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Designed to Degrade: Tailoring Polyesters for Circularity.
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25 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Solventless, ambient-pressure production of bio-based lactones over earth-abundant, mixed metal oxide catalysts for circular polyesters.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Recoverable Fluorination Accelerates Ring-Opening Copolymerisation and Enables Post-Polymerisation-Modification of Polyesters.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025Article
- Sustainable Polyaddition Path to Polyesters via Catalytic Homocoupling of Renewable Dicrotonate Monomers.Macromolecules · 2025Article
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- A review on the formulation and performance of epoxidized vegetable oil-based vitrimer: stoichiometric calculations, curing agent functionalities and catalyst efficiency.Royal Society open science · 2025Review
- Polyethylene-like Polyesters: Strategies for Tailoring Mechanical Properties and Adhesion Performance.Macromolecules · 2025Article
- Entropy Drives the Predictive Discovery of an Optimal Cleavable Comonomer for ROMP.ACS central science · 2025Article
- Biodegradable, Biocompatible, and Crosslinkable Polymers Enable Biosafe and Sustainable Soft Gels and Nanogels for Biomedical Applications.Polymer science & technology (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Article
- End-Functionalized Biobased Aliphatic Polyesters Exhibiting Unique Emission/Thermal Properties.ACS polymers Au · 2025Article
- Controlled Catalysis Delivering High Molecular Weight Polyesters as Recyclable Alternatives to Polystyrenes.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025Article
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Abstract
A powerful toolbox is needed to turn the linear plastic economy into circular. Development of materials designed for mechanical recycling, chemical recycling, and/or biodegradation in targeted end-of-life environment are all necessary puzzle pieces in this process. Polyesters, with reversible ester bonds, are already forerunners in plastic circularity: poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) is the most recycled plastic material suitable for mechanical and chemical recycling, while common aliphatic polyesters are biodegradable under favorable conditions, such as industrial compost. However, this circular design needs to be further tailored for different end-of-life options to enable chemical recycling under greener conditions and/or rapid enough biodegradation even under less favorable environmental conditions. Here, we discuss molecular design of the polyester chain targeting enhancement of circularity by incorporation of more easily hydrolyzable ester bonds, additional dynamic bonds, or degradation catalyzing functional groups as part of the polyester chain. The utilization of polyester circularity to design replacement materials for current volume plastics is also reviewed as well as embedment of green catalysts, such as enzymes in biodegradable polyester matrices to facilitate the degradation process.
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