Recent progress in electrochemical hydrogen sulfide splitting: Strategies for enabling Sulfur-tolerant anodic reactions

K Kim, C Lee - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Water splitting is widely recognized as the cleanest method for producing green hydrogen.
Unfortunately, its efficiency is severely impeded by the sluggish oxygen evolution reaction …

Polymerizations with elemental sulfur: from petroleum refining to polymeric materials

T Lee, PT Dirlam, JT Njardarson… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The production of elemental sulfur from petroleum refining has created a technological
opportunity to increase the valorization of elemental sulfur by the synthesis of high …

Highly ordered thermoplastic polyurethane/aramid nanofiber conductive foams modulated by kevlar polyanion for piezoresistive sensing and electromagnetic …

K Qian, J Zhou, M Miao, H Wu, S Thaiboonrod… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2023 - Springer
Highly ordered and uniformly porous structure of conductive foams is a vital issue for various
functional purposes such as piezoresistive sensing and electromagnetic interference (EMI) …

A decade development of inverse vulcanization towards green and sustainable practices

H Shen, B Zheng, H Zhang - Polymer Reviews, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Inverse vulcanization utilizes alkenyl monomers and elemental sulfur, an excessive by-
product of oil and gas refineries, to synthesize dynamically crosslinked sulfur-rich polymers …

Stretchable, Ultratough, and Intrinsically Self‐Extinguishing Elastomers with Desirable Recyclability

Y Xue, J Lin, T Wan, Y Luo, Z Ma, Y Zhou… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Advanced elastomers are increasingly used in emerging areas, for example, flexible
electronics and devices, and these real‐world applications often require elastomers to be …

On the Mechanism of the Inverse Vulcanization of Elemental Sulfur: Structural Characterization of Poly(sulfur-random-(1,3-diisopropenylbenzene))

J Bao, KP Martin, E Cho, KS Kang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Organosulfur polymers, such as those derived from elemental sulfur, are an important new
class of macromolecules that have recently emerged via the inverse vulcanization process …

Anionic hybrid copolymerization of sulfur with acrylate: strategy for synthesis of high-performance sulfur-based polymers

H Yang, J Huang, Y Song, H Yao… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Copolymerization of elemental sulfur (S8) with vinyl monomers to develop new polymer
materials is significant. Here, for the first time, we report the anionic hybrid copolymerization …

Bio-based reprocessable and degradable epoxy resins via inverse vulcanization

Y Jin, C Hu, Z Wang, Z Xia, R Li, S Shi… - ACS Sustainable …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Designing sustainable epoxy resins with intrinsic recyclability and degradability has become
vital in polymer science. Here, we report sulfur chain-modified epoxy networks (S x E y U z) …

Stretchable and durable inverse vulcanized polymers with chemical and thermal recycling

P Yan, W Zhao, SJ Tonkin, JM Chalker… - Chemistry of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Inverse vulcanized polymer materials have received considerable attention as a way to use
sulfur, an industrial byproduct, as a starting material for synthesis. The resulting high-sulfur …

Unraveling the rheology of inverse vulcanized polymers

DJ Bischoff, T Lee, KS Kang, J Molineux… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Multiple relaxation times are used to capture the numerous stress relaxation modes found in
bulk polymer melts. Herein, inverse vulcanization is used to synthesize high sulfur content …