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SUMMARY:Enhancing Polymer Sustainability via Stereo- and Sequence-Controll
 ed Catalysis
DTSTART:20260812T140000
DTEND:20260812T160000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Jerome R. Robinson\, Brown University\, Providence (USA
 )\nPolymer sustainability has quickly become a global environmental concer
 n\, where an estimated 4.9 GTons of polymer waste currently exist in the e
 nvironment.  Central to addressing this challenge is the generation of po
 lymers with robust materials properties that also embed or encode end-of-u
 se\; however\, access to such high-performance materials have been limited
  by selective and scalable catalytic methods. In this talk\, I will share 
 some of our group's recent advances in designing highly active and selecti
 ve catalysts for the (de)polymerization of oxygenated (co)polymers through
  ring-opening polymerization. I will share how controlling the structure a
 nd dynamics of rare-earth\, group II\, and group XII compounds can enable 
 the design of novel catalytic processes capable of exquisite control of po
 lymer stereochemistry\, sequence\, and molecular weight to access high-per
 formance\, biodegradable materials.
LOCATION:BCH 2218 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BCH%202218
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