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ReviewPrecision chemistry2025

Standardizing Depolymerization: Strategies and Performance Metrics.

Céline Calvino, Diego M Alzate-Sánchez, Jacob J Lessard

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Review in Precision chemistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Céline CalvinoCluster of Excellence livMatS, University of Freiburg, Freiburg 79110, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8582-6108
Diego M Alzate-SánchezDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2744-3007
Jacob J LessardDepartment of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2962-6472

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The widespread use of polymeric materials has brought unparalleled convenience and utility, but their environmental persistence presents a critical and growing challenge. As demand increases for sustainable solutions to polymer waste, depolymerization continues to be a promising strategy for achieving true circularity. In this Perspective, we examine depolymerization from a fundamental standpoint, aiming to rationalize the advantages, limitations, and future directions of state-of-the-art technologies. We advocate for standardized reporting practices to enable meaningful comparisons across studies and, in alignment with this goal, we provide key metrics and contextual information throughout the article to support consistent evaluation of different depolymerization strategies. Ultimately, we hope to inspire readers to explore innovative and scalable solutions that advance the transformative potential of depolymerization toward the realization of a circular polymer economy.

Indexed as

closed-loop systemsdepolymerizationpolymer recyclingpotential energy surfaceself-immolative polymersstandardizationstimuli

Identifiers

PMID41312083
PMCPMC12648417

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