Christophe Thomas and co-workers describe a very elegant strategy for controlling monomer sequences in a synthetic polymerization process 5 — the ring-opening polymerization of β-lactones.

Polymer synthesis, also called polymerization, is the process by which monomers (small molecules) are covalently bonded to form a (usually long) polymer chain or network. A facile and versatile ...

Xylan is a major interlocking polysaccharide in the cell walls of seed plants, possessing a high structural diversity and ...

Now, a team of researchers led by Professor Mikiya Fujii of the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan have used machine learning to mathematically model the polymerization process and ...

The free-radical retrograde-precipitation polymerization (FRRPP) process was discovered by the G. Caneba at Michigan Tech in the 1990s as a chain polymerization method, whereby phase separation is ...

More information: Shogo Takasuka et al, Bayesian optimization of radical polymerization reactions in a flow synthesis system, Science and Technology of Advanced Materials: Methods (2024). DOI: 10. ...