| Title | Sustainable Plastics with High Performance and Convenient Processibility |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 12978 |
| Authors | Xu, GG; Hou, L; Wu, PY |
| Title | Sustainable Plastics with High Performance and Convenient Processibility |
| Year | 2024 |
| Published | |
| Abstract | Designing and making sustainable plastics is especially urgent to reduce their ecological and environmental impacts. However, it remains challenging to construct plastics with simultaneous high sustainability and outstanding comprehensive performance. Here, a composite strategy of in situ polymerizing a petroleum-based monomer with the presence of an industrialized bio-derived polymer in a quasi-solvent-free system is introduced, affording the plastic with excellent mechanical robustness, impressive thermal and solvent stability, as well as low energy, consumes during production, processing, and recycling. Particularly, the plastic can be easily processed into diverse shapes through 3D printing, injection molding, etc. during polymerization and further reprocessed into other complex structures via eco-friendly hydrosetting. In addition, the plastic is mechanically robust with Young's modulus of up to 3.7 GPa and tensile breaking strength of up to 150.2 MPa, superior to many commercially available plastics and other sustainable plastics. It is revealed that hierarchical hydrogen bonds in plastic predominate the well-balanced sustainability and performance. This work provides a new path for fabricating high-performance sustainable plastic toward practical applications, contributing to the circular economy. Sustainable plastic is achieved with excellent mechanical robustness, impressive thermal and solvent stability as well as low energy consumption during production, processing, and recycling. The plastic can be easily processed into diverse shapes via 3D printing, injection molding, hydrosetting, etc. Meanwhile, the plastic shows E up to 3.7 GPa and sigma b up to 150.2 MPa, superior to many commercially available plastics and other sustainable plastics. image |
| https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/advs.202405301 |
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