Towards Upcycling Biomass‐Derived Crosslinked Polymers with Light

Photodegradable, recyclable, and renewable, crosslinked polymers from bioresources show promise towards developing a sustainable strategy to address the issue of plastics degradability and recyclability. Photo processes are not widely exploited for upcycling polymers in spite of the potential to hav...

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Autores principales: Singathi, Ravichandranath, Raghunathan, Ramya, Krishnan, Retheesh, Kumar Rajendran, Saravana, Baburaj, Sruthy, Sibi, Mukund P., Webster, Dean C., Sivaguru, Jayaraman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
Materias:
Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9400847/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35545813
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202203353
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Sumario:Photodegradable, recyclable, and renewable, crosslinked polymers from bioresources show promise towards developing a sustainable strategy to address the issue of plastics degradability and recyclability. Photo processes are not widely exploited for upcycling polymers in spite of the potential to have spatial and temporal control of the degradation in addition to being a green process. In this report we highlight a methodology in which biomass‐derived crosslinked polymers can be programmed to degrade at ≈300 nm with ≈60 % recovery of the monomer. The recovered monomer was recycled back to the crosslinked polymer.

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