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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2026

Mono-Materials Created by Engineering a Continuum of P3HB Stereomicrostructures in a One-Step Catalytic Process.

Ethan C Quinn, Celine R Parker, Maëlle T Gace, Minjung Lee, Shu Xu, Ethan Poppen, Zhen Zhang, Deepak K Barange, Meltem Urgun-Demirtas, Nicholas Rorrer and 1 more

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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11 authors.

Ethan C Quinn *Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1872, USA.
Celine R Parker *Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1872, USA.
Maëlle T GaceDepartment of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1872, USA.
Minjung LeeRenewable Resources and Enabling Sciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, 80401, USA.
Shu XuDepartment of Sustainable Materials and Processes, Applied Materials Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA.
Ethan PoppenDepartment of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1872, USA.
Zhen ZhangDepartment of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1872, USA.
Deepak K BarangeDepartment of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1872, USA.
Meltem Urgun-DemirtasDepartment of Sustainable Materials and Processes, Applied Materials Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA.
Nicholas 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, 80523-1872, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7512-3484

Funding

Colorado State University DE-AC36-08GO28308National Renewable Energy Laboratory DE-AC02-06CH11357U.S. Department of Energy
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multi-material products that combine multiple complementary polymers can create products with desired performance but present challenges to end-of-life (EoL) management. The emerging mono-material product design based on a single polymer type addresses the fundamental EoL issue, but challenges of delivering vastly tunable material properties by the single polymer still remain. Here, we introduce a simple strategy to produce biodegradable poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (P3HB) materials with a wide range of material properties by engineering a stereomicrostructure continuum, achieved through polymerizing diastereomeric mixtures of racemic and meso-dimethyl diolides at various feed ratios with a single catalyst. This one-step, one-pot process produces biodegradable P3HB mono-materials ranging from rigid to flexible thermoplastics, to tough thermoplastic elastomers, to a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA), which have been then combined to fabricate prototype all-P3HB PSA tapes, demonstrating the feasibility of designing mono-material products through engineering polymer stereomicrostructures.

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All‐P3HB tapesBiodegradable polymerMono‐materialsP3HB stereomicrostructurePoly(3‐hydroxybutyrate)

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PMID41294159
PMCPMC12811665

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