Simple upcycling of virgin and waste polyethylene into covalent adaptable networks: catalyst-free, radical-based reactive processing with dialkylamino disulfide bonds-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Simple upcycling of virgin and waste polyethylene into covalent adaptable networks: catalyst-free, radical-based reactive processing with dialkylamino disulfide bonds

Published:2022 Issue:46 Volume:10 Page:24726-24745
ISSN:2050-7488
Container-title:Journal of Materials Chemistry A
language:en
Short-container-title:J. Mater. Chem. A

Author:

Fenimore Logan M.¹^ORCID,Chen Boran¹,Torkelson John M.¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA

2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA

Abstract

For the first time, virgin and waste polyethylene (PE) was upcycled using exclusively free-radical methods into reprocessable, thermally stable, and creep-resistant PE covalent adaptable networks capable of dialkylamino disulfide dynamic chemistry.

Funder

Dow Chemical Company

Northwestern University

National Science Foundation

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Materials Science,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/TA/D2TA06364F

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