By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers at University of Tsukuba have successfully achieved ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers at University of Tsukuba have successfully achieved ...

A ruthenium catalyst facilitated the polymerization, or polymer addition. Industrial firms have used this catalyst to make ...

The development of polymer synthesis methods utilizing diazocarbonyl compounds as monomers. For over 20 years, the Ihara ...

Upcycling may help remedy the roughly 450 million tons of plastic discarded worldwide annually, of which only nine per cent ...

Multicomponent polymer synthesis and functionalization is an innovative area of polymer chemistry that focuses on creating complex polymer structures through the combination of multiple reactants ...

Polymer synthesis, also called polymerization, is the process by which monomers (small molecules) are covalently bonded to form a (usually long) polymer chain or network. Well-defined vinyl ...

In this study, published in the journal Small, researchers successfully demonstrated the bottom-up synthesis of colloidal ...

This is a summary of recent progress on the polymerization of diazocarbonyl compounds developed by the Ihara group. The main topics are 1) ...

The findings are published in the journal Nature Synthesis. π-conjugated polymers are a class of macromolecules featuring an ...

By manipulating the microstructure of a natural polyester, researchers in the US have developed a biodegradable adhesive ...

monomer and polymer synthesis, and experimental characterization. The group is currently composed of graduate students and post-doctoral researchers, with various interdisciplinary collaborations with ...