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    Producing N-Containing Chemicals from Biomass for High Performance Thermosets

    Chemicals containing nitrogen atoms or N-containing chemicals (NCCs) are pivotal building blocks for polymers and composites that have high interest in technological fields, especially when they can be endowed...

    Jiahui Li, Qi Cao, Zhihuan Weng in Production of N-containing Chemicals and M… (2023)

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    A novel phthalazinone-based epoxy resin with excellent rheological property and intrinsic flame retardancy

    Phthalazinone is a critical structural factor for high-performance polymer material, which is achieved by polar structure and the structure characteristic of unsymmetrical and kink non-coplanar. In this study,...

    Fengfeng Zhang, Yuliang Li, Zhihuan Weng, Tianpeng Zhang in Journal of Materials Science (2021)

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    Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) as a Way to Prepare New Mixed-Oxide Catalyst Supports: The Case of Alumina Addition to Silica-Supported Platinum for the Selective Hydrogenation of Cinnamaldehyde

    The case is made here for the power of using atomic layer deposition (ALD) as a way to induce changes in the nature of the oxides used as supports in many catalytic processes. ALD provides a route to grow thin...

    Zhihuan Weng, Francisco Zaera in Topics in Catalysis (2019)

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    Synthesis of an aromatic N-heterocycle derived from biomass and its use as a polymer feedstock

    Aromatic N-heterocyclic compounds are very important chemicals, which are currently produced mostly from petroleum. Here we report that a pyridazine-based compound 6-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)pyridazin-3(2H)-...

    Yu Qi, **yan Wang, Yan Kou, Hongchang Pang, Shouhai Zhang, Nan Li in Nature Communications (2019)

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    Synthesis of Chiral Dendrimer-Encapsulated Nanoparticle (DEN) Catalysts

    Several synthetic strategies were developed for the preparation of chiral dendrimer-encapsulated Pt nanoparticle (Pt DEN) catalysts. In one approach, regular OH-terminated polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers wer...

    Zhihuan Weng, Francisco Zaera in Topics in Catalysis (2018)

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    Phthalonitrile-functionalized poly(ether imide) oligomers derived from phthalazinone-containing dianhydride: facile synthesis, curing and properties

    A novel series of soluble and curable poly(ether imide) oligomers (PPEI-Phs) containing phthalazinone moiety and terminal phthalonitrile groups were prepared from an excess amount of phthalazinone-based dianhy...

    Cheng Liu, Encheng Lin, Lishuai Zong, Chengde Liu, Guipeng Yu in Polymer Bulletin (2018)