Chemically recyclable polyolefin-like multiblock polymers.

ABSTRACT: Polyolefins are the most important and largest volume plastics produced. Unfortunately, the enormous use of plastics and lack of effective disposal or recycling options have created a plastic waste catastrophe. In this work, we report an approach to create chemically recyclable polyolefin-like materials with diverse mechanical properties through the construction of multiblock polymers from hard and soft oligomeric building blocks synthesized with ruthenium-mediated ring-opening metathesis polymerization of cyclooctenes. The multiblock polymers exhibit broad mechanical properties, spanning elastomers to plastomers to thermoplastics, while integrating a high melting transition temperature (T_m) and low glass transition temperature (T_g), making them suitable

SUBMITTER: Zhao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10710102 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature