It's alive! James Young and Sofia Goodrich give life to postconsumer PMMA and PαMS by mechanochemically installing phthalimide esters onto the chains that can subsequently be used to trigger bulk depolymerization! Brent Sumerlin UF Chemistry Angewandte Chemie onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

New paper out in Chemical Science! We used our modified polymer initiator to synthesize cyclic bottle brush polymers via graft-through REMP and tested their mechanical properties upon cross linking! Congrats Matthew Elardo, adelaide and Ana Paula ! doi.org/10.1039/D4SC06…

Excited to present the first paper from the Park group, published today in Science Magazine! We found a user-friendly, mild reaction conditions for exchanging an oxygen in heterocycles with nitrogen groups. Congrats Donghyeon, Jaehyun, and the team! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

New paper out with JG Kim Group : Influence of Crystallinity on the Mechanochemical Degradation of Poly(lactide) with Ball-Mill Grinding | Macromolecules pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Check out our new review paper in Progress in Polymer Science. Hopefully the polymer BMG community will find this useful. Progress Toward Sustainable Polymer Technologies with Ball-Mill Grinding sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to share our work (Eunsung Lee) in collaboration with Prof. Tae-Lim Choi's group! Air-stable ruthenium catalysts with tethered CAAC ligands for REMP. A heartfelt thank you to the reviewers and editor for their invaluable advice! doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4…

Air & Thermally Stable Cyclic (Alkyl)(amino)carbene Ru Complexes: Efficient Ring Expansion Metathesis Polymerization | JACS Seoul National University @postech2020 ETH Zurich ETH Department of Materials Eunsung Lee - New Ru catalysts with tethered carbenes -pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Nature research paper: Degradable thermosets via orthogonal polymerizations of a single monomer go.nature.com/40tLZyU

We've started our group Twitter!

We are so proud of Prof. Tae-Lim Choi who got a 2024 Arthur K. Doolittle award at #ACSSpring2025! Congrats🎉 Also, happy to see our alumni Prof. In-Hwan Lee and Prof. Hyunseok Kim😀

Check out TLClab's new article in J. Am. Chem. Soc.! Synthesis of degradable alternating copolymers from natural levoglucosenone and dienes. Congrats LIANQIAN, Hongsik Kim, and team! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

New paper out in J. Am. Chem. Soc.! In collab with Prof. Byoung Hoon Lee's group, we report a versatile & sustainable Pd/Ag dual-catalytic DArP at low temperatures, yielding low-defect D-A CPs. Big congrats to Hwangseok Kim, Hongsik Kim, Junmo Park, and teams! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Come and be my colleague! The Polymer Chemistry Group TLClab ETH Department of Materials ETH Zürich has few PhD openings in polymer synthesis! 🧪✨ Apply now 👉jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_… #PhD #PolymerChemistry #ETHZurich

🚨: New paper out! Just a few hours ago in J. Am. Chem. Soc., our postdoc Harrison Bergman introduces maleimide polyacetylene (mPA), a new n-type conjugated polymer with good conductivity & ambient stability, accessed via mild, base-mediated oxidation. Huge congrats! doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5…

🚨New paper out now in Chemical Science! Living metathesis polymerization of a levoglucosenone-derived enyne monomer — with tunable degradation rates & Tg via structural design. Big congrats to Eunsong Jung, Dr. Antonio Rizzo, and all co-authors!🎉 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC00…

Writing in #ACSMacroLett ACS Macro Journals, we report a fluorescence-emitting self-immolative polymer triggered by olefin metathesis catalysts. #NSFfunded Metathesis Depolymerization of a Fluorogenic Self-Immolative Polymer | ACS Macro Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

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!!! Out now in J. Am. Chem. Soc. !!!! We report flexible, saddle-shaped COT derivatives synthesized via a double-click reaction. They stack perfectly, bend elastically via adaptive curvature + alkoxy linkers, and guide light through cm-long crystals. Curious? 👉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Check out Abhi's (Abhishek V M) new paper on Unprecedented Structure Polyacetylene Synthesis by ROMP and Metallacycle Transfer- now published in ACIE! doi.org/10.1002/anie.2… Angewandte Chemie Wiley Chemistry

New paper out in Angewandte Chemie! We report 17 sugar-based alternating copolymers via photo-radical polymerization of LGO and vinyl ethers — renewable, degradable, strongly adhesive, and post-functionalizable. Big congrats to LIANQIAN and Hongsik Kim ! 🎉👏 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…