Sustainable polymers

AK Mohanty, F Wu, R Mincheva… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Sustainable polymers are materials derived from renewable, recycled and waste carbon
resources and their combinations, which at the end of life can be recycled, biodegraded or …

Polymers without petrochemicals: sustainable routes to conventional monomers

G Hayes, M Laurel, D MacKinnon, T Zhao… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Access to a wide range of plastic materials has been rationalized by the increased demand
from growing populations and the development of high-throughput production systems …

Precision polymer synthesis by controlled radical polymerization: Fusing the progress from polymer chemistry and reaction engineering

YN Zhou, JJ Li, TT Wang, YY Wu, ZH Luo - Progress in Polymer Science, 2022 - Elsevier
During the first 100 years of polymer science, controlled radical polymerization (also
recommended as reversible deactivation radical polymerization) is undoubtedly a …

Biorenewable and circular polydiketoenamine plastics

J Demarteau, B Cousineau, Z Wang, B Bose… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Amid growing concerns over the human health and environmental impacts of plastic waste,
the most promising solution would be to build a circular plastics economy where …

[HTML][HTML] Designing a circular carbon and plastics economy for a sustainable future

F Vidal, ER van der Marel, RWF Kerr, C McElroy… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The linear production and consumption of plastics today is unsustainable. It creates large
amounts of unnecessary and mismanaged waste, pollution and carbon dioxide emissions …

Muconic acid production from glucose and xylose in Pseudomonas putida via evolution and metabolic engineering

C Ling, GL Peabody, D Salvachúa, YM Kim… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Muconic acid is a bioprivileged molecule that can be converted into direct replacement
chemicals for incumbent petrochemicals and performance-advantaged bioproducts. In this …

Biobased high-performance aromatic–aliphatic polyesters with complete recyclability

YM Tu, XM Wang, X Yang, HZ Fan… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The development of high-performance recyclable polymers represents a circular plastics
economy to address the urgent issues of plastic sustainability. Herein, we design a series of …

Novel bridge assistance strategy for tailoring crosslinking networks within soybean-meal-based biocomposites to balance mechanical and biodegradation properties

Y Kan, J Li, S Zhang, Z Gao - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
The cost-effective fabrication of environmentally friendly soybean meal (SM)-based
biocomposites with tailorable biodegradability, mechanical properties, and water resistance …

Degradable and recyclable polymers by reversible deactivation radical polymerization

MR Martinez, K Matyjaszewski - CCS Chemistry, 2022 - chinesechemsoc.org
Reversible deactivation radical polymerization (RDRP) provides unprecedented control over
polymer composition, size, functionality, and topology. Various materials, such as linear …

Tandem chemical deconstruction and biological upcycling of poly (ethylene terephthalate) to β-ketoadipic acid by Pseudomonas putida KT2440

AZ Werner, R Clare, TD Mand, I Pardo, KJ Ramirez… - Metabolic …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Poly (ethylene terephthalate)(PET) is the most abundantly consumed synthetic
polyester and accordingly a major source of plastic waste. The development of …