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The macromolecules self-synthesize -- no further conditions are necessary. "We only put one monomer type in a flask and wait," Huc says.

Liquid crystal monomers (LCMs) are synthetic organic chemicals used in manufacturing liquid crystal displays (LCDs) present in numerous digital electronic devices. As the use of digital ...

Huijun Su, Shaobo Shi, Ming Zhu, Doug Crump, Robert J. Letcher, John P. Giesy, Guanyong Su, Persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic properties of liquid crystal monomers and their detection in indoor ...

A team of materials scientists and engineers at ETH Zurich has developed a light-triggered chemical process for breaking down certain polymers into their constituent monomers.

At room temperature and 0.7 GPa, ethylene is in the liquid phase 5 and no reaction of the sample is observed when held at this pressure for very long periods. The behaviour of the sample was ...