Progress in Polymer Science 2018-02-03

Synthesis and Properties of CO2-based Plastics: Environmentally-Friendly, Energy-saving and Biomedical Polymeric Materials

Yonghang Xu, Limiao Lin, Min Xiao, Shuanjin Wang, Andrew T. Smith, Luyi Sun, Yuezhong Meng

Index: 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2018.01.006

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Abstract

Production of biodegradable plastics from carbon dioxide, particularly as a means of recycling industrial waste gas, is a promising advancement in environmental and energy conservation. Recent research and development on CO2-based copolymers has demonstrated new approaches to achieve improvements of thermal and mechanical properties, and extension of functionalization, and practical applications. CO2-based plastics may soon become commercially accessible as a new class of environmentally-friendly, energy-saving and biomedical polymeric materials.