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ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2026

Sustainable Structural Hot-Melt Adhesives Enabled by Functionalized Crystalline Lamellae.

Zhitao Hu, Anna M Wolff, Yucheng Zhao, Emma M Rettner, Md Shafi Alam, Tom Frederick, Ainara Sangroniz, Garret M Miyake

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Article in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2026. 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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  1. COAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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  3. Acceptorless Dehydrogenative Polymerization.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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8 authors.

Zhitao HuDepartment of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA.
Anna M WolffDepartment of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9806-6918
Yucheng ZhaoDepartment of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA.
Emma M RettnerDepartment of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA.
Md Shafi AlamPOLYMAT and Department of Polymers and Advanced Materials: Physics, Chemistry and Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Donostia-San Sebastián, 20018, Spain.
Tom FrederickDepartment of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA.
Ainara SangronizPOLYMAT and Department of Polymers and Advanced Materials: Physics, Chemistry and Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Donostia-San Sebastián, 20018, Spain.
Garret M MiyakeDepartment of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2451-7090

Funding

Organic Photoredox Catalysts for Synthetic Method DevelopmentR35GM144356 · NIGMS · COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI Garret Morgan Miyake · 2022 to 2026
$2.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM144356U.S. Department of Energy DE-SC0022290
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conventional hot-melt adhesives (HMAs) suffer from low shear strength and poor recyclability, limiting their structural applications. Here, a sustainable HMA system is developed from renewable building blocks that combines strong adhesion with closed-loop chemical recyclability. Incorporating polar functional groups into crystalline lamellae enables efficient stress transfer through rigid domains, achieving a balance between cohesive and adhesive forces. The resulting sulfur-based polymers exhibit shear strengths above 14.7 MPa on wood and 15.1 MPa on stainless steel, along with excellent oxygen and water vapor barrier properties suitable for microelectronic encapsulation. Moreover, these materials can be fully depolymerized from a mixed materials system under mild hydrogenation to regenerate the original monomers. This work establishes a design strategy for structural HMAs that unifies high performance, sustainability, and recyclability.

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closed‐loop recyclingfunctionalized crystalline lamellaehot‐melt adhesivessulfone‐based polymers

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PMID41347853
PMCPMC12878813

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