Recyclable/degradable materials via the insertion of labile/cleavable bonds using a comonomer approach

C Lefay, Y Guillaneuf - Progress in Polymer Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Polymers have many advantages such as low weight, low cost, and, importantly, stability
under thermal, chemical, and mechanical stress. This stability, on the other hand, leads to …

Water-soluble conjugated polymers for bioelectronic systems

Z Wang, H Lin, M Zhang, W Yu, C Zhu, P Wang… - Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioelectronics is an interdisciplinary field of research that aims to establish a synergy
between electronics and biology. Contributing to a deeper understanding of bioelectronic …

Biobased, degradable, and conjugated poly (azomethine) s

A Uva, A Lin, H Tran - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023 - ACS Publications
Carotenoids are a class of biobased conjugated molecules that bear a resemblance to the
substructure of polyacetylene, a well-known conductive but insoluble polymer. Solubility is …

Dynamic Covalent Adaptable Polyimide Hybrid Dielectric Films with Superior Recyclability

B Wan, M Xiao, X Dong, X Yang, MS Zheng… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Polyimides (PIs) used in advanced electrical and electronic devices can be electrically/
mechanically damaged, resulting in a significant waste of resources. Closed‐loop chemical …

Degradable semiconducting polymers without long-range order for on-demand degradation of transient electronics

JA Chiong, L Michalek, AE Peña-Alcántara… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Current understanding of molecular design principles for degradable imine-based polymer
semiconductors is limited to semicrystalline polymer morphologies. Herein, we design and …

Depolymerizable and recyclable luminescent polymers with high light-emitting efficiencies

W Liu, Y Wu, A Vriza, C Zhang, H Jung, S Hu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Luminescent polymers are of great interest in a number of photonic technologies, including
electroluminescence, bioimaging, medical diagnosis, bio-stimulation and security signage …

Direct Arylation Polymerization of Degradable Imine-Based Conjugated Polymers

NSY Hsu, A Lin, A Uva, SH Huang, H Tran - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
The development and optimization of reliable polymerization methods are needed for the
synthesis of degradable imine-based conjugated polymers, which are attractive materials for …

Realizing intrinsically stretchable semiconducting polymer films by nontoxic additives

HW Cheng, S Zhang, L Michalek, X Ji, S Luo… - ACS Materials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Stretchable polymer semiconductors are essential materials to realize soft skin-like
electronics. However, most high-mobility semiconducting polymers suffer from poor …

Dynamic covalent chemistry toward wearable electronics

Z Lei, H Chen, Y Jin, W Zhang - Cell Reports Physical Science, 2023 - cell.com
Dynamic covalent chemistry (DCvC) has become an important tool in developing smart
materials in the past few decades. By incorporating reversible covalent bonds into …

Azomethine‐Containing Pyrrolo[3,2‐b]pyrrole Copolymers for Simple and Degradable Conjugated Polymers

KA Bartlett, A Charland‐Martin, J Lawton… - Macromolecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Conjugated polymers have received significant attention as potentially lightweight and
highly tailorable alternatives to inorganic semiconductors, but their synthesis is often …