Ring-opening polymerization for the goal of chemically recyclable polymers

CM Plummer, L Li, Y Chen - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
A crucial modern dilemma relates to the ecological crisis created by excess plastic waste
production. An emerging technology for reducing plastic waste is the production of …

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 …

Tough while recyclable plastics enabled by monothiodilactone monomers

Y Wang, Y Zhu, W Lv, X Wang… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The current scale of plastics production and the attendant waste disposal issues represent
an underexplored opportunity for chemically recyclable polymers. Typical recyclable …

Solid-state chemical recycling of polycarbonates to epoxides and carbon dioxide using a heterodinuclear Mg (II) Co (II) catalyst

TM McGuire, AC Deacy, A Buchard… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polymer chemical recycling to monomers (CRM) could help improve polymer sustainability,
but its implementation requires much better understanding of depolymerization catalysis …

Efficient and Selective Chemical Recycling of CO2‐Based Alicyclic Polycarbonates via Catalytic Pyrolysis

Y Yu, B Gao, Y Liu, XB Lu - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Chemical recycling of polymers to their constituent monomers is the foremost challenge in
building a sustainable circular plastics economy. Here, we report a strategy for highly …

Chemically recyclable polymer system based on nucleophilic aromatic ring-opening polymerization

YL Su, L Yue, H Tran, M Xu, A Engler… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The development of chemically recyclable polymers with desirable properties is a long-
standing but challenging goal in polymer science. Central to this challenge is the need for …

Ring‐opening Polymerization of Enantiopure Bicyclic Ether‐ester Monomers toward Closed‐loop Recyclable and Crystalline Stereoregular Polyesters via Chemical …

Z Li, D Zhao, Y Shen, Z Li - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although great successes have been achieved, the preparation of closed‐loop recyclable
polyesters with high working temperatures still remains as a big challenge. Herein, we …

Functionalizable and Chemically Recyclable Thermoplastics from Chemoselective Ring‐Opening Polymerization of Bio‐renewable Bifunctional α‐Methylene‐δ …

J Li, F Liu, Y Liu, Y Shen, Z Li - … Chemie International Edition, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
It is a highly attractive strategy to develop chemically recyclable polymers to establish a
circular plastic economy. Despite the recent advancements, chemically recyclable polymers …

Insights into substitution strategy towards thermodynamic and property regulation of chemically recyclable polymers

YM Tu, FL Gong, YC Wu, Z Cai, JB Zhu - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
The development of chemically recyclable polymers serves as an attractive approach to
address the global plastic pollution crisis. Monomer design principle is the key to achieving …

Chemically recyclable thermoplastic polyurethane elastomers via a cascade ring-opening and step-growth polymerization strategy from bio-renewable δ-caprolactone

Q Yan, C Li, T Yan, Y Shen, Z Li - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
It is highly desirable to develop chemically recyclable polymers to address the challenge in
establishing a sustainable circular polymer economy. Despite the mass production and …