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Critical advances and future opportunities in upcycling commodity polymers

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This article is published in Visual education.The article was published on 2022-03-01. It has received 202 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Medicine & Commodity chemicals.

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Mixed plastics waste valorization through tandem chemical oxidation and biological funneling

TL;DR: This work shows that metal-catalyzed autoxidation depolymerizes comingled polymers into a mixture of oxygenated small molecules that are advantaged substrates for biological conversion, and engineer a robust soil bacterium to funnel these oxygenated compounds into a single exemplary chemical product.
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Shape-controlled fabrication of MnO/C hybrid nanoparticle from waste polyester for solar evaporation and thermoelectricity generation

TL;DR: In this paper , a flexible MnO/C nanoparticle-based solar evaporator is constructed to realize simultaneously interfacial solar evaporation and thermoelectricity generation, which can be easily tailored from cube to sphere, octahedron or polyhedron.
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Waste-treating-waste: Upcycling discarded polyester into metal-organic framework nanorod for synergistic interfacial solar evaporation and sulfate-based advanced oxidation process

TL;DR: In this paper , a facile solvothermal method of waste poly(ethylene terephthalate) bottles for the massive production of Co-MOF nanorod and construct a dual-functional CoMOF/carbon nanotube (CNT) solar evaporator integrated with advanced oxidation process for simultaneous wastewater purification and freshwater production.
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In-situ formation of Ag2O in metal-organic framework for light-driven upcycling of microplastics coupled with hydrogen production

TL;DR: In this article , a light-driven photocatalytic upcycling of microplastics using heterojunction photocatalyst was proposed, where a novel synthesis method was developed through in-situ conversion of unstable metal sites on bimetallic metal-organic frameworks (MOF), resulting in nanometer-sized particles with semiconductor properties.
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A Bacterium That Degrades and Assimilates Poly(ethylene Terephthalate)

TL;DR: In this paper, a new bacterium, Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6, was found to be able to use PET as its major energy and carbon source, producing two enzymes capable of hydrolyzing PET and the reaction intermediate, mono(2-hydroxyethyl) terephthalic acid.
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Mechanical and chemical recycling of solid plastic waste.

TL;DR: This review presents a comprehensive description of the current pathways for recycling of polymers, via both mechanical and chemical recycling, and discusses the main challenges and some potential remedies to these recycling strategies, thus providing an academic angle as well as an applied one.

A bacterium that degrades and assimilates poly (ethylene terephthalate) and its enzymes involved in the degradation

Kohei Oda
TL;DR: A novel bacterium is isolated that is able to use PET as its major energy and carbon source and produces two enzymes capable of hydrolyzing PET and the reaction intermediate, mono(2-hydroxyethyl) terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol.