Recycling of natural fiber composites: Challenges and opportunities

X Zhao, K Copenhaver, L Wang, M Korey… - Resources …, 2022 - Elsevier
Natural fibers have been widely used for reinforcing polymers attributed to their sustainable
nature, excellent stiffness to weight ratio, biodegradability, and low cost compared with …

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 …

Upcycling of thermosetting polymers into high-value materials

B Wang, Y Wang, S Du, J Zhu, S Ma - Materials Horizons, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermosetting polymers, a large class of polymers featuring excellent properties, have been
widely used and play an irreplaceable role in our life. Nevertheless, they are arduous to be …

Catalyst-free mechanochemistry as a versatile tool in synthetic chemistry: a review

BR Naidu, T Sruthi, R Mitty, K Venkateswarlu - Green Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
A notable advancement of the mechanochemical process has been its ability to initiate
reactions that are otherwise extremely difficult/impossible to accomplish. For the first time, in …

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 …

Recycling strategies for vitrimers

H Zhang, J Cui, G Hu, B Zhang - International Journal of Smart and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Vitrimer is a new type of material that combine the advantages of thermoplastic and
thermoset materials. The rapid dynamic exchange reactions at high temperature allow the …

Self-healing of polymers and polymer composites

VI Irzhak, IE Uflyand, GI Dzhardimalieva - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
This review is devoted to the description of methods for the self-healing of polymers, polymer
composites, and coatings. The self-healing of damages that occur during the operation of …

Interfacial Compatibility of Core–Shell Cellulose Nanocrystals for Improving Dynamic Covalent Adaptable Networks' Fracture Resistance in Nanohybrid Vitrimer …

J Sun, M Liang, L Yin, G Rivers, G Hu… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The development of polymeric nanocomposites with dynamic covalent adaptable networks
and biobased nanomaterials has been a promising approach toward sustainable advanced …

Progress Toward Sustainable Polymer Technologies with Ball-Mill Grinding

A Rizzo, GI Peterson - Progress in Polymer Science, 2024 - Elsevier
The ball-mill grinding (BMG) of polymers has a long history, starting with Staudinger
showing in the 1930s that polystyrene undergoes chain scission upon ball milling. However …

Nanotechnology in covalent adaptable networks: from nanocomposites to surface patterning

S Wang, B Li, J Zheng, NEB Surat'man, J Wu… - ACS Materials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cross-linked polymers with dynamic covalent linkages that can exchange and/or reversibly
cleave and reformed in response to external stimuli are known as covalent adaptable …