June 2023 | Our product of the month is the homopolymer of 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (SP-4P-3-004) also called poly(HEMA) or pHEMA. This methacrylic polymer bears pending hydroxyl groups conferring hydrophilic properties to the polymer that can be used to form [...
May 2023 | Epoxymethyl di(m)ethyl phosphonate (SP-3-15-003 & SP-3-15-006) are small reactive building-blocks that could be involved in both organic and polymerization reactions. Indeed, the epoxy group can be used in ring opening reactions with several nucleophilic [...
April 2023 | Poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) and Poly(ethyleneglycol) (PEG) are commonly known as non-toxic and biocompatible polymers. Based on the interactions with water, these two polymers exhibit opposite properties: hydrophobicity for PDMS and hydrophilicity for PEG. By chemically linking [...
March 2023 | In the course of the development of renewable Isocyanate-free Poly(urethane)s, SPECIFC POLYMERS offers its range of sustainable cyclocarbonates building-blocks. Among them, three references: SP-68-010, SP-68-015 and SP-68-020 are di- or (...
February 2023 | SP-40-005 is the Ethyl-acetoxyacrylate (EAA), a reactive precursor with a low boiling point (84-85°C) and used in a large range of chemical reactions. This 2-oxyacrylate functionalized by an acetyl group can be used as monomer in conventional radical polymerization [...
January 2023 | SP-9S-5-008 is a monofunctional epoxy building-block synthesized from vanillin. In addition to the glycidyl ether functional group, this aromatic product is also bearing an aldehyde moiety in para position which makes the Vanillin monoglycidyl ether ...
December 2022 | SP-01-003 is a fluorinated alkyl chain functionalized with a phosphonic acid moiety. This building block is of high interest in coating applications since the phosphonic acid group brings anchoring properties toward metallic surfaces [...
November 2022 | SP-1P-6-003 is a poly(ethylene glycol) monofunctionalized with a thiol end group. The molecular weight of the PEG chain is 500g/mol, that leads to a liquid product at room temperature. The thiol group can react by thiol-ene coupling reaction with various (...
October 2022 | SP-9S-5-004 is one of our sustainable epoxy resins synthesized from D-isosorbide. By bearing two epoxy groups, this resin can be used as sugar-derived resins in many applications such as the development of new hybrids or composites as well as coatings for...
September 2022 | MAPC1 (SP-41-003) and its acidic form MAPC1 acid (SP-41-007) are ones of the most sell and used phophonate functional monomers from SPECIFIC POLYMERS R&D product portfolio. Indeed, the specificity of the phosphorus containing (...