New sustainable polymers with on-demand depolymerization property

Y Sun, Z An, Y Gao, R Hu, Y Liu, H Lu, XB Lu… - Science China …, 2024 - Springer
To combat the crisis of today's synthetic polymers arising from unsustainable production and
disposal, it is essential for the synthetic polymer community to reshape the current polymer …

Upcycling of Polyamide Wastes to Tertiary Amines Using Mo Single Atoms and Rh Nanoparticles

M Tang, J Shen, F Zhang, Y Zhao, T Gan… - Angewandte …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
The pursuit of sustainable practices through the chemical recycling of polyamide wastes
holds significant potential, particularly in enabling the recovery of a range of nitrogen …

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 …

Ultratough Thermoplastic Elastomers Based on Chemically Recyclable Cycloalkyl-Substituted Polyhydroxyalkanoates

HY Huang, M ** chemically depolymerizable polymers (CDPs) that can revert back to monomers
is of great significance for realizing a circular polymer economy. Poly (thiocarbonate) s …

Recent Advances in the Chemical Recycling of Polyamide for a Sustainable Circular Economy

Y Feng, X Quan, Q Wang, Y Zhang, C Liu… - Industrial & …, 2025 - ACS Publications
Polyamide (PA) constitutes a class of highly versatile polymers that are employed in the
fabrication of fibers, plastics, and membranes. However, the high consumption of the …

Direct Monomer Recovery from Ring-Closing Depolymerization of Thermosets

C Zheng, G Slor, Y Ma, F Stellacci - ACS Macro Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Recovering monomers from the depolymerization of thermosets presents a significant
challenge, which becomes even more daunting if one sets the goal of doing it directly, ie …

Scalable access to functional nylon 6 via ring-opening copolymerization of biobased δ-valerolactam with ε-caprolactam

Y Mao, M Li, Y Tao - Polymer Chemistry, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Copolymerization of ε-caprolactam with functional lactam monomers was an effective
strategy to introduce pendent substituents into nylon 6, which might endow these materials …

A Fluorescent, Ultrastrong, Silicon-Containing Polyamide Hot-Melt Adhesive with a Nanocrystalline Structure Similar to Spider Silk

F Yao, J Zhang - ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2024 - ACS Publications
Spider silk is recognized as one of the strongest naturally occurring materials due to its
unique biphasic structure. Taking inspiration from natural spider silk, an ultrastrong, low …