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Biodegradable Polyhydroxyalkanoates by Stereoselective Copolymerization of Racemic Diolides: Stereocontrol and Polyolefin-Like Properties

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An engineered PET depolymerase to break down and recycle plastic bottles

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Chemical recycling to monomer for an ideal, circular polymer economy

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Cleavable comonomers enable degradable, recyclable thermoset plastics

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Geminal Dimethyl Substitution Enables Controlled Polymerization of Penicillamine-Derived β-Thiolactones and Reversed Depolymerization

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High-performance pan-tactic polythioesters with intrinsic crystallinity and chemical recyclability

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Fully Recyclable Metastable Polymers and Composites

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4-Hydroxyproline-Derived Sustainable Polythioesters: Controlled Ring-Opening Polymerization, Complete Recyclability, and Facile Functionalization

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Synthesis and Controlled Organobase-Catalyzed Ring-Opening Polymerization of Morpholine-2,5-Dione Derivatives and Monomer Recovery by Acid-Catalyzed Degradation of the Polymers

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Closed-loop recycling of plastics enabled by dynamic covalent diketoenamine bonds

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Adaptable Crosslinks in Polymeric Materials: Resolving the Intersection of Thermoplastics and Thermosets

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Stereosequenced crystalline polyhydroxyalkanoates from diastereomeric monomer mixtures

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Packaging materials with desired mechanical and barrier properties and full chemical recyclability

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Learning Nature: Recyclable Monomers and Polymers

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A synthetic polymer system with repeatable chemical recyclability

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Plastic waste associated with disease on coral reefs

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Unraveling substituent effects on the glass transition temperatures of biorenewable polyesters

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Chemical synthesis of perfectly isotactic and high melting bacterial poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) from bio-sourced racemic cyclic diolide

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Catalyst-Sidearm-Induced Stereoselectivity Switching in Polymerization of a Racemic Lactone for Stereocomplexed Crystalline Polymer with a Circular Life Cycle

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Dual Organocatalysts for Highly Active and Selective Synthesis of Linear Poly(γ-butyrolactone)s with High Molecular Weights

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Toward Infinitely Recyclable Plastics Derived from Renewable Cyclic Esters

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Chemically recyclable polymers: a circular economy approach to sustainability

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“Nonstrained” γ-Butyrolactone-Based Copolyesters: Copolymerization Characteristics and Composition-Dependent (Thermal, Eutectic, Cocrystallization, and Degradation) Properties

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50th Anniversary Perspective: There Is a Great Future in Sustainable Polymers

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Functionalized Polyesters with Tunable Degradability Prepared by Controlled Ring-Opening (Co)polymerization of Lactones

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Thermal, structural and degradation properties of an aromatic–aliphatic polyester built through ring-opening polymerisation

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The future of plastics recycling

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The promise of plastics from plants

(2017) Marc A. Hillmyer   SCIENCE

Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

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Chemical recycling of waste plastics for new materials production

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Towards Truly Sustainable Polymers: A Metal-Free Recyclable Polyester from Biorenewable Non-Strained γ-Butyrolactone

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Thermodynamic Presynthetic Considerations for Ring-Opening Polymerization

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Fast and selective ring-opening polymerizations by alkoxides and thioureas

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An aromatic/aliphatic polyester prepared via ring-opening polymerisation and its remarkably selective and cyclable depolymerisation to monomer

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A bacterium that degrades and assimilates poly(ethylene terephthalate)

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Dependence of Copolymer Sequencing Based on Lactone Ring Size and ε-Substitution

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Chemically Recyclable Biobased Polyurethanes

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Efficient and selective degradation of polyethylenes into liquid fuels and waxes under mild conditions

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Synthesis and Postpolymerization Modification of One-Pot ω-Pentadecalactone Block-like Copolymers

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Synthesis of ω-Pentadecalactone Copolymers with Independently Tunable Thermal and Degradation Behavior

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Completely recyclable biopolymers with linear and cyclic topologies via ring-opening polymerization of γ-butyrolactone

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Synthesis and Characterization of Yttrium and Ytterbium Complexes Supported by Salen Ligands and Their Catalytic Properties for rac-Lactide Polymerization

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Depolymerizable polymers: preparation, applications, and future outlook

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Synthesis and Properties of Alternating Copolymers of 3-Hydroxybutyrate and Lactate Units with Different Stereocompositions

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Mechanically triggered heterolytic unzipping of a low-ceiling-temperature polymer

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Recyclable, Strong Thermosets and Organogels via Paraformaldehyde Condensation with Diamines

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Structural evolution, sequential oxidation and chemical bonding in tri-yttrium oxide clusters: Y3Ox− and Y3Ox (x = 0–6)

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Bimetallic catalysis in the highly enantioselective ring–opening reactions of aziridines

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Bonding between strongly repulsive metal atoms: an oxymoron made real in a confined space of endohedral metallofullerenes

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Bis(imino)diphenylamido rare-earth metal dialkyl complexes: synthesis, structure, and catalytic activity in living ring-opening ε-caprolactone polymerization and copolymerization with γ-butyrolactone

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Organocatalysis: Opportunities and Challenges for Polymer Synthesis

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Coordination Polymerization of Polar Vinyl Monomers by Single-Site Metal Catalysts

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The Reaction Mechanism for the Organocatalytic Ring-Opening Polymerization ofl-Lactide Using a Guanidine-Based Catalyst: Hydrogen-Bonded or Covalently Bound?

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