The path to to chemically recyclable polymers: catalytic synthesis of 1,3-dioxacycloalkanes and their controlled polymerization to high MW polymers KU Leuven
The transition from a linear economy to a fully circular, closed loop economy goes along two tracks. First, for existing materials, improved recycling techniques are desired; but most current polymer types are hard to recycle to identical chemical building blocks. The alternative is to develop materials that are designed to be easily chemically recycled to their original monomers (‘CRM’). In this PhD, the focus is on such a class of polymers, ...