Rolf Mülhaupt investigates the dreams and reality of “green polymer chemistry”.
Rolf Mülhaupt investigates the dreams and reality of “green polymer chemistry”.
A highly electrophilic dicationic ruthenium-alkylidene complex is used in ring-opening metathesis polymerization and in cyclopolymerization.
IKV, RWTH Aachen University, and numerous industry partners have developed a new, easily-constructed carbon-fibre prototype hood for the Ford Focus.
Issue 4 of Advanced Optical Materials covers optical cloaking, holography, lithography, and more. All articles are free to read.
Most downloaded papers from the physica status, including as the ‘pss classic’ on amorphous germanium by Jan Tauc from 1966 and much more.
Polymers, solar cells, and graphene – this and more in the Advanced Materials Top 40 this week.
Japanese researchers report a novel hetero-stereocomplex formation for isotactic (S)- and (R)-configured biodegradable polyesters.
Scientists from the USA and China report on the development of monomers and polymers from terpenes, terpenoids, and rosin.
How much does materials science stand to gain from Nature? Professor Ozin gives his take on the progress of biomimetics.
Researchers improve zeolite-polymer gas separation membranes with liquid sulfolane for better carbon dioxide capture.