Polymerization Quotes

Polymer chemistry provides an excellent means of studying metathesis catalysts: miniscule catalyst loadings have the capacity to generate large amounts of polymeric material, the structure of which can provide a historical record of catalyst activity.

Most commercial products that contain organic molecules possess at least one carbon-carbon double bond, or if one is not present, it is likely that an olefin was used in its preparation. This being the case, the potential applications of olefin metathesis are endless.

Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print.

Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.

All vinyl polymers may be regarded as built from monomeric units containing a tertiary carbon atom.

No one believed me when I said it was possible to put fabric in resin.

Like the Tebbe complex, ruthenium olefin metathesis catalysts can be used for the production of living polymers.

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.