After over a century of neglect, Ketenes have reemerged as a useful tool for synthetic chemists and materials scientists.
Ryan Boyle
Sticky Teeth: Improving Dental Adhesives
A new form of dental adhesives, containing bisphosphonate and bisphosponic acid, improves the ability to etch enamel and increases stability in water.
Turning the Forest’s Garbage to Black Gold: Polymerization in Biorefineries
Swedish researchers have pioneering a polymerization process that converts the pulp and fragments released from many wood processing operations into value-added products such as refined chemicals and materials.
Doctors in the Bloodstream: Using Polymers to Diagnose and Treat Disease
Researchers at the Wooley Laboratory have used polymers to mimic the characteristics and actions of biological nanoparticles and structures.