Heat‐ or Water‐Driven Malleability in a Highly Recyclable Covalent Network Polymer
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A catalyst-free malleable network polymer that can be reprocessed by application of either water or heat is prepared through imine chemistry. This material is recycled from a fine powder to a coherent solid with >100% recycling efficiency through several generations. It is also reprocessed at ambient temperature using only water, thus potentially leading to energy-neutral green processing of the material.
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- Authors
- Taynton, P., Yu, K., Shoemaker, R. K., Jin, Y., Qi, H. J., & Zhang, W.
- Affiliations
- University of Colorado Boulder (US)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder CO 80309–0215 USA
- Corresponding author
- Zhang, Wei
- Venue
- Advanced Materials
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2014-03-27
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 23
- Pages
- 3938-3942
- ISSN
- 0935-9648 (ISSN-L)
- 1521-4095
- OpenAlex
- W2162021515
- Cited by
- 890
- References
- 30
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- FWCI
- 19.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Advanced Materials (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Polymers and Plastics › Polymer composites and self-healing
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Covalent Organic Framework Applications
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Polymers and Plastics › Polymer crystallization and properties
- Keywords
- catalyst-free polymerization, imine chemistry, polymer recycling, recyclable polymers, green processing
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