Sustainable polymers

AK Mohanty, F Wu, R Mincheva… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Sustainable polymers are materials derived from renewable, recycled and waste carbon
resources and their combinations, which at the end of life can be recycled, biodegraded or …

Biobased vitrimers: Towards sustainable and adaptable performing polymer materials

MA Lucherelli, A Duval, L Avérous - Progress in Polymer Science, 2022 - Elsevier
In the last decades, Covalent Adaptable Networks (CAN) appeared as an innovative
polymer family, able to bridge the gap between thermoplastics and thermosets. CAN rely on …

[HTML][HTML] Biobased covalent adaptable networks: towards better sustainability of thermosets

XL Zhao, PX Tian, YD Li, JB Zeng - Green Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermosets have many advantages such as excellent mechanical properties, dimensional
stability, and chemical and environmental resistance, but suffer from unsustainability …

Catalyst-free self-healing bio-based vitrimer for a recyclable, reprocessable, and self-adhered carbon fiber reinforced composite

Y Xu, S Dai, L Bi, J Jiang, H Zhang, Y Chen - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon fiber reinforced composites (CFRPs) have the problems of over-reliance on
petroleum-based products and difficult recycling of Carbon fibers (CFs). To solve these …

Self-healing, reprocessable, degradable, thermadapt shape memory multifunctional polymers based on dynamic imine bonds and their application in nondestructively …

X Liu, E Zhang, J Liu, J Qin, M Wu, C Yang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Traditional epoxy thermosets have been extensively used in many fields, including the field
of carbon fiber composite materials, which is favored by a large number of researchers. But …

Designed from Biobased Materials for Recycling: Imine‐Based Covalent Adaptable Networks

A Liguori, M Hakkarainen - Macromolecular rapid …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Turning thermosets into fully sustainable materials requires utilization of biobased raw
materials and design for easy recyclability. Here, dynamic covalent chemistry for fabrication …

Recyclable, biobased photoresins for 3d printing through dynamic imine exchange

KP Cortés-Guzmán, AR Parikh… - ACS Sustainable …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Transimination reactions are highly effective dynamic covalent reactions to enable
reprocessability in thermosets, as they can undergo exchange without the need for catalysts …

Depolymerization within a Circular Plastics System

RA Clark, MP Shaver - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
The societal importance of plastics contrasts with the carelessness with which they are
disposed. Their superlative properties lead to economic and environmental efficiency, but …

Lignin-Based Covalent Adaptable Network Polymers─ When Bio-Based Thermosets Meet Recyclable by Design

DB Tiz, FA Vicente, A Kroflič… - … Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Covalent adaptable networks (CANs) play an important role in polymer chemistry, as they
provide an innovative link between thermoplastics and thermosets. The breakthrough idea …

Fully Biobased Vitrimers: Future Direction toward Sustainable Cross‐Linked Polymers

T Vidil, A Llevot - Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Improving the sustainability of polymer networks is a crucial challenge in polymer science
due to their important role in industry. Their traditional syntheses conflict with several …