Recent advances in the polymerization of elemental sulphur, inverse vulcanization and methods to obtain functional Chalcogenide Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Polymers …

Y Zhang, RS Glass, K Char, J Pyun - Polymer Chemistry, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent developments in the polymerization of elemental sulfur and the preparation of
functional Chalcogenide Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Polymers (CHIPs) are reviewed. CHIPs …

A decade development of inverse vulcanization towards green and sustainable practices

H Shen, B Zheng, H Zhang - Polymer Reviews, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Inverse vulcanization utilizes alkenyl monomers and elemental sulfur, an excessive by-
product of oil and gas refineries, to synthesize dynamically crosslinked sulfur-rich polymers …

Mechanochemical synthesis of inverse vulcanized polymers

P Yan, W Zhao, F McBride, D Cai, J Dale… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Inverse vulcanization, a sustainable platform, can transform sulfur, an industrial by-product,
into polymers with broad promising applications such as heavy metal capture …

Stretchable and durable inverse vulcanized polymers with chemical and thermal recycling

P Yan, W Zhao, SJ Tonkin, JM Chalker… - Chemistry of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Inverse vulcanized polymer materials have received considerable attention as a way to use
sulfur, an industrial byproduct, as a starting material for synthesis. The resulting high-sulfur …

Inverse vulcanized polymers with shape memory, enhanced mechanical properties, and vitrimer behavior

P Yan, W Zhao, B Zhang, L Jiang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The invention of inverse vulcanization provides great opportunities for generating functional
polymers directly from elemental sulfur, an industrial by‐product. However, unsatisfactory …

Polysulfides synthesized from renewable garlic components and repurposed sulfur form environmentally friendly adhesives

C Herrera, KJ Ysinga, CL Jenkins - ACS applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Natural materials have been used as glues throughout human history. Over the last century,
society has come to rely heavily on synthetic, petroleum-based adhesives instead …

Sulfur fertilizer based on inverse vulcanization process with soybean oil

SF Valle, AS Giroto, R Klaic, GGF Guimarães… - … degradation and stability, 2019 - Elsevier
Sulfur deficiency in soils has become an increasing concern over the past decades. Despite
elemental sulfur (S 8) vast utilization as a commercial fertilizer, S 8 has to be biologically …

Sustainable inverse-vulcanised sulfur polymers

DJ Parker, ST Chong, T Hasell - RSC advances, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We demonstrate two renewable crosslinkers that can stabilise sustainable high sulfur
content polymers, via inverse-vulcanisation. With increasing levels of sulfur produced as a …

High sulfur content polymers: The effect of crosslinker structure on inverse vulcanization

JA Smith, X Wu, NG Berry… - Journal of Polymer Science …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
INTRODUCTION Inverse vulcanized high sulfur content polymers have attracted much
attention recently due to their potentially low cost and diverse applications. More than 60 …

Self-Healing and Recyclable Vulcanized Polyisoprene Based on a Sulfur-Rich Copolymer Cross-Linking Agent Derived from Inverse Vulcanization

Y Huang, Y Liu, G Si, C Tan - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The sulfur vulcanization process has been widely used in the rubber industry, but it is difficult
to obtain self-healing and recyclable vulcanized rubber. The latter can be obtained by …