The majority of post-consumer plastic waste is not recycled. Impediments to the recycling of
commodity polymers include separation, impurities and degradation of the macromolecular …

Carbon dioxide offers an accessible, cheap and renewable carbon feedstock for synthesis.
Current interest in the area of carbon dioxide valorisation aims at new, emerging …

While transesterification has been largely explored by chemists, only a few studies
comparatively dealt with its “sluggish cousin”, transcarbamoylation. Originally suggested 70 …

With the increasingly depletion of the petroleum resources and awareness of the importance
of environmental issues, a quest for a newer, safer and greener route for plant oil-based non …

Over the past couple of decades, polymers that depolymerize end-to-end upon cleavage of
their backbone or activation of a terminal functional group, sometimes referred to as “self …

As an abundant, renewable, and inexpensive carbon feedstock, CO 2 can be converted into
valuable products, creating substantial environmental and economic benefits …

The direct copolymerization of p‐tosyl isocyanate (TSI) with epoxides, initiated by onium
salts in the presence of trialkylborane, to produce polyurethanes is reported. The rate of …

Polyurethanes (PU) are ranked amongst the 6 th most manufactured worldwide polymers
and are widely used in a variety of applications due to the diversity of properties they offer …

Polyurethanes are industrially and academically important as soft materials. They are
conventionally synthesized by a process based on step-growth polymerization; thus …

Polymerization degree plays a vital role in material properties. Previous methodologies of
molecular weight control generally cannot suppress or alleviate batch-to-batch variations in …