Mechanically Robust Supramolecular Plastics with Energy-Saving and Highly Efficient Closed-Loop Recyclability

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Iron-catalysed synthesis and chemical recycling of telechelic 1,3-enchained oligocyclobutanes

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Degradable Poly(vinyl alcohol)‐Based Supramolecular Plastics with High Mechanical Strength in a Watery Environment

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Robust Superamphiphilic Membrane with a Closed‐Loop Life Cycle

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Closed-loop recycling of polyethylene-like materials

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Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities of Poly(γ-butyrolactone)-Based Recyclable Polymers

(2021) Yihuan Liu et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Hybrid monomer design for unifying conflicting polymerizability, recyclability, and performance properties

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Plastic Pollution: A Material Problem?

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Recycling gives a PET new lease of life

(2021) Cordelia Sealy   Materials Today

Placing nanoplastics in the context of global plastic pollution

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Solution‐Processable and Thermostable Super‐Strong Poly(aryl ether ketone) Supramolecular Thermosets Cross‐Linked with Dynamic Boroxines

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Chemically recyclable thermoplastics from reversible-deactivation polymerization of cyclic acetals

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Toward polymer upcycling—adding value and tackling circularity

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Dynamic Nanoconfinement Enabled Highly Stretchable and Supratough Polymeric Materials with Desirable Healability and Biocompatibility

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Skin-Inspired Healable Conductive Elastomers with Exceptional Strain-Adaptive Stiffening and Damage Tolerance

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Towards high-performance sustainable polymers via isomerization-driven irreversible ring-opening polymerization of five-membered thionolactones

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Vanillin-Based Epoxy Vitrimer with High Performance and Closed-Loop Recyclability

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Green and Facile Preparation of Readily Dual-Recyclable Thermosetting Polymers with Superior Stability Based on Asymmetric Acetal

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Beyond Mechanical Recycling: Giving New Life to Plastic Waste

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Microplastics affect sedimentary microbial communities and nitrogen cycling

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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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The global odyssey of plastic pollution

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Plastic rain in protected areas of the United States

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Accumulation of plastic waste during COVID-19

(2020) Tanveer M. Adyel   SCIENCE

Microplastic regulation should be more precise to incentivize both innovation and environmental safety

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100th Anniversary of Macromolecular Science Viewpoint: Toward Catalytic Chemical Recycling of Waste (and Future) Plastics

(2020) Joshua C. Worch et al.   ACS Macro Letters

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

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Self-Healing Thermoplastic Elastomers Formed from Triblock Copolymers with Dense 1,2,3-Triazole Blocks

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100th Anniversary of Macromolecular Science Viewpoint: Redefining Sustainable Polymers

(2020) Danielle E. Fagnani et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Circular chemistry to enable a circular economy

(2019) Tom Keijer et al.   Nature Chemistry

Separation and Analysis of Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Complex Environmental Samples

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Plastics are forever

(2019) Bruce C. Gibb   Nature Chemistry

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

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

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Recyclable, Strong, and Highly Malleable Thermosets Based on Boroxine Networks

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Plastics recycling with a difference

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A synthetic polymer system with repeatable chemical recyclability

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Robust, Fire-Safe, Monomer-Recovery, Highly Malleable Thermosets from Renewable Bioresources

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Chemically recyclable polymers: a circular economy approach to sustainability

(2017) Miao Hong et al.   GREEN CHEMISTRY

The future of plastics recycling

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Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

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The circular economy

(2016) Walter R. Stahel   NATURE

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

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Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

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Recyclable, Strong Thermosets and Organogels via Paraformaldehyde Condensation with Diamines

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