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SUMMARY:Enhancing Polymer Sustainability via Stereo- and Sequence-Controll
 ed Catalysis
DTSTART:20260715T140000
DTEND:20260715T160000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Jerome R Robison\, Brown University\, Providence (USA)\n
 Polymer sustainability has quickly become a global environmental concern\,
  where an estimated 4.9 GTons of polymer waste currently exist in the envi
 ronment.  Central to addressing this challenge is the generation of polym
 ers with robust materials properties that also embed or encode end-of-use\
 ; however\, access to such high-performance materials have been limited by
  selective and scalable catalytic methods. In this talk\, I will share som
 e of our group's recent advances in designing highly active and selective 
 catalysts for the (de)polymerization of oxygenated (co)polymers through ri
 ng-opening polymerization. I will share how controlling the structure and 
 dynamics of rare-earth\, group II\, and group XII compounds can enable the
  design of novel catalytic processes capable of exquisite control of polym
 er stereochemistry\, sequence\, and molecular weight to access high-perfor
 mance\, biodegradable materials.
LOCATION:BCH 2218 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BCH%202218
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