#polyolefins
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Me: Parafilm is a semi-transparent, flexible film composed of a blend of waxes and polyolefins. It is a non-toxic, tasteless, odorless, and self-sealing thermoplastic, which can be stretched up to 200%
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Me: The human genome only contains about 20,000 genes, but over a million copies of an ancient virus-like sequence called 'Alu' & half a million copies of another called 'L1' & together they make up 27% of your DNA.
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Me: Woodpeckers can wrap their tongues around their skulls, but it's a common misconception that that helps protect their brain from pecking impact. More likely it's just a feeding adaptation.
May 15, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Grupa Azoty Polyolefins, do której należy zbudowana za ponad 7 miliardów złotych fabryka polimerów w Policach, straciła zdolność do spłaty bieżących zobowiązań. Zarząd chce zawrzeć układ z wierzycielami, by sprzedać spółkę Orlenowi.
szczecin.wyborcza.pl/szczecin/7,3...
Gigantyczne problemy sztandarowej inwestycji rządu PiS. Spółka składa wniosek o upadłość
Grupa Azoty Polyolefins, do której należy zbudowana za ponad 7 miliardów złotych fabryka polimerów w Policach, straciła zdolność do spłaty bieżących zobowiązań. Zarząd chce zawrzeć układ z wierzyciela...
szczecin.wyborcza.pl
November 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Grupa Azoty Polyolefins, odpowiedzialna za wartą ponad 7 miliardów złotych fabrykę polimerów w Policach, straciła zdolność spłaty bieżących zobowiązań.

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Fabryka za 7 mld zł tonie. Nie wypalił wielki projekt PiS
Grupa Azoty Polyolefins, odpowiedzialna za wartą ponad 7 miliardów złotych fabrykę polimerów w Policach, straciła zdolność spłaty bieżących zobowiązań. Zarząd spółki złożył...
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November 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Asahi Kasei will significantly downsize its petrochemical business, withdrawing from the production of polyolefins and styrene at its Mizushima, Japan, site by around 2030. cen.acs.org/business/pet...

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May 14, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Saying the name of the bloke who wrote the music for Robocop when you’re a bottle and a half of wine deep
March 6, 2024 at 7:41 PM
April 15, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Published in #AngewandteChemieNovit: A Review on Functionalizations of C─H and C═C Bonds in Polyolefins Catalyzed by Transition-Metal Complexes by Nicodemo Ciccia & John Hartwig. Read it here: doi.org/10.1002/anov.70013
December 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We're hiring a postdoc to join our @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @molecularfoundry.lbl.gov plastics recycling team. Scope will include developing new reactions for selective functionalization of polyolefins, assessing properties and recyclability. phxc1b.rfer.us/LBLHM2EPD
Postdoctoral Researcher in Sustainable Polymer Chemistry in Bay Area, California, United States
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s (LBNL) Materials Science Division (MSD) has an opening for an Organic and Polymer Postdoctoral Fellow where Dr....
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April 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
i work in the polyolefins industry, and we manufacture a hundred million kg a year of polymer under airfree conditions no problem. To a certain extent, airfree is made easier by large scale bc surface area to volume ratio goes down
June 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Adnoc and OMV announce deal to combine their petrochemical assets

https://www.ft.com/content/0a12bac2-e7f1-4512-a913-428e34f0b598
Adnoc and OMV announce deal to combine their petrochemical assets
Two companies say they are creating the world’s fourth-largest player in plastics called polyolefins
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March 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Recyclable plastics can boost circularity, but their synthesis is challenging. Now a ring-strain matched concept for the tailored synthesis of circular polyolefins leads to an easy-to-repeat macromonomer–polymer–macromonomer lifecycle for improved plastics sustainability.

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Tailored synthesis of circular polyolefins - Nature Sustainability
Developing recyclable circular plastics is a viable approach to reshape the currently unsustainable plastics consumption pattern. Here the authors show a design to obtain recyclable polyolefin plastic...
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March 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Now online:

Article by Rui Tan, Shiyong Liu, Zhengbiao Zhang & co-workers

Synthesis of discrete oligoethylenes towards chemically recyclable polyolefins

www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($)
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Synthesis of discrete oligoethylenes towards chemically recyclable polyolefins - Nature Synthesis
The precision synthesis of uniform oligoethylenes with chain lengths of up to 576 carbon atoms is achieved via an iterative growth approach based on the Julia–Kocienski reaction. The oligoethylenes ar...
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January 2, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Just out in Science Advances! We create co-continuous blend architectures from diverse polyolefins using PDK chemistry, revealing in stride how microstructures within each phase communicate and align. Fantastic properties relevant to plastics recycling. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 15, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Now online:

News & Views on the Article by Yuting Zhou, Zhenchuang Xu & Jeffrey S. Moore

www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($)

Electrochemical upcycling of polyolefins into adaptable networks by Rhys W. Hughes & Brent S. Sumerlin

www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($)
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Electrochemical upcycling of polyolefins into adaptable networks - Nature Synthesis
Electrolysis enables selective dual C–H functionalization for transforming inert polyolefin deconstruction products into dynamic recyclable networks.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Our project aims to translate our recently developed process for the chemical recycling of polyolefins to industrial scales. This process converts polyolefins (the most common polymers in waste plastics) to important chemical feedstocks, including those used to make new polymers.
January 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Pleased to announce Ina Vollmer (Utrecht University) as a speaker at #INCOME2025 in Berlin! She works on upscaling mechanochemical recycling of polyolefins. Check out her JACS paper 👉 bit.ly/4f7OZrM — don’t miss her talk! #mechanochemistry
July 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Impressed by the first morning session at #INCOME2025! 🚀

Balaž (Slovak Acad. Sci.): mechanochemical leaching & milling

Vollmer (Utrecht): depolymerization of polyolefins

Tysoe (UW-Milwaukee): mech. stress & reaction rates

#Mechanochemistry #BAMResearch #HumboldtUni #SALSAAdlershof
September 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
📄 Title: "Chemical Recycling Enables Resource Utilization of Waste Fishing Nets"✍️ Lead author: Prof. Yong Tang (Academician, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.gr...

#ChemicalRecycling #CircularEconomy #Polyamide #Polyolefins
September 21, 2026 at 3:02 PM
I used to have fun making these tiles with the injection press
#OceanPlastic #Recycling #PreciousPlastic #Polyolefins
May 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
ADNOC Group and OMV to Create World's 4th Largest Polyolefins Company with $13.4 Billion Nova Chemicals Acquisition and $7.5 Billion Borouge 4 Expansion
March 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
'C–H Insertion Functionalization of Polyolefins for Versatile Polyolefin-Polyester Compatibilization' from Journal of the American Chemical Society is currently free to read as an #ACSEditorsChoice.

📖 Read the article: buff.ly/Xzbh1Vh
February 13, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Our joined work with @harder-research.bsky.social and @mikedelity.bsky.social is now online @rsc.org: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

If you are interested in bimetallics, ring-opening polymerization or both, you should definitely take a look.

Thanks to the team.

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Mono- and dinuclear β-oxo-δ-diiminate (BODDI) based catalysts for the ring-opening polymerization of L-lactide
Polyesters such as polylactic acid belong to the most useful biodegradable polymers being able to substitute polyolefins in many applications. In search for potent catalysts based on bio-compatible an...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM