Hydrogen-bonded supramolecular liquid crystal polymers: smart materials with stimuli-responsive, self-healing, and recyclable properties

SJD Lugger, SJA Houben, Y Foelen… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen-bonded liquid crystalline polymers have emerged as promising “smart”
supramolecular functional materials with stimuli-responsive, self-healing, and recyclable …

Sustainable advances in SLA/DLP 3D printing materials and processes

EM Maines, MK Porwal, CJ Ellison, TM Reineke - Green Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
3D printing is an essential tool for rapid prototyping in a variety of sectors such as
automotive and public health. The 3D printing market is booming, and it is projected that it …

Chemically recyclable thermoplastics from reversible-deactivation polymerization of cyclic acetals

BA Abel, RL Snyder, GW Coates - Science, 2021 - science.org
Identifying plastics capable of chemical recycling to monomer (CRM) is the foremost
challenge in creating a sustainable circular plastic economy. Polyacetals are promising …

A circular polyester platform based on simple gem-disubstituted valerolactones

XL Li, RW Clarke, JY Jiang, TQ Xu, EYX Chen - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Geminal disubstitution of cyclic monomers is an effective strategy to enhance the chemical
recyclability of their polymers, but it is utilized for that purpose alone and often at the …

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 …

Toward green atom transfer radical polymerization: current status and future challenges

S Dworakowska, F Lorandi, A Gorczyński… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Reversible‐deactivation radical polymerizations (RDRPs) have revolutionized synthetic
polymer chemistry. Nowadays, RDRPs facilitate design and preparation of materials with …

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 …

From lab to market: current strategies for the production of biobased polyols

H Sardon, D Mecerreyes, A Basterretxea… - ACS Sustainable …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The global market for polyols was US 26.2billionin2019andisexpectedtogrowuptoUS 34.4
billion by 2024. Polyols are most commonly employed as the main component in the …

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 …

Mechanochemical degradation and recycling of synthetic polymers

J Zhou, TG Hsu, J Wang - Angewandte Chemie, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The accumulation of plastic waste, due to lack of recycling, has led to serious environmental
pollution. Although mechanical recycling can alleviate this issue, it inevitably reduces the …