Vitrimers: Current research trends and their emerging applications

J Zheng, ZM Png, SH Ng, GX Tham, E Ye, SS Goh… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of recyclable plastics is a key research focus in today's world due to their
environmental issues, and non-renewability concerns. Recently, vitrimeric materials have …

On the welding of vitrimers: Chemistry, mechanics and applications

Q Shi, C Jin, Z Chen, L An… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Linear chains in thermoplastics make them relatively weak in performance but inherently
weldable and recyclable. By contrast, thermosets with permanently crosslinked networks …

Polymerizations with elemental sulfur: from petroleum refining to polymeric materials

T Lee, PT Dirlam, JT Njardarson… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The production of elemental sulfur from petroleum refining has created a technological
opportunity to increase the valorization of elemental sulfur by the synthesis of high …

Polymers with dynamic bonds: adaptive functional materials for a sustainable future

S Samanta, S Kim, T Saito… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Polymeric materials play critical role in many current technologies. Among them, adaptive
polymeric materials with dynamic (reversible) bonds exhibit unique properties and provide …

On the Mechanism of the Inverse Vulcanization of Elemental Sulfur: Structural Characterization of Poly(sulfur-random-(1,3-diisopropenylbenzene))

J Bao, KP Martin, E Cho, KS Kang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Organosulfur polymers, such as those derived from elemental sulfur, are an important new
class of macromolecules that have recently emerged via the inverse vulcanization process …

Mechanochemical synthesis of inverse vulcanized polymers

P Yan, W Zhao, F McBride, D Cai, J Dale… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Inverse vulcanization, a sustainable platform, can transform sulfur, an industrial by-product,
into polymers with broad promising applications such as heavy metal capture …

Biosourced acetal and Diels–Alder adduct concurrent polyurethane covalent adaptable network

Q Li, S Ma, P Li, B Wang, H Feng, N Lu, S Wang… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conventional polyurethane (PU) thermosets are built by nonrenewable petrifaction
resources and are burdensome to be recycled, reprocessed, and reshaped in virtue of their …

Stretchable and durable inverse vulcanized polymers with chemical and thermal recycling

P Yan, W Zhao, SJ Tonkin, JM Chalker… - Chemistry of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Inverse vulcanized polymer materials have received considerable attention as a way to use
sulfur, an industrial byproduct, as a starting material for synthesis. The resulting high-sulfur …

Bio-based reprocessable and degradable epoxy resins via inverse vulcanization

Y Jin, C Hu, Z Wang, Z Xia, R Li, S Shi… - ACS Sustainable …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Designing sustainable epoxy resins with intrinsic recyclability and degradability has become
vital in polymer science. Here, we report sulfur chain-modified epoxy networks (S x E y U z) …

A fast autonomous healing magnetic elastomer for instantly recoverable, modularly programmable, and thermorecyclable soft robots

Y Cheng, KH Chan, XQ Wang, T Ding… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Intrinsically self‐healing stretchable polymers have been intensively explored for soft robotic
applications due to their mechanical compliance and damage resilience. However, their …