Plastics that are developed from renewable resources and can be recycled are highly environmentally desirable alternatives to current petroleum-based non-degradable polymers. Now, an effective and robust industrially relevant strategy towards high-performance biomass-derived degradable poly(γ-thiobutyrolactone)s has been developed.
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Guillaume, S.M. Sustainable and degradable plastics. Nat. Chem. 14, 245–246 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-022-00901-8
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