They established a flexible and practical approach to make a variety of polymers from chemicals derived from plant cellulose; most importantly, these polymers can be fully recycled. Cellulose is a long-chain polysaccharide polymer, indicating that it is made up of several sugar groups, particularly glucose, linked together by chemical bonds.Breakthrough in Polymer SynthesisTo make their new polymers, the Hokkaido group used 2 commercially offered little particles, levoglucosenone (LGO) and dihydrolevoglucosenone (Cyrene), which are made from cellulose. Credit: Feng LiLi adds that the most significant surprise during the research study was the high openness of the polymer movies they made, which may be vital for the kind of specialist applications that these polymers appear most fit for.
