Direct metathesis deconstruction to recycle poly(dicyclopentadiene) composites
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Authors
- Kwangwook Ko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2766-2229)
- Zachariah A. Page (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-5422)
- Lingyang Zhu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6657-271X)
- Samuel Leguizamon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3395-6562)
- Benjamin A. Suslick (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6499-3625)
- Terry Price (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0187-5640)
- Leah Appelhans (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-9173)
- Nancy R. Sottos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5818-520X)
- Meghan T. Kiker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0620-2079)
- Hayden E. Fowler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4678-9807)
- Jeremiah A. Johnson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9157-6491)
- Evan Sproul (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4555-8943)
- Yan Xia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5298-748X)
- Jeffrey S. Moore (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5841-6269)
- Keldy S. Mason (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2481-4570)
- Edgar B. Mejia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9719-884X)
- Franz A. Stolpen
- Benjamin Juba (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6041-4527)
- Zhenchuang Xu
Institutions
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Urbana University (US)
- Savannah River National Laboratory (US)
- Sandia National Laboratories (US)
- Arizona State University (US)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Science Advances
- Published
- 2026-09-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aef4204
- Primary Topic
- Photopolymerization techniques and applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation