Polymers have many advantages such as low weight, low cost, and, importantly, stability
under thermal, chemical, and mechanical stress. This stability, on the other hand, leads to …

In the two decades since the introduction of the “click chemistry” concept, the toolbox of “click
reactions” has continually expanded, enabling chemists, materials scientists, and biologists …

Various recycling technologies have been developed to deal with plastic problems, but they
face considerable economic and technological challenges in practice. An attractive …

Norbornene derivatives (NBEs) are common monomers for living ring-opening metathesis
polymerization and yield polymers with low dispersities and diverse functionalities …

Enol ethers are widely used as quenching reagents for Grubbs catalysts. However, we
report the surprisingly effective ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of cyclic …

To access infinitely recyclable plastics, one appealing approach is to design
thermodynamically neutral systems based on dynamic covalent bond, the (de) …

The development of degradable polymers has commanded significant attention over the
past half century. Approaches have predominantly relied on ring-opening polymerization of …

Materials capable of degradation upon exposure to light hold promise in a diverse range of
applications including biomedical devices and smart coatings. Despite the rapid access to …

The use of a simple, cheap and effective organocatalyst, tetramethylammonium methyl
carbonate, has been exploited for the transesterification of a range of commercial polymer …

The substituents present upon five-membered bicyclic glucose carbonate monomers were
found to greatly affect the reactivities and regioselectivities during ring-opening …