Growing environmental concerns associated with the accumulation of plastic waste in the
natural environment has incentivised considerable research into renewable alternatives …

This review highlights recent developments in the field of biodegradable polymeric materials
intended to replace non-degradable conventional plastics, focusing on studies from the last …

Polymers have become one of the largest and most important materials we use in daily life.
Their popularity has stemmed from their wide range of material properties combined with …

Precisely controlling macromolecular stereochemistry and sequences is a powerful strategy
for manipulating polymer properties. Controlled synthetic routes to prepare degradable …

Stereoselective ring-opening polymerization catalysts are used to produce degradable
stereoregular poly (lactic acids) with thermal and mechanical properties that are superior to …

This review describes the recent advances (from 2008 onwards) in the use of Schiff-base
metal complexes as catalysts for the ring opening polymerization (ROP) of cyclic esters. The …

Poly (hydroxy acid) s are a family of biocompatible and (bio) degradable polyesters with
various outcomes in different domains of application. To date, poly (hydroxy acid) s are best …

High performance biodegradable polymers (eg, aliphatic polyesters) that can display
properties that rival polyolefins are seen as future high demand materials for a variety of …

Iso‐selective initiators for the ring‐opening polymerization (ROP) of rac‐lactide are rare
outside of Group 13. We describe the first examples of highly iso‐selective lutetium initiators …

A series of zinc complexes supported by tridentate imino-phenolate ligands with different
substituents on the phenolate ring and bearing a pyridyl ring as an additional coordinative …