Plastics pollution is causing an environmental crisis, prompting the development of new
approaches for recycling, and upcycling. Here, we review challenges and opportunities in …

Block copolymers form the basis of the most ubiquitous materials such as thermoplastic
elastomers, bridge interphases in polymer blends, and are fundamental for the development …

Ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) belongs to an emerging class of high-
performance specialty polymers with a unique set of properties and applications. The field …

Polyolefins have dominated materials technology over the last century and remain among
the most used materials, despite environmental problems have emerged and their public …

Since the pioneering advances of Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta during the early 1950s, a
continuing series of breakthroughs in research and industrial innovations have greatly …

The development and characterization of self-healing synthetic polymeric materials have
been inspired by biological systems in which damage triggers an autonomic healing …

The field of olefin polymerization catalysis has experienced a phenomenal acceleration in
research activity over the past 5 years, with many academic and industrial research …

1.1. General Overview Polyolefinic materials, exemplified by polyethylenes (PEs),
polypropylenes (PPs), and ethylene/R-olefin amorphous copolymers, display many notable …

1.1. Inspired by Nature In many enzymes, such as ureases (Figure 1), two or more metal
centers are poised in close proximity to activate both electrophilic and nucleophilic …

Sterically demanding NiII α-diimine precatalysts were synthesized utilizing 2, 6-bis
(diphenylmethyl)-4-methyl aniline. When activated with methylaluminoxane, the catalyst …