Poly(2-vinylpyridine 1-oxide) inhibits the cytotoxic effects of quartz in cell cultures but the syndiotactic polymer behaves differently from the isotactic and atactic polymers. In each case ...

Styrene was purified by overnight treatment with calcium hydride followed by percolation trough activated basic alumina. Toluene was refluxed and distilled in the presence of sodium/benzophenone and ...

Professor Hideto Tsuji and Assistant Professor Yuki Arakawa at the Toyohashi University of Technology have developed a method for synthesizing a "pure" alternating copolymer of L- and D-lactic acids ...