Chemistry Faculty Publications
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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