Recent advances in the polymerization of elemental sulphur, inverse vulcanization and methods to obtain functional Chalcogenide Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Polymers …

Y Zhang, RS Glass, K Char, J Pyun - Polymer Chemistry, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent developments in the polymerization of elemental sulfur and the preparation of
functional Chalcogenide Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Polymers (CHIPs) are reviewed. CHIPs …

Advances in functional solution processed planar 1D photonic crystals

P Lova, G Manfredi, D Comoretto - Advanced Optical Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
An overview on the properties and applications of polymer and inorganic planar 1D photonic
crystals fabricated from solution is provided here. In the last decades, photonic crystals …

Polymerizations with elemental sulfur: from petroleum refining to polymeric materials

T Lee, PT Dirlam, JT Njardarson… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The production of elemental sulfur from petroleum refining has created a technological
opportunity to increase the valorization of elemental sulfur by the synthesis of high …

All-organic polymeric materials with high refractive index and excellent transparency

J Zhang, T Bai, W Liu, M Li, Q Zang, C Ye… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
High refractive index polymers (HRIPs) have drawn attention for their optoelectronic
applications and HRIPs with excellent transparency and facile preparation are highly …

On the Mechanism of the Inverse Vulcanization of Elemental Sulfur: Structural Characterization of Poly(sulfur-random-(1,3-diisopropenylbenzene))

J Bao, KP Martin, E Cho, KS Kang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Organosulfur polymers, such as those derived from elemental sulfur, are an important new
class of macromolecules that have recently emerged via the inverse vulcanization process …

Room temperature one-step conversion from elemental sulfur to functional polythioureas through catalyst-free multicomponent polymerizations

T Tian, R Hu, BZ Tang - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018 - ACS Publications
The utilization of sulfur is a global concern, considering the abundant and cheap source of
sulfur from nature and petroleum industry, its limited consumption, and the …

One-step vapor-phase synthesis of transparent high refractive index sulfur-containing polymers

DH Kim, W Jang, K Choi, JS Choi, J Pyun, J Lim… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
High refractive index polymers (HRIPs) have recently emerged as an important class of
materials for use in a variety of optoelectronic devices including image sensors, lithography …

Synthesis and applications of polymers made by inverse vulcanization

JM Chalker, MJH Worthington, NA Lundquist… - Sulfur Chemistry, 2019 - Springer
Elemental sulfur is an abundant and inexpensive chemical feedstock, yet it is underused as
a starting material in chemical synthesis. Recently, a process coined inverse vulcanization …

100th anniversary of macromolecular science viewpoint: high refractive index polymers from elemental sulfur for infrared thermal imaging and optics

TS Kleine, RS Glass, DL Lichtenberger… - ACS Macro …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Optical technologies in the midwave and long wave infrared spectrum (MWIR, LWIR) are
important systems for high resolution thermal imaging in near, or complete darkness. While …

Segmented polyurethanes and thermoplastic elastomers from elemental sulfur with enhanced thermomechanical properties and flame retardancy

KS Kang, A Phan, C Olikagu, T Lee… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The production of elemental sulfur from petroleum refining has created a technological
opportunity to increase the valorization of elemental sulfur by the creation of high …