[HTML][HTML] Plastic waste upcycling: a sustainable solution for waste management, product development, and circular economy

R Balu, NK Dutta, N Roy Choudhury - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Plastic waste pollution, including non-biodegradable landfills, leaching of toxic chemicals
into soil and waterways, and emission of toxic gases into the atmosphere, is significantly …

[HTML][HTML] Self-healable fiber-reinforced vitrimer composites: overview and future prospects

H Sharma, S Rana, P Singh, M Hayashi, WH Binder… - RSC …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
To achieve sustainable development goals, approaches towards the preparation of
recyclable and healable polymeric materials is highly attractive. Self-healing polymers and …

High-performance recyclable and malleable epoxy resin with vanillin-based hyperbranched epoxy resin containing dual dynamic bonds

Y Hao, L Zhong, T Li, J Zhang… - … Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Dynamic covalent polymer networks represent new opportunities in the design of
sustainable epoxy resins due to their excellent malleability and reprocessability; however …

Molecularly engineered cardanol derived epoxy vitrimers based on dynamic disulfide and dynamic ester exchanges with desirable dynamic response, degradability …

Y Hu, S Tong, L Hu, M Zhang, Q Huang, Y Sha… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dynamic covalent chemistry provides a solution to the recycling problem of epoxy resins,
and the graphene functional composites. Nevertheless, the study on chemical structures of …

Reprocessable and Chemically Recyclable Hard Vitrimers Based on Liquid‐Crystalline Epoxides

TE Trinh, K Ku, H Yeo - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid increase in demand for recyclable and reusable thermosets has necessitated the
development of materials with chemical structures that exhibit these features. Thus …

Thermal conductivity and closed-loop recycling of bulk biphenyl epoxy composites with directional controllable thermal pathways

F Luo, W Cui, Y Zou, H Li, Q Qian - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The increasing demand of thermal management materials consumes a large amount of
petrochemical and inorganic mineral resources. It is essential to develop a kind of highly …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon material/vitrimer composites: Towards sustainable, functional, and high-performance crosslinked polymeric materials

Y Wu, Y Wei, Y Ji - Giant, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermosets and their composites have occupied a key place in the polymeric material
industry for both plastics and rubbers. Carbon material/thermoset composite is a major …

[HTML][HTML] Thermomechanical analysis (TMA) of vitrimers

AM Hubbard, Y Ren, A Sarvestani, CR Picu… - Polymer Testing, 2023 - Elsevier
Vitrimers are an exciting class and new generation of polymer materials combining the
strength of a traditional thermoset polymer with the reprocessability of a traditional …

Control of Lithium Salt Partitioning, Coordination, and Solvation in Vitrimer Electrolytes

S Jang, EI Hernandez Alvarez, C Chen… - Chemistry of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Vitrimers are an important class of materials offering advantages over conventional
thermosets due to their self-healing properties and reprocessability. Vitrimers are ideal …

[HTML][HTML] Vitrimers based on block copolymers with diverse block sequences

S Weerathaworn, A Meyer, V Abetz - Polymer, 2024 - Elsevier
Vitrimers based on block copolymers give access to adaptable polymer networks where the
resulting properties can be adjusted not only by the vitrimer chemistry itself but also can be …