Athina Anastasaki

Low-Temperature Aqueous RAFT Depolymerization

Abstract The chemical recycling of polymers in aqueous media is a critical yet overlooked challenge in mitigating plastic waste. This research gap severely limits the scope of depolymerization and restricts our fundamental mechanistic understanding. Herein, we report the first aq...

Lower-temperature bulk depolymerization of commercial polymethacrylates

Abstract Chemical recycling back to monomer represents an attractive methodology to tackle plastic waste. However, current reports focus on either thermally unstable ‘designer’ polymers or highly diluted solution depolymerizations. Here we report a simple, yet efficient, bulk mai...