Nature-inspired Circular Recycling for Polymers

Project Information

NaCRe

Grant agreement ID: 884114

DOI

10.3030/884114

Project closed

EC signature date 24 April 2020

Start date 1 January 2021

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 3 375 000,00

EU contribution

€ 3 375 000,00

Coordinated by

ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE
Switzerland

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

We will formulate a data management plan a brief plan to define what data sets the project will generate or process whether and how these data will be made accessible and how they will be curated stored and preserved The data management plan will also specify if certain datasets remain closed and the reasons for not giving access will be given

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

Long-term protein synthesis with PURE in a mesoscale dialysis system

Author(s): Laura Roset Julià, Laura Grasemann, Francesco Stellacci, Sebastian J. Maerkl
Published in: ACS Synthetic Biology, 2026, ISSN 2161-5063
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.09.611992

Recycling of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Kits

Author(s): Weina Liu; Yong Zhu; Francesco Stellacci
Published in: ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 2023, ISSN 2168-0485
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c07309

Reaction of β‐Ketoester and 1,3‐Diol to Access Chemically Recyclable and Mechanically Robust Poly(vinyl alcohol) Thermosets through Incorporation of β‐(1,3‐dioxane)ester

Author(s): Youwei Ma, Chihui Zheng, Gadi Slor, Melis Özkan, Oliviero Julien Gubelmann, Francesco Stellacci
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 63, 2024, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202410624

Reliable and robust robotic handling of microplates via computer vision and touch feedback

Author(s): Vincenzo Scamarcio, Jasper Tan, Francesco Stellacci, Josie Hughes
Published in: Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Issue 11, 2025, ISSN 2296-9144
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2024.1462717

Efficient Synthesis of Chemically Recyclable Polyamides via Substituent Effects‐Enabled Mechanistic Pathway

Author(s): Youwei Ma, Chihui Zheng, Davide Raphaël Bréas, Gadi Slor, Alain Phillipe Alexandre Molleyres, Qiyue Liao, Francesco Stellacci
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 64, 2025, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202516735

Robot‐Assisted Measurement of the Critical Micelle Concentration

Author(s): Vincenzo Scamarcio, Gadi Slor, Josie Hughes, Francesco Stellacci
Published in: Advanced Intelligent Systems, Issue 7, 2025, ISSN 2640-4567
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/aisy.202400386

Structure–Property Relationships of Elastomeric Vinylogous Urethane Thermosets and Their Application as Closed-Loop Recyclable Strain Sensors

Author(s): Youwei Ma, Francesco Stellacci
Published in: Macromolecules, Issue 58, 2025, Page(s) 1923-1934, ISSN 0024-9297
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.4c03256

Recycling of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Kits

Author(s): Weina Liu, Yong Zhu, Francesco Stellacci
Published in: ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Issue 11, 2023, Page(s) 5524-5536, ISSN 2168-0485
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c07309

Nature-Inspired Circular-Economy Recycling for Proteins: Proof of Concept

Author(s): Simone Giaveri, Adeline Marie Schmitt, Laura Roset Julià, Vincenzo Scamarcio, Anna Murello, Shiyu Cheng, Laure Menin, Daniel Ortiz, Luc Patiny, Sreenath Bolisetty, Raffaele Mezzenga, Sebastian Josef Maerkl, and Francesco Stellacci
Published in: Advanced Materials, 2021, ISSN 1521-4095
Publisher: WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202104581

Depolymerizable Elastomeric Polyolefin Thermosets with Great Extensibility

Author(s): Gadi Slor, Quy Ong Khac, Laura Roset Julià, Youwei Ma, Francesco Stellacci
Published in: ACS Materials Letters, Issue 8, 2026, Page(s) 145-151, ISSN 2639-4979
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.5c01249

Nature-inspired recycling of a protein mixture into a green fluorescent protein-based hydrogel

Author(s): Laura Roset Julià, Sebastian J. Maerkl, Francesco Stellacci
Published in: RSC Sustainability, Issue 2, 2025, Page(s) 2903-2909, ISSN 2753-8125
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
DOI: 10.1039/d4su00212a

DNA as a Recyclable Natural Polymer

Author(s): Weina Liu; Simone Giaveri; Daniel Ortiz; Francesco Stellacci
Published in: Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, ISSN 1616-3028
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5898022

Direct Monomer Recovery from Ring-Closing Depolymerization of Thermosets

Author(s): Chihui Zheng, Gadi Slor, Youwei Ma, Francesco Stellacci
Published in: ACS Macro Letters, Issue 13, 2024, Page(s) 1704-1710, ISSN 2161-1653
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.4c00665

Chemoselective Sequential Polymerization: An Approach Toward Mixed Plastic Waste Recycling

Author(s): Gadi Slor, Youwei Ma, Hyunwoo Park, Tae‐Lim Choi, Damien Guironnet, Francesco Stellacci
Published in: Advanced Functional Materials, 2025, ISSN 1616-301X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202518059

DNA as a Recyclable Natural Polymer

Author(s): Weina Liu, Simone Giaveri, Daniel Ortiz, Francesco Stellacci
Published in: Advanced Functional Materials, 2026, ISSN 1616-3028
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1101/2021.08.31.458327