Matthias Reumann, Blake G. Fitch, et al.
EMBC 2009
Chemical recycling of plastic waste represents a greener alternative to landfill and incineration, and potentially offers a solution to the environmental consequences of increased plastic waste. Most plastics that are widely used today are designed for durability, hence currently available depolymerisation methods typically require harsh conditions and when applied to blended and mixed plastic feeds generate a mixture of products. Herein, we demonstrate that the energetic differences for the glycolysis of BPA-PC and PET in the presence of a protic ionic salt TBD catalyst enables the selective and sequential depolymerisation of these two commonly employed polymers. Employing the same procedure, functionalised cyclic carbonates can be obtained from both mixed plastic wastes and industrial polymer blend. This methodology demonstrates that the concept of catalytic depolymerisation offers great potential for selective polymer recycling and also presents plastic waste as a “greener” alternative feedstock for the synthesis of high added value molecules.
Matthias Reumann, Blake G. Fitch, et al.
EMBC 2009
Carlos F. G. C. Geraldes, Rodney D. Brown, et al.
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
Shengping Liu, Baoyao Zhou, et al.
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium
John M. Prager, Jennifer J. Liang, et al.
AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science 2017