Sustainable Polymers Square Table
Sustainable Polymers Square Table
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可持续聚合物方桌
DOI：
10.1021/acs.macromol.1c01751
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发表时间：
2021
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影响因子：
5.5
通讯作者：
Hillmyer, Marc A.
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作者：
de Pablo, Juan;Hillmyer, Marc A.
我们最近有幸领导了一个由国家科学基金会材料研究部支持的关于可持续聚合物的“方桌”活动。四方桌提供了一种结构和自我促进的互动，以帮助弥合与特定主题的进展相关的不同利益相关者之间的差距-在这种情况下是行业、联邦机构和学术界。目标包括为可持续聚合物竞技场中的重要问题制定拟议的解决方案，例如：（1）什么是关键的基础和应用研究追求，当一起解决时，可以提高在推动基础研究和转化工作方面产生重大影响的可能性？(2)是什么阻止了工业界、学术界和联邦机构之间的大规模协调努力？(3)在数据资源、物理基础设施和/或劳动力培训方面，需要什么来帮助减少这些障碍？(4)如何以协作的方式共享数据和高级建模方法，从而在转化意义上加速数据驱动的科学和工程？(5)需要建立何种伙伴关系来营造有利于实现更可持续未来的环境？该方桌的产品是一份综合报告，可在ChemRxiv上免费获取（DOI：10.33774/chemrxiv-2021-1xjbc）。正如报告中所阐述的那样，我们相信，可持续聚合物（构成塑料的分子）的发现、开发和部署对地球仪及其居民的健康至关重要。正如我们在报告中所指出的那样，迫切需要改变来解决我们紧迫的塑料困境：现代社会依赖于这些卓越的聚合物材料，并不断期望提高性能和功能，但遭受相关污染的可怕后果，这些污染以多种形式存在，包括环境中的塑料废物积累和与塑料生产相关的温室气体排放。鉴于塑料在现代社会中的优势，以及人们对与其处置相关的不断积累的废物的明确认识，缺乏有效的回收或升级循环技术和基础设施，以及在环境中的持久性，显然需要新的方法。为了帮助实现这一壮举，NSF赞助的这个四方桌汇集了来自不同背景的50多名专家，以开发广泛，综合和未来的想法和战略，以新的创新方式解决这一困境。报告总结了我们的集体想法和拟议的解决办法。具体来说，我们（i）定义了新的合作研究方法和研究伙伴关系模式，通过结合理论，
We recently had the pleasure to lead a “Square Table” event on Sustainable Polymers supported by the Division of Materials Research at the National Science Foundation. Square Tables provide a structure and self-facilitated interactions to help bridge gaps between different stakeholders associated with progress on a particular topic-in this case industry, federal agencies, and academia. Objectives included developing proposed solutions to important questions in the sustainable polymer arena such as:(1) What are the critical basic and applied research pursuits that, when addressed together, could improve the possibility for significant impact in terms of moving fundamental research thrusts and translational efforts?(2) What prevents large-scale, coordinated efforts among industry, academia, and federal agencies?(3) What is needed to help reduce these barriers in terms of data resources, physical infrastructure, and/or workforce training?(4) How can data and advanced modeling approaches be shared in a collaborative way that would allow data-driven science and engineering to be accelerated in a translational sense?(5) What partnerships are needed to foster an environment conducive to realizing a more sustainable future? The product of this Square Table was a comprehensive report that is freely available on ChemRxiv (DOI: 10.33774/chemrxiv-2021-1xjbc).As articulated in the report, we are convinced that the discovery, development, and deployment of sustainable polymers, the molecules that make up plastics, are critical to the health of the globe and its inhabitants. As we posit in the report, there is an urgent need for change to solve our pressing plastics predicament: modern society depends on these remarkable polymeric materials-and continually expects increased performance and functionality, but suffers dire consequences from the associated pollution, which takes multiple forms that include accumulation of plastic waste in the environment and greenhouse gas emissions associated with plastic production. Given the current advantages of plastics in modern society and the clear recognition of the everaccumulating waste associated with their disposal, lack of efficient recycling or upcycling technologies and infrastructure, and persistence in the environment, it is clear that new approaches are needed. To help accomplish this feat, this NSF-sponsored Square Table brought together a diverse cohort of more than 50 experts from diverse backgrounds to develop broad-ranging, integrated, and futuristic ideas and strategies that address this dilemma in new and innovative ways. The report summarizes our collective ideas and proposed solutions. Specifically, we (i) defined new collaborative research approaches and research partnership models to accelerate discovery in polymers research by combining theory,