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 ...

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 ...