The use of elemental sulfur as an alternative feedstock for polymeric materials

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 518-524

  Chung, Woo Jin ^a   Griebel, Jared J ^a   Kim, Eui Tae ^b   Yoon, Hyunsik ^b   Simmonds, Adam G ^a   Ji, Hyun Jun ^a   Dirlam, Philip T ^a   Glass, Richard S ^a   Wie, Jeong Jae ^c   Nguyen, Ngoc A ^c   Guralnick, Brett W ^c   Park, Jungjin ^b   Somogyi, Árpád ^a   Theato, Patrick ^b,d   Mackay, Michael E ^c   Sung, Yung Eun ^b   Char, Kookheon ^b   Pyun, Jeffrey ^a,b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENE; LITHIUM; POLYMER; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; FLOW KINETICS; KINETICS; POLYMERIZATION; POWER SUPPLY; SOLUBILITY; SYNTHESIS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

ALKENES; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; KINETICS; LITHIUM; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS; RHEOLOGY; SOLUBILITY; SULFUR; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879118567     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1624     Document Type: Article

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