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Professor Xiaokong Liu's team at Jilin University proposed an "activation-quenching" strategy for dynamic covalent chemistry, ...

ORNL's invention may change plastic's environmental fate by rearranging polymeric building blocks to customize the properties of plastics. Molecular subunits link to produce polymer chains that can ...

The authors explain that unlike in Figure 4, this polymer is linked by a thioester bond, which is considerably more stable than a disulfide bond (5). Note that the reaction product has a sulfhydryl ...

The rational development of polymeric structures requires a deep understanding at both molecular and macroscopic scales. Several methods are used to analyze the structure of polymers, such as ...

That problem is why, even though we’ve had success finding enzymes that break down common plastics like polyesters and PET, they’re only partial solutions to plastic waste. However, researchers aren’t ...

Plastic packaging is ubiquitous in our world, with its waste winding up in landfills and polluting oceans, where it can take ...

Healing hydrogels—cross-linked polymer chains that hold a lot of water—can promote tissue healing and prevent postsurgical complications. But the current method of delivery, using a needle from the ...