2025 - Present

Recyclable Li-Metal Battery Electrolytes via In Situ Cyclic Carbonate Polymerization

H. Gao, V. Riesgo-Gonzalez, J. R. Runge, K. Yiamsawat, D. Spencer-Jolly, T. M. McGuire, G. J. Rees, X. Gao, B. Hu, S. Zhang, L. Wang, P. G. Bruce, G. L. Gregory, C. K. Williams, Adv. Sci. 2025, e04206

High-Performance Recyclable Polyester Elastomers Through Transient Strain-Stiffening

C. Gao, K. C. Poon, M. Concilio, T. Zinn, G. L. Gregory, C. K. Williams, Adv. Mater. 2025, 2416674

Using Differential Scanning Calorimetry to Accelerate Polymerization Catalysis: A Toolkit for Miniaturized and Automated Kinetics Measurements

T. M. McGuire, D. Ning, C. K. Williams, ACS Catal. 2025, 15, 6760–6771

Controlled Catalysis Delivering High Molecular Weight Polyesters as Recyclable Alternatives to Polystyrenes

N. Jannsen, K. C. Poon, A. C. Craze, C. Gao, C. K. Williams, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, e202505070

From Polymers to Rings and Back Again: Chemical Recycling of Polyesters to Macrolactones

M. L. Smith, T. M. McGuire, R. W.F. Kerr, and C. K. Williams, Angew. Chem. Int. 2025, 10.1002/anie.202423478

Hot Paper

Precise Carboxylic Acid-Functionalized Polyesters in Reprocessable Vitrimers

M. Concilio, G. S. Sulley, F. Vidal, S. Brown, and C. K. Williams, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 10.1021/jacs.4c14032.

Structure-Activity Relationships for s-Block Metal/Co(III) Heterodinuclear Catalysts in Cyclohexene Oxide Ring-Opening Copolymerizations

F. Butler, F. Fiorentini, K. H. S. Eisenhardt, and C. K. Williams, Angew. Chem. Int. 2025, 10.1002/anie.202422497