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The steps to sustainability

Nature Chemistry volume 14, pages 243–244 (2022)Cite this article

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Miao Hong, based at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, tells Nature Chemistry about her work in sustainable polymer design and her thoughts about the future of this field.

You are an author of an Article in this issue that describes a strategy to create sustainable polymers through the polymerization of biomass-derived monomers under industrially relevant conditions. Can you give us a little background to this problem and explain why it is an important issue to solve?

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Ashe, K. The steps to sustainability. Nat. Chem. 14, 243–244 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-022-00903-6

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