Remolding and deconstruction of industrial thermosets via carboxylic acid-catalyzed bifunctional silyl ether exchange

KEL Husted, CM Brown, P Shieh… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Convenient strategies for the deconstruction and reprocessing of thermosets could improve
the circularity of these materials, but most approaches developed to date do not involve …

Efficient Manufacture, Deconstruction, and Upcycling of High-Performance Thermosets and Composites

EM Lloyd, JC Cooper, P Shieh, DG Ivanoff… - ACS Applied …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Thermoset polymers and fiber-reinforced polymer composites possess the chemical,
physical, and mechanical properties necessary for energy-efficient vehicles and structures …

Thermally Robust yet Deconstructable and Chemically Recyclable High‐Density Polyethylene (HDPE)‐Like Materials Based on Si− O Bonds

AM Johnson, JA Johnson - Angewandte Chemie, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Polyethylene (PE) is the most widely produced synthetic polymer. By installing chemically
cleavable bonds into the backbone of PE, it is possible to produce chemically …

Molecularly designed additives for chemically deconstructable thermosets without compromised thermomechanical properties

KEL Husted, P Shieh, DJ Lundberg… - ACS Macro …, 2021 - ACS Publications
“Drop-in” additives that introduce chemically cleavable bonds into thermosets without
compromising thermomechanical properties could enable triggered material deconstruction …

A Cleavable Crosslinking Strategy for Commodity Polymer Functionalization and Generation of Reprocessable Thermosets

L Bi, B Godwin, MJ Baran, R Nazir… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Covalently crosslinked polymeric materials, known as thermosets, possess enhanced
mechanical strength and thermal stability relative to the corresponding uncrosslinked …

Sustainable and recyclable super engineering thermoplastic from biorenewable monomer

SA Park, H Jeon, H Kim, SH Shin, S Choy… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Environmental and health concerns force the search for sustainable super engineering
plastics (SEPs) that utilise bio-derived cyclic monomers, eg isosorbide instead of restricted …

Dissociate transfer exchange of tandem dynamic bonds endows covalent adaptable networks with fast reprocessability and high performance

X Xu, S Ma, H Feng, J Qiu, S Wang, Z Yu, J Zhu - Polymer Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Development of covalent adaptable networks (CANs) has connected thermosets and
thermoplastics and brought about various functions. However, combining the high …

Direct and Catalyst-Free Ester Metathesis Reaction for Covalent Adaptable Networks

S Yang, W Liu, J Guo, Z Yang, Z Qiao… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Thermosetting polymers possess excellent environmental resistance and mechanical
properties but cannot be reprocessed due to their covalently cross-linked structures …

Green and facile preparation of readily dual-recyclable thermosetting polymers with superior stability based on asymmetric acetal

Q Li, S Ma, S Wang, Y Liu, MA Taher, B Wang… - …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Recycling thermosets have become extremely important due to their ecological and
economic benefits. The development of thermosets that undergo reversible polymerization …

Vanillin‐Derived Thermally Reprocessable and Chemically Recyclable Schiff‐Base Epoxy Thermosets

S Subramaniyan, M Bergoglio… - Global …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The paradigm shift from traditional petroleum‐based non‐recyclable thermosets to biobased
repeatedly recyclable materials is required to move toward circular bioeconomy. Here, two …