The present article comprehensively reviews the macromolecular synthesis using enzymes
as catalysts. Among the six main classes of enzymes, the three classes, oxidoreductases …

Polyester-based polymers represent excellent candidates in synthetic biodegradable and
bioabsorbable materials for medical applications owing to their tailorable properties. The …

We report a novel polyester material generated from readily available biobased 1, 18‐
octadecanedicarboxylic acid and ethylene glycol possesses a polyethylene‐like solid‐state …

Other than their established short-chain congeners, polycondensates based on long-chain
difunctional monomers are often dominated by the long methylene sequences of the repeat …

Biodegradable polymers are of current interest and chemical functionality in such materials
is often demanded in advanced biomedical applications. Functional groups often are not …

The vast majority of commodity materials are obtained from fossil fuels. However, many
studies predict that all fossil resources will be depleted within a few centuries. Biomass …

Polymeric materials, natural and unnatural, are indispensable to the modern society. They
are widely used from everyday life usages as commodity materials to industry and …

There has been an exponential increase in interest in the area of in vitro enzyme-catalyzed
organic reactions, since many families of enzymes can be utilized for transformation of not …

Polyamides are one of the most important polymers. Long-chain aliphatic polyamides could
bridge the gap between traditional polyamides and polyethylenes. Here we report an …

Enzymatic polymerization represents today an effective and preferable alternative to
conventional chemically-catalyzed processes. It offers significant advantages, summarized …