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ArticleACS central science2025

Depolymerization as a Design Strategy: Depolymerization Etching of Polymerization-Induced Microphase Separations.

Kaden C Stevens, Megan E Lott, Kiana A Treaster, Robert M O'Dea, Adarsh Suresh, Cabell B Eades, Victoria L Thompson, Jared I Bowman, James B Young, Austin M Evans and 3 more

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Article in ACS central science, 2025. 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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13 authors.

Kaden C StevensGeorge and Josephine Butler Polymer Research Laboratory, Center for Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States.
Megan E LottGeorge and Josephine Butler Polymer Research Laboratory, Center for Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9854-6252
Kiana A TreasterGeorge and Josephine Butler Polymer Research Laboratory, Center for Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States.
Robert M O'DeaDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7280-4687
Adarsh SureshPrtizker School of Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States.
Cabell B EadesGeorge and Josephine Butler Polymer Research Laboratory, Center for Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5216-8022
Victoria L ThompsonGeorge and Josephine Butler Polymer Research Laboratory, Center for Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States.
Jared I BowmanGeorge and Josephine Butler Polymer Research Laboratory, Center for Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6469-2251
James B YoungGeorge and Josephine Butler Polymer Research Laboratory, Center for Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1841-9240
Austin M EvansGeorge and Josephine Butler Polymer Research Laboratory, Center for Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3597-2454
Stuart J RowanPrtizker School of Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8176-0594
Thomas H EppsDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2513-0966
Brent S SumerlinGeorge and Josephine Butler Polymer Research Laboratory, Center for Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5749-5444

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thermally triggered depolymerization has traditionally been viewed through the lens of sustainability and recycling, not as a constructive tool for materials design. Herein, we show that selective, thermally triggered depolymerization to gaseous monomer serves as a solvent-free strategy for generating porosity in nanostructured polymer materials, offering a means to bypass the mass transport limitations inherent in conventional solution-based etching. As a demonstration platform, we employed polymerization-induced microphase separation (PIMS) to generate disordered bicontinuous block copolymer structures with embedded depolymerizable domains. By incorporating a methacrylate block susceptible to thermal depolymerization within a cross-linked, depolymerization-resistant styrenic matrix, we developed a process we term depolymerization etching of polymerization-induced microphase separations (DEPIMS). This approach enables highly selective and efficient domain removal via reversion to monomer to produce mesoporous materials with high surface areas (>200 m

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