Development of Thermally-Activated Transient Polymers
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Development of Thermally-Activated Transient Polymers
PI: Maxwell J. Robb
Research Team: Xiaoran Hu and Brook Versaw
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Sunlight to Everything Initiative
2020 Explorer grant
Single-use plastics generate an alarming amount of waste that currently finds its way into the environment. This work aims to develop a new class of materials that can be chemically programmed to depolymerize at the end of their lifetime to yield useful chemical feedstocks.