He and his colleagues in Munich, Groningen, Bordeaux and Berlin used organic, sulfur-containing monomers to spontaneously get cyclic macromolecules with a complex shape, as illustrated by their ...

Colloidal nanocrystals are solution-grown, nanometre-sized, inorganic particles that are stabilized by a layer of surfactants attached to their surface. The inorganic cores possess useful ...

Primarily made from fossil-based feedstock, synthetic polymers are organic macromolecules consisting of many repeating subunits called monomers. The polymers' exceptional durability and remarkable ...

More importantly, his results helped to establish, without further criticism, the idea of macromolecules as the building blocks of the organic matter. The Golden Age of Polymers The word "polymer" was ...

Compared with linear polymers, dendritic macromolecules are more amorphous, and are usually soluble in organic solvents because of their branched structures. Dendritic macromolecules can be ...

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A team of materials scientists and engineers at ETH Zurich has developed a light-triggered chemical process for breaking down certain polymers into their constituent monomers. The paper is ...