The development of new or more sustainable, active, efficient, controlled, and selective
polymerization reactions or processes continues to be crucial for the synthesis of important …

Other than their established short-chain congeners, polycondensates based on long-chain
difunctional monomers are often dominated by the long methylene sequences of the repeat …

Polyesters carrying polar main-chain ester linkages exhibit distinct material properties for
diverse applications and thus play an important role in today's plastics economy. It is …

3D/4D printing is enabling transformative advances in device manufacturing and medicine
but remains limited by the lack of printable resorbable materials with advanced properties …

Abstract Poly (propylene fumarate)(PPF) is a biodegradable polymer that has been
investigated extensively over the last three decades. It has led many scientists to synthesize …

A series of zinc complexes supported by tridentate imino-phenolate ligands with different
substituents on the phenolate ring and bearing a pyridyl ring as an additional coordinative …

Much work has been directed to the design of complex single-site catalysts for ring-opening
polymerization (ROP) to enhance both activity and selectivity. More simply, however …

A setup consisting of N-heterocylic olefins (NHOs) and several simple Lewis acids (such as
MgCl2 or LiCl) was employed to homopolymerize ω-pentadecalactone (PDL) and to …

The ring-opening copolymerization of maleic anhydride and propylene oxide, using a
functionalized primary alcohol initiator and magnesium 2, 6-di-tert-butyl phenoxide as a …

Ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of cyclic esters (lactones, lactides, cyclic carbonates
and phosphates) is an effective tool to synthesize biocompatible and biodegradable …