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Visible-light-driven polymerization towards the green synthesis of plastics

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Environmentally benign and sustainable chemistry has the potential to address negative environmental impacts associated with the production and degradation of synthetic polymers. In particular, green synthesis of plastics could be achieved by the convergence of visible-light-driven photocatalysis and reversible-deactivation radical polymerization.

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This work was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2019R1I1A2A01059288).

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  2. Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), School of Chemical Engineering, and Australian Centre for NanoMedicine, School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Cyrille Boyer

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Lee, Y., Boyer, C. & Kwon, M.S. Visible-light-driven polymerization towards the green synthesis of plastics. Nat Rev Mater 7, 74–75 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-021-00409-6

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