ArticleNature chemistry2025
Catalytic closed-loop recycling of polyethylene-like materials produced by acceptorless dehydrogenative polymerization of bio-derived diols.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Precise Structural Design for Chemically Recyclable Polymers.Precision chemistry · 2026Review
- Spontaneous trisulfide metathesis in polar aprotic solvents.Nature chemistry · 2026Article
- Acceptorless Dehydrogenative Polymerization.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Review
- Precision Oligomeric Building Blocks toward Chemically Recyclable Polyolefin-like Materials.Precision chemistry · 2026Review
- Sustainable Structural Hot-Melt Adhesives Enabled by Functionalized Crystalline Lamellae.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Incorporating Carbamate Groups into Polyolefin Elastomers for High Performance and Closed-Loop Recyclability.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026Article
- A Multiply and Long-Chain Branched Polyolefin with Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE)-Like Properties Containing Two Types of Functional Groups.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025Article
- Advances in sustainable polyolefins: synthesis, chemical transformation and recycling.National science review · 2025Review
- Chemically Recyclable and Tunable Polyolefin-Like Multiblock Copolymer Adhesives.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025Article
- Performance-Guided Design of Chemically Recyclable Polymeric Materials: A Case Study on Thermoplastic Elastomers.ACS polymers Au · 2025Review
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Abstract
Petroleum-derived polyolefins exhibit diverse properties and are the most important and largest volume class of plastics. However, polyolefins are difficult to efficiently recycle or break down and are now a persistent global contaminant. Broadly replacing polyolefins with bio-derived and degradable polyethylene-like materials is an important yet challenging endeavour towards sustainable plastics. Here we report a solution for circular bio-based polyethylene-like materials synthesized by acceptorless dehydrogenative polymerization from linear and branched diols and their catalytic closed-loop recycling. The polymerization and depolymerization processes utilize earth-abundant manganese complexes as catalysts. These materials exhibit a wide range of mechanical properties, encompassing thermoplastics to plastomers to elastomers. The branched diols, produced through a thiol-ene click reaction, can be polymerized to plastics with significantly enhanced tensile properties, toughness and adhesive properties. These materials could be depolymerized back to monomers through hydrogenation and were separatable with a monomer recovery of up to 99%, unaffected by the presence of dyes and additives. Overall, this system establishes a route to more sustainable plastics.
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