A polybutene safety assessment published in the Journal of the American College of Toxicology defines this common ingredient as an isotactic polymer of isobutene and n-butene. Polymers are substances ...

Giulio Natta and Karl Ziegler were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on polymers that “paved the way for new and highly useful industrial processes.” In other words: With their ...

With a first class honours degree he was encouraged to go on to do a PhD on the study of isotactic polymers. In 1963 he joined the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). In the same year he took up a post ...

Fukuhara, Koichi Mizawa, Takahiro Inoue, Tomohiro Kumamoto, Hirotaka Terai, Yoshihide Matsuura, Hiroatsu and Viras, Kyriakos 2005. Chain-length-dependent conformational transformation and melting ...