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Metal based oxo anions remains as one of the major contributor towards fresh water contamination. The bioaccumulation and biomagnification through food chain poses threat to the sustainability of environment. We introduce a novel guanidinium based cationic porous organic polymer which was designed aiming to the fast and efficient removal of permanganate via electrostatic interaction between cationic

Cyclic polymers, lacking chain ends and featuring unique topological constraints, offer distinctive mechanical and thermal behaviors. This study synthesizes and compares semicrystalline linear and cyclic polycyclooctene (PCOE), with linear PCOE produced via ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) and cyclic PCOE via ring-expansion metathesis polymerization (REMP). Mechanical, thermal, and crystalline

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The Acknowledgment of financial support was inadvertently omitted. The corrected Acknowledgments should read as given here. This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea Government (MSIT) (2021R1A2C2007339, 2018R1A5A1024127, and RS-2023-00281671). The Institute of Engineering Research at Seoul National University provided research facilities for

Radical ring-opening polymerisation (RROP) of cyclic ketene acetals (CKAs) is a powerful avenue for the synthesis of biodegradable polyesters with the potential to replace non-decomposable conventional polymers. The radical polymerisation of CKAs is – surprisingly – accelerated by UV light, yet to-date the cause of the acceleration is unknown. We herein demonstrate how highly wavelength-resolved photochemical

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The development of powerful catalysis or methodologies for the synthesis of fundamentally and technologically important multiblock copolymers is a perpetual task. Dual-initiating Lewis pair (LP) catalysts for living/controlled polymerizations of methyacrylates have demonstrated to be an effective approach to all-acrylic multiblock copolymers. However, the utilization of metal-based Lewis acids (LAs)

Wavelength-dependent photoreactions present an opportunity to achieve chemoselectivity of functional groups that otherwise demonstrate similar reactivity under traditional thermal conditions. Relying on this concept, we demonstrate that a difunctional iniferter with two thiocarbonylthio groups can be divergently photoactivated to prepare polymeric nanoparticles via polymerization-induced self-assembly

Correction for ‘Axial-phenyl-constrained bis(imino)acenaphthene-nickel precatalysts enhance ethylene polymerization’ by Quanchao Wang et al., Polym. Chem., 2024, https://doi.org/10.1039/d4py01110d.

In this study, the polymerization-induced phase separation (PIPS) method was employed to prepare thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) without using any compatibilizers. The polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) was dispersed in the Poly-tetramethylene-ether-glycol (PTMG), and underwent phase separation during the polymerization, the TPU/SiR TPEs which were composed of crosslinked silicone rubber (SiR) as the dispersed