Polyolefin thermoplastic elastomers from polymerization catalysis: Advantages, pitfalls and future challenges

G Zanchin, G Leone - Progress in Polymer Science, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Polyolefins have dominated materials technology over the last century and remain among
the most used materials, despite environmental problems have emerged and their public …

Recent advances in thermoplastic elastomers from living polymerizations: Macromolecular architectures and supramolecular chemistry

W Wang, W Lu, A Goodwin, H Wang, P Yin… - Progress in polymer …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) have found use in a wide range of applications, such as
adhesives, elastomers, coatings, fibers, and in additive manufacturing techniques such as …

Catalytic chemical recycling of post-consumer polyethylene

A Arroyave, S Cui, JC Lopez, AL Kocen… - Journal of the …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Among commercial plastics, polyolefins are the most widely produced worldwide but have
limited recyclability. Here, we report a chemical recycling route for the conversion of post …

Chemically recyclable ester-linked polypropylene

AL Kocen, S Cui, TW Lin, AM LaPointe… - Journal of the …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Polyolefins represent the largest class of commodity materials due to their excellent material
properties; however, they have limited pathways to chemical recycling and are often difficult …

Polyethylene Incorporating Diels–Alder Comonomers: A “Trojan Horse” Strategy for Chemically Recyclable Polyolefins

SM Parke, JC Lopez, S Cui… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Polyolefins with periodic unsaturation in the backbone chain are sought after for
synthesizing chemically recyclable polymers or telechelic polyolefin macromonomers. Here …

Development of well-defined olefin block (co) polymers achieved by late transition metal catalysts: Catalyst, synthesis and characterization

Y Wang, J Lai, Q Gou, R Gao, G Zheng, R Zhang… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2025‏ - Elsevier
As the saturation rate of the bulk polyolefin market accelerates, the development of high
value-added polyolefins becomes increasingly urgent. Particular attention is directed …

Olefin metathesis in multiblock copolymer synthesis

ML Gringolts, YI Denisova… - Beilstein Journal of …, 2019‏ - beilstein-journals.org
Multiblock copolymers constitute a basis for an emerging class of nanomaterials that
combine various functional properties with durability and enhanced mechanical …

Acyclic diene metathesis (admet) as powerful tool for functional polymers with versatile architectures

S Liu, J Yan, Q Zhang, Y Yan - Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic …, 2022‏ - Springer
Since the discovery of acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET), researchers have gradually
developed ADMET polymerization into a mature methodology for the preparation of versatile …

Anisotropic thermal transport in thermoelectric composites of conjugated polyelectrolytes/single-walled carbon nanotubes

CK Mai, J Liu, CM Evans, RA Segalman… - …, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
We report a method to determine the thermal conductivities of polymer composites with
single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) using time-domain thermoreflectance. Both …

Biaxial chain growth of polyolefin and polystyrene from 1, 6-hexanediylzinc species for triblock copolymers

SS Park, CS Kim, SD Kim, SJ Kwon, HM Lee… - …, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Synthesis of polyolefin (PO)-based block copolymers is of immense research interest. In this
work, we report a strategy for the construction of polystyrene (PS)-block-PO-block-PS, a …