Researchers from the Princeton University show that the glass transition temperature of norbornene polymers can be raised drastically by adding a phenyl side group.

Researchers from the Princeton University show that the glass transition temperature of norbornene polymers can be raised drastically by adding a phenyl side group.
Thermally conductive thermoplastics have attracted attention as heat dissipative materials for a vast number of electronic devices. S. Yoshihara and coworkers (Kaneka Corporation, Japan) now report that thermoplastics exhibit high thermal conductivity by lamellar crystal alignment.
Canadian researchers now synthesized polymers that contain two different organometallic cores by post modification of organoiron poly(alkynyl methacrylates) with dicobalt hexacarbonyl.
Unlike Cu-mediated systems, high pressure reduces the equilibrium constant for iron-mediated atom-transfer radical polymerizations.
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Manfred Wilhelm and Roland Kadar of KIT review Applied Polymer Rheology: Polymeric Fluids with Industrial Applications edited by Marianna Kontopoulou.
Klaus Tauer and co-workers (Golm, Germany) report the discovery of an unusually rapid and high-yielding emulsion polymerization reaction that does not follow zero-one kinetics.
Researchers from the University of Jena (Germany) designed glycopolymeric materials with tailored properties to independently study the parameters that impact cellular uptake.
The PEtOx-b-LPEI copolymer could have important applications in gene delivery and gene silencing as a polymeric vector.
German researchers found stress to be a new trigger for shape memory polymers.