Project

Cut-and-paste chemistry: from circular plastics to immunotherapeutics

Code

01G00721

Duration

01 January 2021 → 31 December 2025

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor-spokesperson

Filip Du Prez

Research disciplines

Natural sciences
- Synthesis of materials
- Organic chemical synthesis
Medical and health sciences
- Pharmaceutical technology
Engineering and technology
- Polymer recycling

Keywords

Dynamic covalent chemistry On-demand debonding Tag and release strategies Polymer recycling Immunotherapies Bio-orthogonal chemistry

Project description

Chemistry enables innovation by building new useful molecules. This requires the controlled formation of new bonds. A more challenging task is the cleavage of specific bonds within complex (macro)molecules. In this concerted research action, new platform chemistries for controlled, on-demand bonding and debonding applications will be explored and developed for their
potential in rational material design and therapeutics.