{"title":"Significant Trends in Rubber Research Driven by Environment, Resource, and Sustainability","authors":"Ganggang Zhang, Baochun Guo, Liqun Zhang","doi":"10.1021/acs.macromol.5c00494","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Rubber is a strategic material with high elasticity that has experienced hundreds of years of application history and hundreds of years of synthetic rubber history. Since the 21st century, human beings are increasingly concerned about the environment and resources, and the sustainable development and performance of rubber products have a profound impact on the development of these fields. This perspective focuses on the impact of biobased rubbers, biobased fillers, biobased/less toxic additives, and rubber cycling on the resource, environment, and sustainability of the rubber industry. The authors emphasize the challenges and development routes for the sustainable development of the rubber industry not only from the perspective of biobased sources for raw materials but also from the perspective of green processing and material recycling, and especially expound the key scientific and technical issues related to these fields. The authors hope that this perspective will provide guidance for the sustainable development of the world rubber industry and the research and development of cutting-edge elastomers.","PeriodicalId":51,"journal":{"name":"Macromolecules","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Macromolecules","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.5c00494","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"POLYMER SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Rubber is a strategic material with high elasticity that has experienced hundreds of years of application history and hundreds of years of synthetic rubber history. Since the 21st century, human beings are increasingly concerned about the environment and resources, and the sustainable development and performance of rubber products have a profound impact on the development of these fields. This perspective focuses on the impact of biobased rubbers, biobased fillers, biobased/less toxic additives, and rubber cycling on the resource, environment, and sustainability of the rubber industry. The authors emphasize the challenges and development routes for the sustainable development of the rubber industry not only from the perspective of biobased sources for raw materials but also from the perspective of green processing and material recycling, and especially expound the key scientific and technical issues related to these fields. The authors hope that this perspective will provide guidance for the sustainable development of the world rubber industry and the research and development of cutting-edge elastomers.
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Macromolecules publishes original, fundamental, and impactful research on all aspects of polymer science. Topics of interest include synthesis (e.g., controlled polymerizations, polymerization catalysis, post polymerization modification, new monomer structures and polymer architectures, and polymerization mechanisms/kinetics analysis); phase behavior, thermodynamics, dynamic, and ordering/disordering phenomena (e.g., self-assembly, gelation, crystallization, solution/melt/solid-state characteristics); structure and properties (e.g., mechanical and rheological properties, surface/interfacial characteristics, electronic and transport properties); new state of the art characterization (e.g., spectroscopy, scattering, microscopy, rheology), simulation (e.g., Monte Carlo, molecular dynamics, multi-scale/coarse-grained modeling), and theoretical methods. Renewable/sustainable polymers, polymer networks, responsive polymers, electro-, magneto- and opto-active macromolecules, inorganic polymers, charge-transporting polymers (ion-containing, semiconducting, and conducting), nanostructured polymers, and polymer composites are also of interest. Typical papers published in Macromolecules showcase important and innovative concepts, experimental methods/observations, and theoretical/computational approaches that demonstrate a fundamental advance in the understanding of polymers.