US Patent Issued to The University of Akron on May 19 for "Fused ring monomers providing for chemically recyclable polymers" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,670, issued on May 19, was assigned to The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio).

"Fused ring monomers providing for chemically recyclable polymers" was invented by Junpeng Wang (Peninsula, Ohio) and Devavrat Sathe (Akron, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monomer capable forming a polymer through ring-opening metathesis polymerization and capable of depolymerization thereafter through ring-closing metathesis, wherein the monomer comprises a cycloalkene having a fused ring attached thereto which decreases the ring strain energy to 5.3 kcal/mol or lower as compared to the same cycloalkene without a fused ring having a ring strain energ...