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Our work with @williamsgroupox.bsky.social uncovering thermodynamic and kinetic relationships in depolymerization catalysis is out in @jacs.acspublications.org. Congrats to Thom McGuire & David Ning who led the study. Thanks @royalsociety.org @ukcatalysishub.bsky.social. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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This perspective is centered on synergistic heteronuclear catalysts across three different fields of catalysis - electrocatalysis, polymerization catalysis, and asymmetric catalysis.
Congratulations to Kat, Fran, @freyab98.bsky.social , and Rosie 🧪🎉
Our latest work on "Controlled Catalysis Delivering High Molecular Weight Polyesters as Recyclable Alternatives to Polystyrenes" is now online in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! 🧪🪢♻️
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Congratulations to @kampoon1.bsky.social who has been awarded the 2025 Jon Weaver Prize for the best PhD in polymer chemistry in the UK! 🥳
Our work on 'Toughened commercial poly(l-lactide) (PLLA) using degradable and recyclable poly(ester-alt-ether)-b-PLLA' is out now in Green Chemistry as part of the 25th Anniversary Collection!
Congratulations to Sandy, Ryan, Thom, and Lukas! 🧪💚
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Congratulations to @norajannsen.bsky.social, @kampoon1.bsky.social, Sandy, and @bonny-gao.bsky.social 🎉🧪
Excited to share our latest work - a perspective on 'General, Quantified Structure-Performance Correlations for Synergistic Heteronuclear Electro-, Polymerization, and Asymmetric Catalysts' published in ACS Catalysis!
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Check out our latest work "Using Differential Scanning Calorimetry to Accelerate Polymerization Catalysis: A Toolkit for Miniaturized and Automated Kinetics Measurements" online now in ACS Catalysis!
Congratulations to Thom and David! 🎉🧪
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Check out our latest paper on 'Heterodinuclear Co(III)Na(I) Catalysts for the Ring-Opening Copolymerization of Propene Oxide and Carbon Dioxide' out now in Macromolecules!
Congratulations to @freyab98.bsky.social, Francesca Fiorentini, and Katharina Eisenhardt 🎉🧪
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Our latest paper "High-Performance Recyclable Polyester Elastomers Through Transient Strain-Stiffening" is out now in Advanced Materials!
Congrats to @bonny-gao.bsky.social, @kampoon1.bsky.social, @matildeconcilio.bsky.social, Thomas, and George! 🧪💚♻️
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Transient strain-crystallization simultaneously strengthens and toughens block polyester elastomers while conserving recyclability. Using controlled polymerization catalysis and commercial monomers, ...
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Polymer recycling must accelerate to limit ever-growing wastes and carbon dioxide emissions. Polymer chemical recycling to monomer enables multiple closed recycling loops, tackling the material and pr...
