Polyolefins have dominated materials technology over the last century and remain among
the most used materials, despite environmental problems have emerged and their public …

Natural fiber-reinforced polymer composites are desirable structural materials due to their
biodegradability. Moreover, natural fiber sources are abundant and the production of natural …

Plastic recycling and upcycling are required to combat the environmental crisis from
landfilling consumer products. Chemocatalytic technologies are the most promising …

The importance of stereochemistry to the function of molecules is generally well understood.
However, to date, control over stereochemistry and its potential to influence properties of the …

This paper reports the principal discoveries which have played a major role in the polyolefin
field and have positioned polyolefins as the most produced plastics. The early development …

Polypropylene (PP) is among the most widely used commodity plastics in our everyday life
due to its low cost, lightweight, easy processability, and exceptional chemical, thermo …

The demand for low-cost high-performance materials has seen polyolefins'1 share of total
polymer production increase from approximately 30% to 60% over the last 30 years (19702 …

The ion-pair concept1-4 was introduced in 1926 by Bjerrum5 to account for the behavior of
ionophores (species, such as alkali halides, that are ionic in the crystalline state and exist as …

Abstract Since 1963, when Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta were jointly awarded the Nobel
Prize for their discoveries of the catalytic polymerization of olefins with Ti-chlorides and Al …

During the 1920's Hermann Staudinger, who was awarded the Nobel prize in 1953,
introduced his revolutionary concept of high molecular weight macromolecules and …