Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a groundbreaking nickel-based catalyst that could transform the way the ...

The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern ...

As a result, the catalyst allows for the selective breakdown of branched polyolefins (such as isotactic polypropylene) when they are mixed with unbranched polyolefins — effectively separating them ...

Now it has been shown that a single-site nickel catalyst can preferentially and efficiently cleave branched C–C bonds, enabling the hydrogenolytic separation of isotactic polypropylene from ...

When a plastic fails unexpectedly, the cause could lie anywhere — processing, design, material choice or even additives. But ...

A particular kind of heterogeneous nucleation, i.e., cross-nucleation, is sometimes observed in polymorphic substances, when a new crystal structure nucleates on the surface of a crystal of a ...

The miscibility of perdeuterated isotactic polypropylene (d-PP) and ethylene−1-hexene random copolymer (EHR) blends, which were polymerized by metallocene catalyst, was investigated by small-angle ...

The dielectric properties of two grades of Bi-oriented isotactic polypropylene (BOiPP) are studied, using a variety of techniques: breakdown field measurements, dielectric spectroscopy, thermally ...