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ReviewJACS Au2026

Reactive Melt Extrusion for Polymer Deconstruction and Upcycling.

Jared A Nettles, Timothy E Long, Kailong Jin

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Review in JACS Au, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jared A NettlesChemical Engineering, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, United States.
Timothy E LongBiodesign Center for Sustainable Macromolecular Materials and Manufacturing, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9515-5491
Kailong JinChemical Engineering, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5428-3227

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Global attention increasingly focuses on innovative recycling and upcycling strategies to advance polymer sustainability and reduce plastic waste. Reactive melt extrusion (RME) enables solvent-free polymer deconstruction and functionalization in the melt state, aligning with the principles of green chemistry: minimizing waste, avoiding solvents, and reducing energy consumption. RME leverages legacy polymer processing infrastructure, i.e., single- and twin-screw extruders, to empower rapid technology adaptation for research and industrial applications. This Perspective highlights the development of RME for rapid polymer deconstruction, emphasizing broad applicability for thermoplastics and thermosets that are derived from both chain-growth and step-growth polymerization processes. In addition, the RME platform offers rapid upcycling of plastic waste into vitrimers and other value-added materials with renewed service life, overall promoting polymer sustainability. Emerging

Indexed as

covalent adaptable networkspolymer circularitypolymer deconstructionpolymer depolymerizationpolymer recyclingreactive extrusionsustainabilityvitrimers

Identifiers

PMID41755870
PMCPMC12933313

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