A team of South Korean scientists and chemical company LG Chem Ltd. have developed a new fermentation process that enables polylactic acid polymers and copolymers to be produced in a single-step ...

(Gorinchem, Netherlands) and AkzoNobel is designed to help suppliers of polylactic acid (PLA)—a bioplastic made from biorenewable, carbohydrate-based raw materials—to better control the polymerization ...

After all, recent studies that have examined that issue have determined that the use of such crops for industrial purposes does not impact on land use for food crops, nor is it the reason for rising ...

In living ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP), a transition-metal–carbene complex polymerizes ring-strained olefins with very good control of the molecular weight of the resulting polymers.

Across the world, a considerable amount of the plastics and synthetic fibers used daily are produced from polymerization processes. Thus, there is a significant demand for process optimization and ...