Towards Upcycling Biomass-Derived Crosslinked Polymers with Light

Author(s)

Ravichandranath Singathi, Bowling Green State UniversityFollow
Ramya Raghunathan
Retheesh Krishnan
Saravana Kumar Rajendran
Sruthy Baburaj, Bowling Green State UniversityFollow
Mukund P. Sibi
Dean C. Webster
Jayaraman Sivaguru, Bowling Green State UniversityFollow

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Article

Abstract

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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Repository Citation

Singathi, Ravichandranath; Raghunathan, Ramya; Krishnan, Retheesh; Kumar Rajendran, Saravana; Baburaj, Sruthy; Sibi, Mukund P.; Webster, Dean C.; and Sivaguru, Jayaraman, "Towards Upcycling Biomass-Derived Crosslinked Polymers with Light" (2022). Chemistry Faculty Publications. 190.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/chem_pub/190

Publication Date

5-11-2022

Publication Title

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Publisher

Wiley

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202203353

Volume

61

Issue

31