Rod-like micelles, formed from bolaamphiphiles with oligo(ethylene oxide) hydrophilic outer segments and a hydrophobic segment with diacetylene flanked by two urea moieties, were covalently fixated by topochemical photopolymerization to high degrees of polymerization by optimizing the hydrophobic core and the hydrophilic periphery of the bolaamphiphiles. Analysis of the polymerized product with...

The main limitation preventing the use of enzymatic cellulosic ethanol in industrial production is its higher cost which is mainly due to the elevated price of β-glucosidase (BG). Herein, we report on a simple strategy for the in-situ encapsulation of BG for repeated cellulosic ethanol production. In this strategy, BG was net-immobilized into a poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) net-cloth layer on a P...

We treated silica with tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane, B(C6F5)3, to create borane-functionalized support, SiO2–B(C6F5)3 which was then used as a support and co-catalyst for the in situ activated dichloro-zirconocene (Cp2ZrCl2/TIBA) and dimethyl-zirconocene catalyst systems (Cp2Zr(CH3)2) for ethylene polymerization. The surface modifications of SiO2– B(C6F5)3 was investigated by SEM–EDX, FTIR and...

The high molecular weight poly (ethylene oxide) was used to synthesize telechelic bromine terminated poly (ethylene oxide) polymers. The low molecular weight polystyrene anion was generated by living anionic polymerization by controlling monomer/initiator ratio. The living polystyrene anion was reacted with telechelic bromine terminated poly (ethylene oxide) polymers to obtain water soluble pol...

Flooding of gas diffusion electrodes (GDEs) used in electrochemical conversion CO2 to ethylene is caused by polymerization minor products. The polymer so created reduces the hydrophobicity GDE, leading initially a reduction yield and finally complete failure.

The use of UHMWPE has attracted the attention of many researchers and industries. The aim of the present work is to fabricate UHMWPE/MoS2-Oxide nano-composites using in-situ polymerization. For this purpose, modified molybdenum disulfide was used. In order to perform the polymerization, a Ziegler-Natta catalytic system, with MoS2-Oxide and magnesium Ethoxide as support, was used. In order to fa...

An innovative methodology for the preparation of high-performance polyolefin-based materials combining a unique dendrimeric silica carrier, straightforward in situ supporting procedure and ethylene polymerization technique was developed.