By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers at University of Tsukuba have successfully achieved ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers have successfully achieved the living polymerization of polymers with aligned helical structures. In this process, optically ...

For the first time, they achieved asymmetric (chiral) living polymerization of optically ... is analogous to the enzymatic growth of amino acids with chiral structures in vivo, which leads to ...

IN previous publications we have reported on the polymerization of representatives of normal 1 and of basic 2 α-amino-acids. In the present communication the synthesis of poly-aspartic acid is ...

Alkynes - Acidic character, addition of hydrogen, halogens, water and hydrogen halides, polymerization ... PROTEINS - Elementary idea of 𝛼-amino acids, peptide bond, polypeptides, proteins ...

The root causes of most forms of Alzheimer's disease largely remain a mystery. Now, researchers have revealed a new piece of ...

Car tires, replacement hip joints, bowling balls—these and other items are made from a class of plastics called thermosets, ...

Frontiers Science Center for Synthetic Biology (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China State Key Laboratory of Synthetic ...