We study the use of post-self-assembly cross-linking to combine molecular nanofibers of hydrogelators with copolymers to generate oscillatory materials using the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. The formation of nanofibers from designed hydrogelators provides multiple polymerizable sites for copolymerizing with N-isopropylacrylamide and for attaching a catalytic ruthenium bipyridine complex on th...

Self-optimization of chemical reactions enables faster optimization of reaction conditions or discovery of molecules with required target properties. The technology of self-optimization has been expanded to discovery of new process recipes for manufacture of complex functional products. A new machine-learning algorithm, specifically designed for multiobjective target optimization with an explic...

Alternating cationic copolymerization of 2-chloroethyl vinyl ether and cyclic trimers one monomer two aldehyde molecules were investigated to obtain polymers with ABCC-type sequences.

Organoboron catalysts including an ammonium salt separated by a few carbon–carbon bonds to boron center were designed and synthesized. Borinane-based organoboron exhibited highest activity for the copolymerization of CO 2 epoxides.

Difunctional iodo chain transfer agents (CTAs) were successfully employed in the iodine polymerization (ITP) of ethylene and its copolymerization with vinyl acetate to synthesize telechelic (co)polymers triblock copolymers.

The copolymerizations of a gaseous monomer (ethylene) and a liquid monomer (vinyl acetate) via emulsion and miniemulsion polymerizations are reported. Reactions in which the vinyl acetate was introduced in both batch and semibatch modes are carried out. (Ethylene introduction is always in a semibatch model since the polymerization is carried out under a constant pressure of ethylene in the reac...

copolymerization of ethylene and propylene was investigated using a 4th generation phthalate ziegler-natta catalyst in normal hexane in a buchi reactor. the effects of different mole fractions of [al]/[ti], [si]/[al] and various amounts of hydrogen on productivity and weight percent of ethylene on the product, were studied. in the copolymerization reactions, tri-isobutyl aluminum (tibal) was us...

Does statistical copolymerization of n-butyl methacrylate with benzyl lower the critical temperature required for vesicle-to-worm and worm-to-sphere transitions diblock copolymer nano-objects in mineral oil?

in this work, new biodegradable abcba type pentablock copolymers with different mole ratio of l-lactide and ppdo-b-peg-b-ppdo triblock copolymer were synthesized and characterized. in the first step, ppdo-b-peg-b-ppdo triblock copolymer was synthesized via a ring-opening polymerization of p-dioxanone (pdo) monomer with poly (ethylene glycol) (peg) using stannous octoate (sn(oct)2) as the cataly...