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Frontispiece: Learning Nature: Recyclable Monomers and Polymers
Author(s) -
Lu XiaoBing,
Liu Ye,
Zhou Hui
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201884463
Subject(s) - depolymerization , monomer , sustainability , harmony (color) , polymer , polymerization , polymer science , chemistry , materials science , organic chemistry , nanotechnology , ecology , art , visual arts , biology
Recycling processes (such as carbon, oxygen, nitrogen cycles etc.) occur each day as an essential character for our sustainable planet. Managed ecosystems have maintained the natural environment in a state of great harmony for millions of years. Learning from nature to design chemically recyclable materials, which embody perfect recycling between polymers and the starting monomers through reversible polymerization/depolymerization process, provides a circular economy approach to sustainability. For more information, see the Minireview by X.‐B. Lu et al. on page 11255 ff.