Department of Chemistry and Forensics, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom Metal-organic frameworks, MOFs, offer an effective template for polymerisation of polymers with precisely ...

For the first time, researchers have visualised the step-by-step formation of polyethylene from simple monomers. They achieved this thanks to scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM), which provides ...

International researchers have gone through the contents of their liquor cabinets to see if alcoholic drinks make good solvents for single-electron transfer living radical polymerisation (SET-LRP).

Objectives Tetrafluoroethylene (TFE), a compound used for the production of fluorinated polymers including polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), increases liver and kidney cancer and leukaemia incidence in ...

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Polymerisation is the process in which many small monomer units combine to form one large polymer molecule. The alkenes ethene and propene are two important feedstocks in the petrochemical industry ...

Draw the structure of the monomer but use C–C instead of C=C. Draw brackets around the structure with a long bond passing through each one. The table shows the structure of ethene and its polymer. The ...