Charlotte Williams

5 days ago | pubs.acs.org | Thomas McGuire |David Ning |Antoine Buchard |Charlotte Williams

IntroductionClick to copy section linkSection link copied!Improving polymer sustainability is a very important scientific challenge with recent studies highlighting the combined threats to us all of mismanaged plastic wastes and the ever-growing carbon dioxide emissions across polymer lifecycles.

5 days ago | dx.doi.org | Thomas McGuire |David Ning |Antoine Buchard |Charlotte Williams

IntroductionClick to copy section linkSection link copied!Improving polymer sustainability is a very important scientific challenge with recent studies highlighting the combined threats to us all of mismanaged plastic wastes and the ever-growing carbon dioxide emissions across polymer lifecycles.

2 months ago | pubs.acs.org | Thomas McGuire |David Ning |Charlotte Williams |Jacob S. A

IntroductionClick to copy section linkSection link copied!All advances and large-scale applications of catalysts require accurate, reproducible and efficient methods to quantify reaction rates and kinetic and thermodynamic parameters. (1) Homogeneous cyclic monomer ring-opening polymerization (ROP) catalysis is a key technology to produce oxygenated polymers, which are viewed as leading, sustainable alternatives to current commodity hydrocarbon plastics, elastomers, and materials.

Jan 6, 2025 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Frederica Butler |Francesca Fiorentini |Charlotte Williams

Introduction Heterobimetallic or mixed metal catalysts can show outstanding activity, selectivity and control in a range of different polymerizations, including using olefins, polar substituted alkenes, cyclic esters, epoxides, cyclic anhydrides and carbon dioxide (CO2).1 In these cases, and more generally in catalysis, intermetallic cooperativity or synergy is frequently invoked but tends to be less effectively rationalized or predicted.1b, 2 Recent discoveries of high-performance...

Aug 9, 2024 | pubs.acs.org | Francesca Fiorentini |Arron C. Deacy |Charlotte Williams |Ryan W. F

IntroductionClick to copy section linkSection link copied!Heterodinuclear synergy is an attractive means to increase catalytic performance across a range of reactions. (1−5) In polymerization catalysis, the use of inexpensive and abundant s-block metals as replacements for heavier transition metals is a priority in the design of synergic heterodinuclear catalysts.