Breaking the Recycling Bottleneck of Thermosets via Bio-Tailoring Technology.

ABSTRACT: Thermosets present significant recycling challenges due to irreversible chemical crosslinking, resulting in resource waste and environmental pollution. This paper introduces a new strategy for designing thermosets with excellent recycling properties driven by Bio-Tailoring technology, achieving amazing green sustainable development. These thermosets are a class of infusible and insoluble polymers owing to chemical crosslinking. The indole groups in the cross-linked network can be accurately identified and tailored by microorganisms, giving rise to the cross-linked network being tailored into new linear polymers and small molecule segments, named the Bio-Tailoring technology. Linear polymers can be used as a new plastic packaging material that involves high transparency and appreciable mech

SUBMITTER: Yu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12279215 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature