Polymer materials provide solutions to some of the most pressing environmental,
manufacturing and health-care challenges. Traditional thermoplastic and thermoset …

Dynamic covalent polymer networks (DCPN) have historically attracted attention for their
unique roles in chemical recycling and self-healing, which are both relevant for sustainable …

The global plastics problem is a trifecta, greatly affecting environment, energy and climate,,–.
Many innovative closed/open-loop plastics recycling or upcycling strategies have been …

Abstract Development of closed‐loop chemically recyclable plastics (CCRPs) that can be
widely used in daily life can be a fundamental solution to the global plastic waste crisis …

In the last decades, Covalent Adaptable Networks (CAN) appeared as an innovative
polymer family, able to bridge the gap between thermoplastics and thermosets. CAN rely on …

The development of recyclable plastics is a key research focus in today's world due to their
environmental issues, and non-renewability concerns. Recently, vitrimeric materials have …

Thermoset elastomers are widely used in industry and frontier research due to their
advantage of mechanical robustness, high thermal/chemical resistance, and good …

In recent decades, origami has been explored to aid in the design of engineering structures.
These structures span multiple scales and have been demonstrated to be used toward …

Polymer networks built out of dynamic covalent bonds offer the potential to translate the
control and tunability of chemical reactions to macroscopic physical properties. Under …

Thermosets—polymeric materials that adopt a permanent shape upon curing—have a key
role in the modern plastics and rubber industries, comprising about 20 per cent of polymeric …