Enzymes' power for plastics degradation

V Tournier, S Duquesne, F Guillamot… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Plastics are everywhere in our modern way of living, and their production keeps increasing
every year, causing major environmental concerns. Nowadays, the end-of-life management …

Catalysis as an enabling science for sustainable polymers

X Zhang, M Fevre, GO Jones, RM Waymouth - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The replacement of current petroleum-based plastics with sustainable alternatives is a
crucial but formidable challenge for the modern society. Catalysis presents an enabling tool …

Poly (lactic acid)—Mass production, processing, industrial applications, and end of life

E Castro-Aguirre, F Iniguez-Franco, H Samsudin… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2016 - Elsevier
Global awareness of material sustainability has increased the demand for bio-based
polymers like poly (lactic acid)(PLA), which are seen as a desirable alternative to fossil …

O‐to‐S Substitution Enables Dovetailing Conflicting Cyclizability, Polymerizability, and Recyclability: Dithiolactone vs. Dilactone

Y Wang, M Li, J Chen, Y Tao… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Developing chemically recyclable polymers represents a greener alternative to landfill and
incineration and offers a closed‐loop strategy toward a circular materials economy …

Controlling polymer stereochemistry in ring-opening polymerization: a decade of advances shaping the future of biodegradable polyesters

MJL Tschan, RM Gauvin, CM Thomas - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

Recent trends in catalytic polymerizations

DJ Walsh, MG Hyatt, SA Miller, D Guironnet - ACS Catalysis, 2019 - ACS Publications
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 …

Toward infinitely recyclable plastics derived from renewable cyclic esters

X Tang, EYX Chen - Chem, 2019 - cell.com
Plastics, used in countless consumer products that our daily lives depend on, have become
indispensable materials essential for modern life and the global economy. At the same time …

Polymerization of polar monomers mediated by main-group Lewis acid–base pairs

M Hong, J Chen, EYX Chen - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The development of new or more sustainable, active, efficient, controlled, and selective
polymerization reactions or processes continues to be crucial for the synthesis of important …

[HTML][HTML] Poly (lactic acid) stereocomplexes based molecular architectures: Synthesis and crystallization

RM Michell, V Ladelta, E Da Silva, AJ Müller… - Progress in Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
This review presents the state of the art of complex macromolecular architectures based on
polylactide stereocomplexes (PLA-sc) from the viewpoint of synthesis and crystallization …

Recent advances in enantioselective ring-opening polymerization and copolymerization

X Xie, Z Huo, E Jang, R Tong - Communications Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Precisely controlling macromolecular stereochemistry and sequences is a powerful strategy
for manipulating polymer properties. Controlled synthetic routes to prepare degradable …