Final Activity Report Summary - POLENZCO2 (Enzymatic polymerisation in supercritical carbon dioxide)
Perhaps more importantly though, we have shown that scCO2 offers far more than just an environmentally-friendly solvent alternative, but rather that many synthetic processes work better in this solvent. Indeed, the simultaneous copolymerisation involving enzymatic catalysis presented here has, up till now, only worked successfully in scCO2. We believe that these strategies offer new opportunities in the design and application of functional polymeric materials.