Making degradable plastics using Laplace pressure (IMAGE)

Osaka Metropolitan University

Making degradable plastics using Laplace pressure

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A reaction using Laplace pressure takes place using the properties of the surrounding nanoscale droplet. The increased pressure inside the droplet unlocked normally inaccessible parts of the monomer’s ring structure, increasing the parts that could be used to make plastics.

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Osaka Metropolitan University

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