The fuel cell industry is the most promising industry in terms of the advancement of clean
and safe technologies for sustainable energy generation. The polymer electrolyte …

Polypeptides have attracted considerable attention in recent decades due to their inherent
biodegradability and tunable cytocompatibility. Macromolecular design in conjunction with …

Despite numerous strategies involving dynamic covalent bond exchange for dynamic and
self-healing materials, it remains a challenge to be able to tune the malleability and self …

Two well-known low-ceiling-temperature (LCT) monomers, γ-butyrolactone (γ-BL) toward
ring-opening polymerization (ROP) to polyester and cyclohexene toward ring-opening …

The fascinating story of olefin (or alkene) metathesis (eq 1) began almost five decades ago,
when Anderson and Merckling reported the first carbonrcarbon double-bond rearrangement …

Applications for advanced functional soft materials that possess precisely engineered
properties and functional groups have been expanding significantly with the development of …

In recent years, the olefin metathesis reaction has attracted widespread attention as a
versatile carbon− carbon bond-forming method. Many new applications have become …

Since the discovery of olefin metathesis in the mid-1950s, there has been great interest in
using this versatile reaction to synthesize macromolecular materials. More recently, living …

N-Heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands, introduced as analogues to phosphines, are recently
getting wide attention in the design of diverse homogeneous catalytic systems. 1-6 During …

This is a story of our exploration of the olefin-metathesis reaction, a reaction that has been
the major emphasis of my independent research. As with all stories of scientific discovery …