Biorenewable and circular polyolefin thermoplastic elastomers

Y Sha, X Chen, W Sun, J Zhou, Y He, E Xu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Polymers capable of depolymerizing back to their own monomers offer a promising solution
to address the challenges in polymer sustainability. Despite significant progress has been …

High Molecular Weight Semicrystalline Substituted Polycyclohexene From Alternating Copolymerization of Butadiene and Methacrylate and Its Ambient …

K Zheng, J Yang, X Luo, Y Xia - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Cyclohexene cannot be polymerized via ring-opening polymerization under any conditions
due to its lack of ring strain. A hypothetical polycyclohexene would therefore have a strong …

Photochemical [2+ 2] Cycloaddition Enables the Synthesis of Highly Thermally Stable and Acid/Base-Resistant Polyesters from a Nonpolymerizable α, β-Conjugated …

C Yang, XT Wu, L Yu, CA Bi, FS Du, ZC Li - ACS Macro Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
We report a simple strategy to transform a nonpolymerizable six-membered α, β-conjugated
lactone, 5, 6-dihydro-2 H-pyran-2-one (DPO), into polymerizable bicyclic lactones via …

Pathways to Biorenewable Circularity in Crosslinked Cycloolefin Resins

Z Xu, Z Wang, M Venetos, S Klass, P Khanal, C Chan… - 2024 - chemrxiv.org
Here, we show how to redesign cycloolefin resins for biorenewable circularity by addressing
how bio-derived polar functionality influences ring strain, ring–chain equilibria, and …