Our projects

The fate of the ever increasing amount of plastic waste in our planet is a major global concern. In the Gonsales Lab we are excited to work towards ways of addressing it, such as through chemical recycling and upcycling, as well as through synthesis of new degradable polymers.

Through the use of organometallic chemistry and mechanistic investigations, we aim to explore highly active catalysts and develop efficient systems to break down polymers back into their monomeric form or into added-value compounds.

Targeting mainly the use of cheap metal sources, we will develop catalysts able to copolymerize polar and non-polar monomers to yield polymers with in-chain polar units towards more degradable and functional materials.

Learn more at our lab homepage.