Design of functional and sustainable polymers assisted by artificial intelligence

H Tran, R Gurnani, C Kim, G Pilania, HK Kwon… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence (AI)-based methods continue to make inroads into accelerated
materials design and development. Here, we review AI-enabled advances made in the …

Machine learning to enhance sustainable plastics: A review

C Guarda, J Caseiro, A Pires - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2024 - Elsevier
Plastic pollution requires advances in the production, use, and recovery of plastics to
minimize environmental and human-health impacts. Machine Learning (ML) has been …

Ring-opening polymerization of lactones to prepare closed-loop recyclable polyesters

Z Li, Y Shen, Z Li - Macromolecules, 2024 - ACS Publications
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 …

Rapid marine degradable poly (butylene oxalate) by introducing promotion building blocks

Z Tu, L Wang, Y Lu, Y Li, L Sang, Y Zhang… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
The design and development of high-performance marine-degradable plastics have long
been considered a superior strategy to address marine plastic pollution. To achieve a …

AI for organic and polymer synthesis

X Hong, Q Yang, K Liao, J Pei, M Chen, F Mo… - Science China …, 2024 - Springer
Recent years have witnessed the transformative impact from the integration of artificial
intelligence with organic and polymer synthesis. This synergy offers innovative and …

Circularity in polydiketoenamine thermoplastics via control over reactive chain conformation

J Demarteau, AR Epstein, LJ Reed, NR Ciccia… - Science …, 2025 - science.org
Controlling the reactivity of bonds along polymer chains enables both functionalization and
deconstruction with relevance to chemical recycling and circularity. Because the substrate is …

[HTML][HTML] Biodegradable thermoplastic elastomers synthesized from C7–C10 aliphatic dicarboxylic acids, 2-methyl-1, 3-propanediol, and L-lactide

Y Nakayama, T Matsu-ura, R Tanaka, T Shiono… - Polymer Degradation …, 2024 - Elsevier
Elastic materials with high biodegradability should replace those with low biodegradability in
some applications. We previously reported biodegradable thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) …

Biodegradable Polyester-Based Vitrimers Exhibiting Transesterification-Induced Topography Isomerization under Recycling

SY Chien, J Wang, YL Liu - ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2024 - ACS Publications
In this work, biodegradable and polyester-based vitrimers possessing dynamic ester bonds
are prepared by chemically cross-linking− OH-containing poly (glycerol sebacate)(PGS) with …

Toward a Circular Bioeconomy: Designing Microbes and Polymers for Biodegradation

V Mubayi, CB Ahern, M Calusinska… - ACS synthetic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Polymer production is rapidly increasing, but there are no large-scale technologies available
to effectively mitigate the massive accumulation of these recalcitrant materials. One potential …

Synthesis of Statistical Multiblock Copolymers through Chain Shuttling Copolymerization with a Thermomechanical Switch Behavior

A Vittoria, G Urciuoli, S Costanzo, V Ianniello… - …, 2024 - ACS Publications
A high-throughput experimentation (HTE) approach is adopted for the synthesis of a special
class of elastomeric polyolefins with a tailored thermomechanical response …