Technology development for the production of biobased products from biorefinery carbohydrates—the US Department of Energy's “Top 10” revisited

JJ Bozell, GR Petersen - Green chemistry, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
A biorefinery that supplements its manufacture of low value biofuels with high value
biobased chemicals can enable efforts to reduce nonrenewable fuel consumption while …

Rare-earth metal complexes as catalysts for ring-opening polymerization of cyclic esters

DM Lyubov, AO Tolpygin, AA Trifonov - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
This review is focused on recent advances in the ring-opening polymerization of lactide and
lactones (mainly caprolactone and β-butyrolactone) which were achieved due to the …

A synthetic polymer system with repeatable chemical recyclability

JB Zhu, EM Watson, J Tang, EYX Chen - Science, 2018 - science.org
The development of chemically recyclable polymers offers a solution to the end-of-use issue
of polymeric materials and provides a closed-loop approach toward a circular materials …

Biobased high-performance aromatic–aliphatic polyesters with complete recyclability

YM Tu, XM Wang, X Yang, HZ Fan… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The development of high-performance recyclable polymers represents a circular plastics
economy to address the urgent issues of plastic sustainability. Herein, we design a series of …

Insights into substitution strategy towards thermodynamic and property regulation of chemically recyclable polymers

YM Tu, FL Gong, YC Wu, Z Cai, JB Zhu - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
The development of chemically recyclable polymers serves as an attractive approach to
address the global plastic pollution crisis. Monomer design principle is the key to achieving …

Packaging materials with desired mechanical and barrier properties and full chemical recyclability

A Sangroniz, JB Zhu, X Tang, A Etxeberria… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Plastics have become indispensable in modern life and the material of choice in packaging
applications, but they have also caused increasing plastic waste accumulation in oceans …

Dual recycling of depolymerization catalyst and biodegradable polyester that markedly outperforms polyolefins

XL Li, RW Clarke, HY An, RR Gowda… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Chemically recyclable, circular polymers continue to attract increasing attention, but
rendering both catalysts for depolymerization and high‐performance polymers recyclable is …

Completely recyclable biopolymers with linear and cyclic topologies via ring-opening polymerization of γ-butyrolactone

M Hong, EYX Chen - Nature Chemistry, 2016 - nature.com
Ring-opening polymerization (ROP) is a powerful synthetic methodology for the chemical
synthesis of technologically important biodegradable aliphatic polyesters from cyclic esters …

Stereocontrolled ring-opening polymerisation of lactide

MJ Stanford, AP Dove - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
The important advances and current trends in the stereocontrolled ring-opening
polymerisation of lactide are discussed in this tutorial review. Microstructures, structural …

Stereocontrolled ring-opening polymerization of cyclic esters: synthesis of new polyester microstructures

CM Thomas - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Synthesis of aliphatic polyesters has been studied intensively due to their biocompatible and
biodegradable properties and their potential applications in medical and agricultural fields …