Recyclable/degradable materials via the insertion of labile/cleavable bonds using a comonomer approach

C Lefay, Y Guillaneuf - Progress in Polymer Science, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Recent advances in formulation and application of molecular polymer brushes in biomedicine: Therapeutic, diagnostic, and theranostics capabilities

F Adeli, F Abbasi, P Ghandforoushan, HE Külahlı… - Nano Today, 2023 - Elsevier
The applications of nanotechnology in medical sciences, especially in drug and gene
delivery, has experienced unprecedented growth in recent years. The integration of …

Stimuli-cleavable moiety enabled vinyl polymer degradation and emerging applications

J Zheng, ZM Png, XCN Quek, XJ Loh, Z Li - Green Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Vinyl polymers have become ubiquitous products in our modern world, thanks to their
exceptional strength, durability, and resistance to chemicals, all of which result from their …

Current status and outlook for ATRP

K Matyjaszewski - European Polymer Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) is one of the most often used controlled radical
polymerization techniques. It employs very small amounts (ppm) of Cu complexes in the …

Macrocyclic allylic sulfone as a universal comonomer in organocatalyzed photocontrolled radical copolymerization with vinyl monomers

W Wang, B Rondon, Z Wang, J Wang, J Niu - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
Radical copolymerization of vinyl monomers and cyclic monomers is a versatile approach to
degradable vinyl plastics. Despite recent advances, a class of “universal” cyclic monomers …

Mechanism-Guided Discovery of Cleavable Comonomers for Backbone Deconstructable Poly (methyl methacrylate)

K Ko, DJ Lundberg, AM Johnson… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The development of cleavable comonomers (CCs) with suitable copolymerization reactivity
paves the way for the introduction of backbone deconstructability into polymers. Recent …

Degradable Latexes by Nitroxide-mediated Aqueous Seeded Emulsion Copolymerization Using a Thionolactone

M Lages, N Gil, P Galanopoulo, J Mougin… - …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Thiocarbonyl addition-ring-opening polymerization of thionolactones offers a unique
opportunity to incorporate thioester functions into vinyl polymer backbones via a radical …

Plenty of Space in the Backbone: Radical Ring‐Opening Polymerization

F Sbordone, H Frisch - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Radical polymerization is the most widely applied technique in both industry and
fundamental science. However, its major drawback is that it typically yields polymers with …

Atom transfer radical polymerization

S Harrisson, R Whitfield, A Anastasaki… - Nature Reviews …, 2025 - nature.com
Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) is a synthetic method that harnesses radical
polymerization to yield well-defined polymers of controlled architecture from a wide range of …

Selective electrochemical degradation of bottlebrush elastomers

KR Albanese, PT Morris, B Roehrich… - Journal of Polymer …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
abstract We introduce a simple synthetic strategy to selectively degrade bottlebrush
networks derived from well‐defined poly (4‐methylcaprolactone)(P4MCL) bottlebrush …