Themed collection Polymer Chemistry Recent HOT Articles

This review outlines chemical recycling of PET to virgin PET or novel materials via depolymerization-repolymerization and direct conversion. Advanced catalysts and novel recycling processes offer environmental and economic advantages.

This review summarizes the latest advancements in phase-change hydrogels, covering synthesis, thermal responsiveness regulation, and applications.

AI-driven polymer science: a structured perspective on integrating machine learning for data analysis, property prediction, and automated research workflows.

Pressure sensitive adhesives are prepared from polyester-based pentablock copolymers using switchable polymerisation catalysis and bio-derived monomers.

Crosslinked bis(triphenylphosphine)iminium chlorides are recyclable catalysts for small molecule CO₂ and CO insertions and polymerisations.

PSar/PEG SIN hydrogels formed via orthogonal photo-crosslinking show enhanced mechanical properties and cytocompatibility compared to the individual hydrogels, demonstrating strong potential as biocompatible materials for tissue applications.

Impact of terminal block structure on the self-assembly of vinyl ether maleic acid copolymers with lipids is investigated. The results indicate that terminal block can fine tune the size of self-assembled nanodiscs between the polymers and lipids.

The polymerization processes leading to the formation of g-C₃N₄ from dicyandiamide and cyanamide precursors are unveiled. The mechanistic insights revealed will aid the rational design of g-C₃N₄ to further enhance solar energy conversion efficiency.

The straightforward incorporation of labile β-amino ester moieties into the main backbone of industrially relevant thermoplastic polyurethane allows for a catalyst-free synthesis and chemical degradation under mild conditions.

Trithiocarbonates are more effective and have a different initiation mechanism than dithiobenzoates for the RAFT depolymerization of PMMA in toluene.

This article presents HMF derived epoxide copolymerization with cyclic anhydrides, adding aldehyde groups into the polyester backbone. Orthogonal post-polymerization modification of poly(CFGE-alt-(exo-NA)) exploits aldehyde and alkene sites.

A facile and efficient strategy to prepare thioamide-containing polymers in a controlled fashion is developed. The thionation could endow polymers with more pronounced metal-ion-dependent solution behavior and stronger Au/Ag/Hg-coordinating capacity.

Pyridine is shown to be an effective catalyst for the snthesis of low molar mass cyclic polyglcolides via zwittzerionic polymerization. The cyclic polyglycolides form extended-ring crystals in the mass range below m/z 3000.

This article describes a newly synthesized thiol-functional amine synergist and its application as a co-initiator in two-component initiating systems to initiate radical photopolymerization in 3D printing.

A new synthetic method that generates a middle block sulfonated SEBS proton exchange membrane through partial hydrogenation of polystyrene-b-polybutadiene-b-polystyrene and a subsequent thiol–ene click reaction and oxidation.

Bio-based PLA-b-PO₃G_n-b-PLA copolymers were synthesized via ROP of L-/rac-lactide using PO₃G_n macroinitiators. Their chemical structure, thermal behaviour, and nanoparticle self-assembly into nanoparticles were thoroughly studied.

Highly stereoregular conjugated polysilanes were synthesized from well-defined diastereomeric building blocks.

Roadmap to obtain acrylate-specific rate coefficients/Arrhenius parametersrr via PLP-SEC.

Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC) is well established as the gold standard for routine molecular weight analysis of polymers giving both mass and mass dispersity information.

The second-order nonlinear optical effect was largely enhanced by gradually introducing alkoxy chains, mainly due to the low rotational barriers and moderate isolation effect to facilitate molecular rotations of chromophore moieties.

Pyridines allow a good control of the cationic photopolymerization of epoxies.