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NATURE
Volume 540, Issue 7633, Pages 354-362Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nature21001
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- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K035274/1, EP/M013839/1, EP/L017393/1, EP/K014070/1]
- China Scholarship Council Imperial Scholarship
- EPSRC [EP/K014668/1, EP/K035274/1, EP/K014676/1, EP/H046380/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K014668/1, EP/H046380/1, EP/K035274/1, EP/K014676/1, EP/C544838/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Renewable resources are used increasingly in the production of polymers. In particular, monomers such as carbon dioxide, terpenes, vegetable oils and carbohydrates can be used as feedstocks for the manufacture of a variety of sustainable materials and products, including elastomers, plastics, hydrogels, flexible electronics, resins, engineering polymers and composites. Efficient catalysis is required to produce monomers, to facilitate selective polymerizations and to enable recycling or upcycling of waste materials. There are opportunities to use such sustainable polymers in both high-value areas and in basic applications such as packaging. Life-cycle assessment can be used to quantify the environmental benefits of sustainable polymers.
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