In polymer chemistry, polymerization (American English), or polymerisation (British English), is a process of reacting monomer molecules together in a...

chemistry, polymerisation inhibitors (US: polymerization inhibitors) are chemical compounds added to monomers to prevent their self-polymerisation. Unsaturated...

Type of chain-growth polymerisation reaction involving cyclic olefins...

The degree of polymerization, or DP, is the number of monomeric units in a macromolecule or polymer or oligomer molecule. For a homopolymer, there is only...

Chain-growth polymerization (AE) or chain-growth polymerisation (BE) is a polymerization technique where monomer molecules add onto the active site on...

and biocompatibility. Anionic addition polymerization Chain-growth polymerisation Chain transfer Cobalt-mediated radical polymerization Living polymerization...

In polymer chemistry, living polymerization is a form of chain growth polymerization where the ability of a growing polymer chain to terminate has been...

IUPAC definition Chain polymerization in which active centers are ions or ion pairs. Note 1: Usually the chain-ends are ions, although ions can also be...

In polymer chemistry, condensation polymers are any kind of polymers whose process of polymerization involves a condensation reaction (i.e. a small molecule...

exothermal ring-opening polymerisation without releasing any chemical, which translates in near zero shrinkage upon polymerisation. Thermosetting polymer...

Plasma polymerization (or glow discharge polymerization) uses plasma sources to generate a gas discharge that provides energy to activate or fragment gaseous...

Examples of monomer systems that undergo step-growth polymerisation. The reactive functional groups are highlighted....

transferring an alkyl chain to another polymer. Ring-opening metathesis polymerisation (ROMP) produces unsaturated polymers from cycloalkenes or bicycloalkenes...

Shapiro reaction). The formation of longer alkenes via the step-wise polymerisation of smaller ones is appealing, as ethylene (the smallest alkene) is both...

IUPAC definition anionic polymerization: An ionic polymerization in which the kinetic-chain carriers are anions. In polymer chemistry, anionic addition...

decreases the rate of a chemical reaction Polymerisation inhibitor, a substance that inhibits unwanted polymerisation of monomers Cognitive inhibition, the...

and mechanical properties known as polyphosphazenes produced from the polymerisation of hexachlorophosphazene. Hexachlorophosphazene is a cyclic molecule...

distillation Catalytic cracking Catalytic reforming Alkylation Isomerisation Polymerisation Hydrodesulphurisation Sweetening Hydrocracking Solvent deasphalting...

distillation Catalytic cracking Catalytic reforming Alkylation Isomerisation Polymerisation Hydrodesulphurisation Sweetening Hydrocracking Solvent deasphalting...

In polymer chemistry, emulsion polymerization is a type of radical polymerization that usually starts with an emulsion incorporating water, monomers, and...

Kargin, V. A.; Kabanov, V. A.; Zubov, V. P.; Papisov, I. M. (1960). "Polymerisation of acetone". Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR. 134 (5): 1098–1099. Kawai,...

(polyimines) can be synthesised from multivalent aldehydes and amines. The polymerisation reaction proceeds directly when the aldehyde and amine monomers are...

ions in the polymerisation sub-unit, and the structural-chemical distortion of the polymerisation unit effectively stalls the polymerisation process by...

Lebedev's main works are devoted to polymerisation of diene hydrocarbons. He was the first to research the polymerisation of butadiene (1910–1913). In 1910...

items. In 1920, Hermann Staudinger published his seminal work "Über Polymerisation", in which he proposed that polymers were in fact long chains of atoms...

A silicate is any member of a family of polyatomic anions consisting of silicon and oxygen, usually with the general formula [SiO(4-2x)− 4−x] n, where...

solid with the approximate formula (HNCO)x. It is the product of the polymerisation of cyanic acid together with its cyclic trimer cyanuric acid. It is...

The dextrose equivalent gives an indication of the average degree of polymerisation (DP) for starch sugars. As a rule of thumb, DE × DP = 120. In all glucose...

distillation Catalytic cracking Catalytic reforming Alkylation Isomerisation Polymerisation Hydrodesulphurisation Sweetening Hydrocracking Solvent deasphalting...

asteroid. The most likely explanation is a combination of two effects, the polymerisation of hydrogen cyanide and a phase transition of amorphous water ice, which...