A High-Performance Recycling Solution for Polystyrene Achieved by the Synthesis of Renewable Poly(thioether) Networks Derived from d-Limonene

Nanocomposite polymers are prepared using a new sustainable materials synthesis process in which d‐Limonene functions simultaneously both as a solvent for recycling polystyrene (PS) waste and as a monomer that undergoes UV‐catalyzed thiol‐ene polymerization reactions with polythiol comonomers to aff...

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Published in:Advanced materials (Weinheim) 2014-03, Vol.26 (10), p.1552-1558
Main Authors: Hearon, Keith, Nash, Landon D., Rodriguez, Jennifer N., Lonnecker, Alexander T., Raymond, Jeffery E., Wilson, Thomas S., Wooley, Karen L., Maitland, Duncan J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Beverages - analysis
Chemical reactions
Chemistry Techniques, Synthetic
Cyclohexenes - chemistry
Elastomers
Environmental Pollutants - chemistry
Environmental Pollutants - isolation & purification
Food Contamination
Limonene
Materials science
Mechanical properties
Monomers
Nanocomposites
Networks
Phases
Polymerization
Polymers - chemical synthesis
Polymers - chemistry
Polystyrene resins
Polystyrenes - chemistry
Polystyrenes - isolation & purification
Recycling
renewable polymers
Solvents
Sulfides - chemical synthesis
Sulfides - chemistry
Synthesis
Terpenes - chemistry
thiol-ene click chemistry
Wastes
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Summary:Nanocomposite polymers are prepared using a new sustainable materials synthesis process in which d‐Limonene functions simultaneously both as a solvent for recycling polystyrene (PS) waste and as a monomer that undergoes UV‐catalyzed thiol‐ene polymerization reactions with polythiol comonomers to afford polymeric products composed of precipitated PS phases dispersed throughout elastomeric poly(thioether) networks. These blended networks exhibit mechanical properties that greatly exceed those of either polystyrene or the poly(thioether) network homopolymers alone.
ISSN:0935-9648
1521-4095
DOI:10.1002/adma.201304370