Yu, J;
Wang, H;
Xu, Y;
Wemegah, B;
Lan, Y;
Li, J;
Yang, L;
(2025)
Breaking the Recycling Bottleneck of Thermosets via Bio-Tailoring Technology.
Advanced Science
, Article e2501617. 10.1002/advs.202501617.
(In press).
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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 mechanical properties. Meanwhile, the cross-linked small molecule moiety is a fluorescent functional unit with a unique push-pull electronic structure that leads to color-changing under external stimulation and can be applied to anti-counterfeiting. Overall, this strategy provides an innovative solution for the sustainable recycling of thermosets and opens a new path for the environmental transformation of the plastics industry.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Breaking the Recycling Bottleneck of Thermosets via Bio-Tailoring Technology |
| Location: | Germany |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/advs.202501617 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202501617 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Advanced Science published by Wiley-VCH GmbH. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | bio‐tailoring technology, eco‐friendliness, recycling, thermosets |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10209613 |
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