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Improving Circularity via Chemical Recycling to all Rings
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), Fibre- and Polymer Technology, Polymer Technology.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3644-0839
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), Fibre- and Polymer Technology, Polymer Technology. KTH, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), Centres, Wallenberg Wood Science Center.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5850-8873
Wallenberg Wood Sci Ctr, Stockholm, Sweden; Linköping Univ, Lab Organ Elect, Dept Sci & Technol, Norrköping, Sweden.
2025 (English)In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, ISSN 1433-7851, E-ISSN 1521-3773Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

Aliphatic polyesters synthesized via ring-opening polymerization (ROP) have properties competitive to incumbent plastic (PE, PP), while simultaneously opening up for chemical recycling to monomer (CRM). However, not all aliphatic polyesters are prone to undergo CRM, and the ability to shift the equilibrium between polymer and monomer is tightly associated with the initial monomer structure. The standard strategy to measure CRM is to evaluate the change in free energy during polymerization (triangle GROP). However, triangle GROP is only one-dimensional by assessing the equilibrium between initial monomer and polymer. But under active catalytic conditions, the depolymerization of polymers can lead to formation of larger rings, such as dimers, trimers, tetramers, and so on, via the ring-chain equilibrium (RCE), meaning that the real thermodynamic recycling landscape is multi-dimensional. This work introduces a multi-dimensional chemical recycling to all rings (CRR) via a highly active catalytic system to reach RCE. Thermodynamically triangle GRCE is completely different from triangle GROP. Using triangle GRCE instead of triangle GROP allows us to achieve CRR for polymers notoriously difficult to achieve CRM for, as exemplified within by CRR for poly(epsilon-caprolactone), poly(pentadecalactone), and mixed polymer systems. Overall, this work provides a new general concept of closing the material loop.

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Wiley , 2025.
Keywords [en]
Equilibrium, Recyclable polyester, Recycling, Ring-opening polymerization, Thermodynamics
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Polymer Chemistry
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-362826DOI: 10.1002/anie.202502436ISI: 001449291400001PubMedID: 40017097Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105000540403OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-362826DiVA, id: diva2:1954924
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Available from: 2025-04-28 Created: 2025-04-28 Last updated: 2025-04-28Bibliographically approved

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