A high-performance recycling solution for polystyrene achieved by the synthesis of renewable poly(thioether) networks derived from D-limonene. Academic Article

abstract

• 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.

authors

• Maitland, Duncan
• Wooley, Karen

published proceedings

• Adv Mater

author list (cited authors)

• Hearon, K., Nash, L. D., Rodriguez, J. N., Lonnecker, A. T., Raymond, J. E., Wilson, T. S., Wooley, K. L., & Maitland, D. J.

citation count

• 39

complete list of authors

• Hearon, Keith||Nash, Landon D||Rodriguez, Jennifer N||Lonnecker, Alexander T||Raymond, Jeffery E||Wilson, Thomas S||Wooley, Karen L||Maitland, Duncan J

publication date

• March 2014

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

published in

• ADVANCED MATERIALS  Journal

keywords

• Beverages
• Chemistry Techniques, Synthetic
• Cyclohexenes
• Environmental Pollutants
• Food Contamination
• Limonene
• Nanocomposites
• Polymerization
• Polymers
• Polystyrenes
• Recycling
• Renewable Polymers
• Sulfides
• Terpenes
• Thiol-ene Click Chemistry

PubMed Central ID

• 24249666

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1002/adma.201304370

start page

• 1552

end page

• 1558

volume

• 26

issue

• 10

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201304370

user-defined tag

• 12 Responsible Consumption and Production