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Overview

Haritz Sardon is affiliated with the University of the Basque Country in Spain and specializes in materials science, with a focus on polymers and plastics. Their work spans a variety of subfields including biomaterials, organic chemistry, process chemistry and technology, and biomedical engineering.

The research topics covered by Sardon's publications include biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis, polymer composites and self-healing materials, advanced polymer synthesis and characterization, microplastics and plastic pollution, additive manufacturing and 3D printing technologies, as well as polymer crystallization and properties.

Frequent publication venues for Sardon's research include Polymer Chemistry, Macromolecules, Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Applied Polymer Materials, and Polymers.

Among the recent papers authored by Sardon or co-authored with others are:

  • Critical advances and future opportunities in upcycling commodity polymers, 2022, Nature
  • Healable and self-healing polyurethanes using dynamic chemistry, 2021, Progress in Polymer Science
  • Selective Chemical Upcycling of Mixed Plastics Guided by a Thermally Stable Organocatalyst, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Trends in non-isocyanate polyurethane (NIPU) development, 2021, Chemical Communications
  • Sustainable Materials and Chemical Processes for Additive Manufacturing, 2020, Chemistry of Materials

Sardon frequently collaborates with other researchers, with frequent co-authors including Xabier Lopez de Pariza, Coralie Jehanno, Marta Ximenis, Alejandro J. Müller, and David Mecerreyes.

Best Publications

  • Critical advances and future opportunities in upcycling commodity polymers

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  • Plastics recycling with a difference.

    Haritz Sardon;Andrew P. Dove

  • Ionic Liquids and Cellulose: Dissolution, Chemical Modification and Preparation of New Cellulosic Materials

    Mehmet Isik;Haritz Sardon;David Mecerreyes

  • Packaging materials with desired mechanical and barrier properties and full chemical recyclability

    Ainara Sangroniz;Ainara Sangroniz;Jian-Bo Zhu;Xiaoyan Tang;Agustin Etxeberria

  • Update and challenges in organo-mediated polymerization reactions

    Winnie Nzahou Ottou;Haritz Sardon;David Mecerreyes;Joan Vignolle

  • Synthesis of Polyurethanes Using Organocatalysis: A Perspective

    Haritz Sardon;Ana Pascual;David Mecerreyes;David Mecerreyes;Daniel Taton

  • Organocatalysis for depolymerisation

    Coralie Jehanno;Coralie Jehanno;Coralie Jehanno;Maria M. Pérez-Madrigal;Jeremy Demarteau;Haritz Sardon

  • Antimicrobial hydrogels: a new weapon in the arsenal against multidrug-resistant infections.

    Victor W.L. Ng;Julian M.W. Chan;Haritz Sardon;Haritz Sardon;Robert J. Ono

  • Healable and self-healing polyurethanes using dynamic chemistry

    Robert H. Aguirresarobe;Sil Nevejans;Bernd Reck;Lourdes Irusta

  • Tailor-made polymer electrolytes based upon ionic liquids and their application in all-plastic electrochromic devices

    Rebeca Marcilla;Francisco Alcaide;Haritz Sardon;Jose A. Pomposo

  • Organocatalysed depolymerisation of PET in a fully sustainable cycle using thermally stable protic ionic salt

    Coralie Jehanno;Coralie Jehanno;Irma Flores;Andrew P. Dove;Alejandro J. Müller;Alejandro J. Müller

  • Current trends in redox polymers for energy and medicine

    Nerea Casado;Guiomar Hernández;Haritz Sardon;David Mecerreyes;David Mecerreyes

  • Selective Chemical Upcycling of Mixed Plastics Guided by a Thermally Stable Organocatalyst

    Coralie Jehanno;Jeremy Demarteau;Daniele Mantione;Maria C. Arno

  • Recent Advances and Challenges in the Design of Organic Photoacid and Photobase Generators for Polymerizations.

    Nicolas Zivic;Paula Kishi Kuroishi;Frédéric Dumur;Didier Gigmes

  • Trends in non-isocyanate polyurethane (NIPU) development.

    Alvaro Gomez-Lopez;Fermin Elizalde;Iñigo Calvo;Haritz Sardon

  • From Lab to Market: Current Strategies for the Production of Biobased Polyols

    Haritz Sardon;David Mecerreyes;David Mecerreyes;Andere Basterretxea;Luc Avérous

  • Sustainable Materials and Chemical Processes for Additive Manufacturing

    Eva Sanchez-Rexach;Eva Sanchez-Rexach;Trevor G. Johnston;Coralie Jehanno;Haritz Sardon

  • Synthesis of room temperature self-curable waterborne hybrid polyurethanes functionalized with (3-aminopropyl)triethoxysilane (APTES)

    Haritz Sardon;Haritz Sardon;Lourdes Irusta;Maria José Fernandez-Berridi;Muriel Lansalot

  • Poly(hydroxyurethane) adhesives and coatings: state-of-the-art and future directions

    Alvaro Gomez-Lopez;Satyannarayana Panchireddy;Bruno Grignard;Inigo Calvo

  • Antibacterial silk fibroin/nanohydroxyapatite hydrogels with silver and gold nanoparticles for bone regeneration.

    Marta Ribeiro;Marta Ribeiro;Maria P. Ferraz;Fernando J. Monteiro;Fernando J. Monteiro;Maria H. Fernandes

  • Aromatic diselenide crosslinkers to enhance the reprocessability and self-healing of polyurethane thermosets

    Xiaowei An;Robert H. Aguirresarobe;Lourdes Irusta;Fernando Ruipérez

  • Synthesis of isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI) based waterborne polyurethanes: Comparison between zirconium and tin catalysts in the polymerization process

    H. Sardon;L. Irusta;M.J. Fernández-Berridi

Frequent Co-Authors

David Mecerreyes
David Mecerreyes University of the Basque Country
James L. Hedrick
James L. Hedrick IBM (United States)
Alejandro J. Müller
Alejandro J. Müller University of the Basque Country
Yi Yan Yang
Yi Yan Yang Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Andrew P. Dove
Andrew P. Dove University of Birmingham
Daniel Taton
Daniel Taton University of Bordeaux
Maria Forsyth
Maria Forsyth Deakin University
Christophe Detrembleur
Christophe Detrembleur University of Liège
Alshakim Nelson
Alshakim Nelson University of Washington
Sonia Zulfiqar
Sonia Zulfiqar Lander University

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