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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2025

Chemically Recyclable and Tunable Polyolefin-Like Multiblock Copolymer Adhesives.

Yucheng Zhao, Ethan C Quinn, Megan E Battson, Emma M Rettner, Joel Miscall, Nicholas A Rorrer, Eugene Y-X Chen, Garret M Miyake

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  3. Acceptorless Dehydrogenative Polymerization.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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  4. Chemically Recyclable and Tunable Polyolefin-Like Multiblock Copolymer Adhesives.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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Yucheng ZhaoDepartment of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.
Ethan C QuinnDepartment of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.
Megan E BattsonSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.
Emma M RettnerSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.
Joel MiscallRenewable Resources and Enabling Sciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401, USA.
Nicholas A RorrerRenewable Resources and Enabling Sciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401, USA.
Eugene Y-X ChenDepartment of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.
Garret M MiyakeDepartment of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2451-7090

Funding

National Renewable Energy Laboratory
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adhesives are important in creating multilayer products, such as in packaging and construction. Most current hot-melt adhesives such as poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) (EVA) and polyurethanes lack chemical recyclability and do not easily de-bond, complicating recycling. Here, we achieved tunable adhesive properties of chemically recyclable polyolefin-like multiblock copolymers through regulating the incorporation of crystalline hard blocks, amorphous soft blocks, and ester content highlighted by adhesive strengths up to 6.80 MPa. We further demonstrated applications of these adhesives in multi-layer films and showed that the adhesives can be readily de-bonded, recovered, and chemically recycled. Overall, this study into structure-property relationships, including effects of crystallinity, soft-block incorporation, and ester content of the multiblock copolymers on adhesive properties, has resulted in a modular hot-melt adhesive platform that exhibits chemical recyclability for virgin-quality adhesive re-generation, reprocessability for repeated reuse of the recovered adhesive, and tunability for designing adhesives with a wide range of low to high (up to ∼80% stronger than EVA) adhesion strengths.

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AdhesivesChemically recyclableMultiblockMultilayer materialsPolyethylene‐like

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PMID40916749
PMCPMC12535384

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