Mechanochemical assembly of polymer-cyclodextrin inclusion complexes via twin-screw extrusion for large-scale production and material reinforcement
Jingchen Shi, Xiaoqing Mou, Hao Tang, Luotong Gong, Han Wu, Alexander Wahrhaftig-Lewis, Benjamin Hansberg, Stephen Schrettl, Neil R. Champness, Stefan Guldin, Lixu Yang · 2026
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Description
Jingchen Shi and colleagues thread ring shaped sugar molecules onto plastic chains at factory scale, in a 2026 study. The rings, spun from starch, can lock along a chain like beads, and the threaded bundles make plastics tougher and easier to blend. Classic routes brew the bundles in water, which fails for water shy plastics and tiny batches.
Their route forces the mix through a twin screw extruder, the workhorse machine of plastic plants, with no solvent bath. Three plastics were threaded, including two common packaging types. The bundles then helped toughen blended plastics and let inert plastic surfaces gain new chemical handles after forming. The authors frame the solvent free, continuous run as the step that moves threaded plastics from lab curiosity toward plant floor use.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jingchen Shi, Xiaoqing Mou, Hao Tang, Luotong Gong, Han Wu, Alexander Wahrhaftig-Lewis, Benjamin Hansberg, Stephen Schrettl, Neil R. Champness, Stefan Guldin, Lixu Yang |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 17886 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |