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 …

Recent advances in the ring-opening polymerization of sulfur-containing monomers

VB Purohit, M Pięta, J Pietrasik, CM Plummer - Polymer Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Inspired by the uniqueness of ring-opening polymerization and the ubiquity of sulfur-
containing heterocycles, much attention has been paid to the synthesis of sulfur-containing …

Direct radical copolymerizations of thioamides to generate vinyl polymers with degradable thioether bonds in the backbones

H Watanabe, M Kamigaito - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Direct radical addition reactions of thiocarbonyl (C═ S) groups unaccompanied by β-
scission have rarely been reported despite their potential for constructing various sulfur …

Thiocarbonyl chemistry in polymer science

NM Bingham, Z Abousalman-Rezvani, K Collins… - Polymer …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Organised by reaction type, this review highlights the unique reactivity of thiocarbonyl (CS)
groups with radicals, anions, nucleophiles, electrophiles, in pericyclic reactions, and in the …

Fully Degradable Polyacrylate Networks from Conventional Radical Polymerization Enabled by Thionolactone Addition

H Elliss, F Dawson, Q Nisa, NM Bingham… - …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We report the preparation of degradable polymer networks by conventional free radical
copolymerization of n-butyl acrylate with a crosslinker (1 mol%) and dibenzo [c, e] oxepane …

Development of an Efficient Thionolactone for Radical Ring-Opening Polymerization by a Combined Theoretical/Experimental Approach

B Luzel, N Gil, P Désirée, J Monot… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The environmental impact of plastic waste has been a real problem for the past decades.
The incorporation of cleavable bonds in the polymer backbone is a solution to making a …

A general strategy for radical ring-opening polymerization of macrocyclic allylic sulfides

S Zhang, C Cao, S Jiang, H Huang - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
Radical ring-opening polymerization (ROP) is a useful strategy for synthesizing polymers
with complex main-chain structures. However, introducing complex functionalities into the …

Recent advances and future perspectives in engineering biodegradable face masks

SSA Athukoralalage, CA Bell, AC Gemmell… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and airborne particulate matter pollution have
caused a surge in the consumption of face masks in recent years. Typically, face masks are …

Spotlight on the life cycle of acrylamide-based polymers supporting reductions in environmental footprint: Review and recent advances

O Braun, C Coquery, J Kieffer, F Blondel, C Favero… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Humankind is facing a climate and energy crisis which demands global and prompt actions
to minimize the negative impacts on the environment and on the lives of millions of people …

Degradable linear and bottlebrush thioester-functional copolymers through atom-transfer radical ring-opening copolymerization of a thionolactone

Q un Nisa, W Theobald, KS Hepburn… - …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polymers with tailored architectures and degradability were prepared through thiocarbonyl
addition ring-opening (TARO) atom-transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) using dibenzo [c …