Intermetallic synergy can be useful to both enhance catalytic performance and access diverse chemistries, but understanding and predicting the most effective metal combinations remains a challenge. Th...

A more sustainable future for plastics relies on the development of high performance materials that are renewably sourced, recycled without suffering losses in performance, and which are, ultimately, ...

The ring-opening copolymerization of propene oxide and carbon dioxide is an effective route to make polycarbonates. Catalysts showing high activities, high polymer selectivities, molecular weight cont...

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...

Transient strain-crystallization simultaneously strengthens and toughens block polyester elastomers while conserving recyclability. Using controlled polymerization catalysis and commercial monomers, ...

Understanding catalysts, and improving their future performances, requires quantification of their kinetic and thermodynamic parameters, including measurement of rate constants (kobs), transition stat...

Cyclic anhydride and epoxide ring-opening copolymerization is a versatile and controlled route to make polyesters, gaining attention in different application sectors but so far the chemical recycling...

With the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Plastics coming to an end, we explore how this research programme has helped develop a holistic solution…

In homogeneous catalysis, uncovering structure-activity relationships remains very rare but invaluable to understand and rationally improve performances. Here, generalizable structure-activity relati...

Increasing the diversity of bio-based polymers is needed to address the combined problems of plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. The magnitude of the problems necessitates rapid discovery...

The ring-opening copolymerization (ROCOP) of epoxides with CO2 or anhydrides is a promising strategy to produce sustainable polycarbonates and polyesters. Currently, most catalysts are reliant on scar...