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January 1, 2026Green ChemistryOpen Access

Upcycling waste PET into functional multiblock copolymers through controlled macromolecular design

Shelby Watson-Sanders Alison Biery Karina Guerrero Nicholas J. Galan Tomonori Saito Brian K. Long Mark Dadmun

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Key Points

The aim is to explore the conversion of post-consumer PET into functional multiblock copolymers through controlled design.
Depolymerization of post-consumer PET to obtain telechelic oligomers.
Synthesis of multiblock copolymers from the resulting oligomers.
Successful conversion of PET leads to the creation of novel multiblock copolymers with potential applications.

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Implication

Demonstrates the upcycling of post-consumer PET into novel copolymers, highlighting environmental benefits.

Abstract

Depolymerization of post-consumer PET yields telechelic oligomers that enable upcycling into novel multiblock copolymers.

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Watson-Sanders et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1bd0fa5783ba022b6fcb4d https://doi.org/10.1039/d6gc01907b

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