One of the biomass polymers, poly(lactic acid) (PLA), has attracted much attention as an alternative for petroleum-based polymers. 1 It is well known that PLA has two ...

For collecting Infra Red spectral data of liquid or solid samples it is desirable to gain a spectral range from 4000cm-1 to 400cm-1. Conventionally liquid transmission cells with KBr windows were used ...

Young Hae Choi, a natural products chemist at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and his coworkers discovered these new solvents while studying metabolites found in cells. The researchers realized ...

I've got a question for you guys. Do you think I can fit this length of polystyrene into this jar? Yes. No. No? Yeah? I like that – you lot have got some faith in me! Excellent. Right, this is what we ...

Simple distillation close simple distillationSeparation method used to separate a solvent from a solution. is a method for separating the solvent from a solution. For example, water can be separated ...