Laboratory of Circular Polymers: Preventing Plastics to be Wasted

Laboratory of Circular Polymers (LCP) is a joint laboratory devoted to the various approaches towards searching for a solutions how to avoid plastics waste by making it a source for new polymer manufacture.

At the moment the laboratory is lead by Prof. Merna  but we are looking for junior group leader with main focus on this topic.

Current topics and research groups involved:

prof. Jan Merna (B128): Making polyolefins to become a paper for 21st century, compatibilization of plastic waste by block and graft copolymers prepared by catalytic way.

Prof. Jiri Brozek (B125): Looking for (highly reversible) ROP as a solution for plastics circularity

dr. Stella Gonsales (B119): Chemical recycling of polyolefins by alkane metathesis

Project related references:

Haque, F. M.; Ishibashi, J. S. A.; Lidston, C. A. L.; Shao, H.; Bates, F. S.; Chang, A. B.; Coates, G. W.; Cramer, C. J.; Dauenhauer, P. J.; Dichtel, W. R.; Ellison, C. J.; Gormong, E. A.; Hamachi, L. S.; Hoye, T. R.; Jin, M.; Kalow, J. A.; Joong Kim, H.; Kumar, G.; LaSalle, C. J.; Liffland, S.; Lipinski, B. M.; Pang, Y.; Parveen, R.; Peng, X.; Popowski, Y.; Prebihalo, E. A.; Reddi, Y.; Reineke, T. M.; Sheppard, D. T.; Swartz, J. L.; Tolman, W. B.; Vlaisavljevich, B.; Wissinger, J.; Xu, S.; Hillmyer, M. A.Defining the Macromolecules of Tomorrow through Synergistic Sustainable Polymer Research.Chem. Rev.2022, 122,6, 6322-6373. doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00173

Klimovica, Kristine; Pan, Sanshui; Lin, Ting-Wei, Peng, Xiayu; Ellison, Christopher J.; LaPointe, Anne M.; Bates, Frank S.; Coates, Geoffrey W. Compatibilization of iPP/HDPE Blends with PE-g–iPP Graft Copolymers. ACS Macro Lett. 2020, 9, 1161−1166. doi: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.0c00339