The extensive utilization of plastic, as a symbol of modern technological society, has
consumed enormous amounts of finite and non-renewable fossil resources and produced …

Sulfur and its functional groups are major players in an area of exciting research taking
place in modern polymer and materials science, both in academia and industry. In fact …

The sustainable production of chemically recyclable polymers presents a significant
opportunity to polymer scientists to tackle the growing environmental and energy problems …

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

A central challenge in the development of next-generation sustainable materials is to design
polymers that can easily revert back to their monomeric starting material through chemical …

Inspired by the uniqueness of ring-opening polymerization and the ubiquity of sulfur-
containing heterocycles, much attention has been paid to the synthesis of sulfur-containing …

Direct C–H bond functionalization chemistry allows the pot-, atom-, and step-economical
and original construction of carbon–carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds starting from …

The accumulation of discarded petroleum-based plastics causes serious environmental
crises. Currently, recyclable polymers with neutrality in thermodynamics, such as polyesters …

Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are biodegradable and biocompatible polyesters with a wide
range of applications; in particular, they currently stand as promising alternatives to …

We report here on the ring‐opening polymerization (ROP) of racemic β‐thiobutyrolactone
(rac‐TBL), as the first chemical synthesis of poly (3‐thiobutyrolactone)(P3TB), the thioester …