Our paper on mechanochemically prepared Grignard reagents is finally out now in Nature Communications!! Congrats @rina_chemistry, Hajime Ito and the team! Great collaboration with Prof. Maeda Satoshi Maeda, Prof. Jiang and Prof. Takaya! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Thanks Dr. Wang for his encouragement and support for a long term. I really like systematic study when I read literature, and hope you like our fused-ring cyclooctenes system as well.😀

Light-powered Dissipative Assembly of Diazocine Coordination Cages: continuous irradiation required to keep host property alive! #JustAccepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. with Haeri Lee, Jacopo Tessarolo and Rainer Herges Universität Kiel CAU 🎓 now OA online European Research Council (ERC) DFG public | @[email protected] doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1…

The Leibfarth Research & Alexanian Lab from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are excited to share our most recent work out today in Science Magazine! We demonstrate a versatile C–H functionalization method that diversifies the structure & properties of small molecules & polymers science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Reversing RAFT Polymerization: Monomer Generation Via a Catalyst-Free Depolymerization Approach ETH Zurich ETH Department of Materials ETH Polymeric Materials Athina Anastasaki Science & Medicine at ANU ANU Media European Research Council (ERC) Association of ERC Grantees Horizon Europe 🇪🇺 #Depolymerization #RAFT #Polymerization pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

The University of Akron is the top university in the world for Polymer Science and Plastics Engineering, according to EduRank. 🌎 We thank our faculty and students for building us to this prestigious title - the future is even brighter! 👏 Read more here: ow.ly/Z1oM50I7p0X

We have a postdoc position open on soft materials and sustainable polymers. Synthetic skill is highly valued, and the candidate is also expected to have a passion for mentoring students. Please help RT.

Check out our recent work on mechanically activated depolymerization now published in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/c3rBa. This work nicely connects the two ongoing directions in our lab: mechanochemically controlled polymer degradation and metathesis-based depolymerization.

Today we report Nature Chemistry a strategy for generating native polysaccharides from living polymerization of anhydrosugars - depolymerization is also possible - just up the temperature! #Glycotime #Polymer funded by Beckman Foundation nature.com/articles/s4155… rdcu.be/daTgg

Mechanochemical Degradation and Recycling of Synthetic Polymers (Junpeng Wang and co-workers) The University of Akron #AngewandteReview #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Excited to share our Minireview on mechanochemical degradation and recycling of synthetic polymers, including both commercial polymers and newly designed ones, Junfeng Zhou 周俊峰, Tze-Gang, and I had fun putting it together.

Congrats, Dr. Tze-Gang Hsu! It's a pleasure working with you on those exciting projects.

Non-Symmetrical Tetrafluoroalkadienes Synthesized by ROCM of 3,3,4,4-Tetrafluorocyclobutene (Rybackova et al.) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…

We are thrilled to share a new HF-free technology that converts fluorspar to fluorochemicals. Enormous congratulations to the amazing team of chemists who made this recurring dream a reality! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Cal Patel Science Magazine Oxford Chemistry FluoRok

Congratulations to Dr. Devavrat Sathe Devavrat Sathe, the second PhD from the group! Still remember how excited we were when we found those ROMP polymers depolymerized as predicted! Your intellectual maturity, versatile skill set, and open mind will serve you well.

Excited to share our work on mechanically triggered degradable polymers is out Nature Chemistry. A big thank you to @Bruns_Lab Christoph Weder and Michael Mayer for their great support during this work AMI NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials Uni Fribourg nature.com/articles/s4155…

In this massive team effort published in Chemical Reviews, we discuss how olefin metathesis has been applied to the development of new chemically recyclable polymers and the deconstruction of commercial polymers: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…. A great learning experience for us!

Please check out latest work Nature Communications Biorenewable and chemically recyclable polyolefin thermoplastic elastomers. nature.com/articles/s4146…. Truly grateful for the constructive suggestions and comments from Prof. Junfeng Zhou 周俊峰 and Prof. SunResearchGroup

Glad to share our recent research in Macromolecules. Thanks ACS Publications for supporting this work via #OpenAccess Functional Group Transformation Approach to Chemically Recyclable Polymers from Ultra-Low to Moderate Strain Monomers | Macromolecules pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

🚨 A single-atom swap could change the game in drug discovery! 🧪💥 We have just unveiled a CO-to-S atom swap method that turns ketones into sulfur-containing frameworks in complex, bioactive molecules in just two steps. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Congratulations to Zining.