Polyesters carrying polar main-chain ester linkages exhibit distinct material properties for
diverse applications and thus play an important role in today's plastics economy. It is …

The majority of post-consumer plastic waste is not recycled. Impediments to the recycling of
commodity polymers include separation, impurities and degradation of the macromolecular …

Geminal disubstitution of cyclic monomers is an effective strategy to enhance the chemical
recyclability of their polymers, but it is utilized for that purpose alone and often at the …

The design and synthesis of chemically recyclable polymers, which can be reutilized as their
starting monomers or new value-added chemicals, has provided a practical approach to …

The current scale of plastics production and the attendant waste disposal issues represent
an underexplored opportunity for chemically recyclable polymers. Typical recyclable …

A crucial modern dilemma relates to the ecological crisis created by excess plastic waste
production. An emerging technology for reducing plastic waste is the production of …

The ability to efficiently and selectively process mixed polymer waste is important to address
the growing plastic waste problem. Herein, we report that the combination of ZnCl2 and an …

The large production and indiscriminate disposal of plastics have resulted in serious
resource and global environmental crises, which has raised a demand to develop a more …

This perspective discusses a set of design principles for next-generation kinetically trapped,
intrinsically circular polymers (iCPs) that are inherently, selectively, and expediently …

Although Staudinger realized makromoleküles had enormous potential, he likely did not
anticipate the consequences of their universal adoption. With 6.3 billion metric tons of plastic …