The monomer unit, β-butyrolactone (BBL), contains a chiral carbon and the organisation of these stereocentres in relation to each other – an effect known as tacticity – has a profound impact on the ...

which are themselves made up of smaller chemical units called monomers. Examples of polymers include proteins, cellulose, and nucleic acids. The 2D mechanically interlocked material is a polymer ...

Dental hard tissues (enamel and dentin) achieve a strong bond with restoratives polymers by means of dental adhesives. These dental adhesives are compounds of hydrophilic and hydrophobic monomers, ...

Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Metropolitan University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan Department of Materials Science and Engineering, ...

Autonomous nanocomputing agents made of nucleic acids and proteins are an appealing idea, and two decades of research has shown that the engineered agents act under real physical and biochemical ...