A new article by Dr. Pitchaimari Gnanasekar, Dr. Jing Chen, Shrestha Roy Goswami, Dr. Heyu Chen, and Prof. Ning Yan has been published in ChemSusChem.

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In this article, Dr. Heyu Chen, Dr. Prashant Chauhan, and Prof. Ning Yan reported a novel strategy to effectively utilize the bark waste stream as a promising starting material to synthesize environmental-friendly polyurethanes without using hazardous isocyanate/phosgene. Full details can be found here as the Accepted Manuscript.

“Barking” up the right tree: biorefinery from waste stream to cyclic carbonate with immobilization of CO₂ for non-isocyanate polyurethanes, Green Chemistry, 2020, DOI: 10.1039/D0GC02285C.