Biometric polymerization: Liquid crystals enable chirl polymer synthesis

Biometric polymerization: Liquid crystals enable chirl polymer synthesis



Using alternatively active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers at the University of Tsukuba have successfully achieved the living polymerization of polymers with aligned packed structures. In this process, alternatively passive monomers adopt chirl (mirror-image) structure in liquid crystals because they grow, resulting in alternatively active polymers.