioxidants from plastic films for packaging, in order to minimize the consequent undesirable effect of food contamination. in previous exploratory tests, phenolic antioxidant co-units were achieved and incorporated into polyethylene chain and now the work is extended to create new families of polyme...