...Bassam Tarablsi, PhD; Florent Jasinski, PhD; Emeline Lobry, PhD; Abraham Chemtob, PhD; Didier Le Nouen, PhD; Adrien Criqui, PhD Abundance, low-cost and ene functionality are the key assets of terpenes in view of a large-scale use as renewable monomers in radical polymerization. However...

... and biodegradable polymers as a result of the drive to use renewable feedstocks as an alternative to petrochemicals in addition to their significant potential in biomedical applications. Synthetic strategies to access polymers from malic acid based on both condensation and ring-opening polymerization, across...

.../10.1680gmat.13.00005_SupplementaryInformation.pdf 06 05 2013 18 06 2013 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2013 green chemistry lactone polymerization The term ‘Green Chemistry’ was established around 1990. ¹ Through its evolution, it has become evident...

...Liu Qian, BS; Robert T. Mathers, PhD; Krishnan Damodaran, PhD; Bhaskar Godugu, PhD; Stewart P. Lewis, PhD Methylaluminoxane (MAO)/silyl halide-based initiator systems greatly improve the sustainability of isobutene (IB) polymerizations by eliminating halogenated solvents, reducing energy...

...Catherine O’Neill, MSc; Candace Fowler, MSc; Philip Jessop, PhD; Michael Cunningham, PhD Amidine-based switchable surfactants can be used as stabilizers during emulsion polymerization, and the resulting latexes can then be destabilized simply by the removal of CO₂. Polystyrene and poly...