One of the biomass polymers, poly(lactic acid) (PLA), has attracted much attention as an alternative for petroleum-based polymers. 1 It is well known that PLA has two ...

Tailor-made membranes offer a cleaner method for the industrial-scale separation of chemical mixtures, says Suzana Nunes. But first we need to make their manufacture greener. Porous polymeric ...

For collecting Infra Red spectral data of liquid or solid samples it is desirable to gain a spectral range from 4000cm-1 to 400cm-1. Conventionally liquid transmission cells with KBr windows were used ...

I've got a question for you guys. Do you think I can fit this length of polystyrene into this jar? Yes. No. No? Yeah? I like that – you lot have got some faith in me! Excellent. Right, this is what we ...

Young Hae Choi, a natural products chemist at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and his coworkers discovered these new solvents while studying metabolites found in cells. The researchers realized ...