ReviewJournal of the American Chemical Society2023
Reversed Controlled Polymerization (RCP): Depolymerization from Well-Defined Polymers to Monomers.
Review in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.
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48 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Chlorine-Free Depolymerization of Commercial PMMA via Oxygen-Centered Radicals.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
- Lower-temperature bulk depolymerization of commercial polymethacrylates.Nature chemistry · 2026Article
- Catalytic Effect on Simplified Chemical Recycling of Poly(butylene terephthalate).ChemSusChem · 2026Article
- The Synthesis and Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of Energetic Norbornene Materials.ACS polymers Au · 2026Article
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- Sustainable RAFT Polymerization and Depolymerization Systems Based onPolymer science & technology (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Sustainable Materials: A Conceptual Gap in Definition.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Universal Approach for the Depolymerization of Polyamides via Photothermal Conversion.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026Article
- Entropy-Driven Design of Depolymerizable Polyolefins from Strained Bridged Bicyclic Monomers.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026Article
- Depolymerization-Induced Morphological Transformation.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026Article
- Beyond Traditional RAFT Polymerization: Emerging Strategies and Future Perspectives; A Third Update.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Photo-initiated solvent-mediated depolymerization of consumer poly(methyl methacrylate) without chlorinated reagents.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Supramolecular driven crystallization controls polymer recycling.Nature nanotechnology · 2025Article
- Supramolecular chemical recycling of dynamic polymers.Nature nanotechnology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Controlled polymerization methods are well-established synthetic protocols for the design and preparation of polymeric materials with a high degree of precision over molar mass and architecture. Exciting recent work has shown that the high end-group fidelity and/or functionality inherent in these techniques can enable new routes to depolymerization under relatively mild conditions. Converting polymers back to pure monomers by depolymerization is a potential solution to the environmental and ecological concerns associated with the ultimate fate of polymers. This perspective focuses on the emerging field of depolymerization from polymers synthesized by controlled polymerizations including radical, ionic, and metathesis polymerizations. We provide a critical review of current literature categorized according to polymerization technique and explore numerous concepts and ideas which could be implemented to further enhance depolymerization including lower temperature systems, catalytic depolymerization, increasing polymer scope, and controlled depolymerization.
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