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Sha Y, Chen X, Sun W, Zhou J, He Y, Xu E, Luo Z, Zhou Y, Jia P. Biorenewable and circular polyolefin thermoplastic elastomers. Nat Commun 2024; 15:8480. [PMID: 39353954 PMCID: PMC11445454 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52850-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2024] [Accepted: 09/23/2024] [Indexed: 10/03/2024] Open
Abstract
Polymers capable of depolymerizing back to their own monomers offer a promising solution to address the challenges in polymer sustainability. Despite significant progress has been achieved in plastics circularity, chemical recycling of thermoplastic elastomers is relatively less concerned, largely because of their intrinsic complex multicomponents. This work creates a homopolymer-based platform towards chemically recyclable but tough thermoplastic elastomers. It is enabled by a semicrystalline polymer with high molecular weight but low crystallinity, which is prepared through ring-opening metathesis polymerization of a fully biobased cyclic olefin. By shifting the ring-chain equilibrium, quantitative conversions were achieved for both forward polymerization and reverse depolymerization. This simple circular, high-performance thermoplastic elastomer platform based on biomass highlights the importance of monomer design in addressing three challenges in sustainable polymers: the feedstock renewability, depolymerization selectivity, and performance trade-offs.
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- Ye Sha
- Department of Chemistry and Material Science, College of Science, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, China.
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- Department of Chemistry and Material Science, College of Science, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Material Science, College of Science, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, China
- Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAF), Key Lab of Biomass Energy and Materials, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, Nanjing, 210042, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polymeric Materials & Application Technology of Hunan Province, Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Functional Materials of Hunan Province, College of Chemistry, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Material Science, College of Science, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, China
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- Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Material Science, College of Science, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, China
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- Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAF), Key Lab of Biomass Energy and Materials, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, Nanjing, 210042, China
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- Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAF), Key Lab of Biomass Energy and Materials, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, Nanjing, 210042, China.
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Nébouy M, Morthomas J, Fusco C, Chazeau L, Jabbari-Farouji S, Baeza GP. Mechanistic Understanding of Sticker Aggregation in Supramolecular Polymers: Quantitative Insights from the Plateau Modulus of Triblock Copolymers. Macromolecules 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c01455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Matthias Nébouy
- Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, UCBL, CNRS, MATEIS, UMR5510, 69621Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, UCBL, CNRS, MATEIS, UMR5510, 69621Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, UCBL, CNRS, MATEIS, UMR5510, 69621Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, UCBL, CNRS, MATEIS, UMR5510, 69621Villeurbanne, France
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- Institute of Theoretical Physics (UvA), University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XHAmsterdam, Netherlands
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- Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, UCBL, CNRS, MATEIS, UMR5510, 69621Villeurbanne, France
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Baeza GP. Recent advances on the structure–properties relationship of multiblock copolymers. JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/pol.20210406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- Guilhem P. Baeza
- Univ. Lyon, INSA‐Lyon, CNRS, MATEIS, UMR 5510 Villeurbanne France
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Ghiassinejad S, Mortensen K, Rostamitabar M, Malineni J, Fustin CA, van Ruymbeke E. Dynamics and Structure of Metallo-supramolecular Polymers Based on Short Telechelic Precursors. Macromolecules 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Sina Ghiassinejad
- Bio and Soft Matter Division, Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences, Université catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 1165 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Bio and Soft Matter Division, Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences, Université catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- Bio and Soft Matter Division, Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences, Université catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- Bio and Soft Matter Division, Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences, Université catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- Bio and Soft Matter Division, Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences, Université catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Sbrescia S, Ju J, Engels T, Van Ruymbeke E, Seitz M. Morphological origins of temperature and rate dependent mechanical properties of model soft thermoplastic elastomers. JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/pol.20200791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Laboratoire Sciences et Ingénierie de la Matière Molle, ESPCI Paris PSL University, CNRS, Sorbonne Université Paris France
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- Materials Science Center DSM Geleen The Netherlands
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- Bio and Soft Matter Division (BSMA), Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences (IMCN) Université Catholique de Louvain Louvain‐la‐Neuve Belgium
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Nébouy M, Morthomas J, Fusco C, Baeza GP, Chazeau L. Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Modeling of Segmented Block Copolymers: Impact of the Chain Architecture on Crystallization and Morphology. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b02549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Matthias Nébouy
- Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, CNRS, MATEIS, UMR5510, F-69621 Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, CNRS, MATEIS, UMR5510, F-69621 Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, CNRS, MATEIS, UMR5510, F-69621 Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, CNRS, MATEIS, UMR5510, F-69621 Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, CNRS, MATEIS, UMR5510, F-69621 Villeurbanne, France
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