Diversification of polymer waste recycling is one of the solutions to improve the current
environmental scenario. Upcycling is a promising strategy for converting polymer waste into …

Aromatic compounds are platform chemicals used in the manufacture of commodity
polymers. The development of bio-based aromatic compounds is expected to reduce the …

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is considered a renewable one-carbon building block for chemical
synthesis owing to its abundance, low toxicity, nonflammability, and availability. The …

Plastics are indispensable materials in modern society; however, their extensive use has
contributed to the depletion of finite natural resources and caused severe environmental …

With the development of our society, plastic pollution is becoming more and more prominent.
It is attractive and challenging to recycle plastic wastes to prepare valuable products at low …

Transition from the traditional linear economy to a circular economy is the key to reducing
the amount of plastic that ends up in the environment and recovering value from the waste …

Using carbon dioxide (CO2) to make recyclable thermoplastics could reduce greenhouse
gas emissions associated with polymer manufacturing. CO2/cyclic epoxide ring-opening …

Polymeric foams are widely used in many industrial applications due to their light weight and
superior thermal, mechanical, and optical properties. Currently, increasing research efforts is …

A pyridine diimine cobalt catalyst series is used for the cyclodepolymerization (CDP) of
several different polyesters and polycarbonates. In the presence of isopropanol, a wide …

This paper reports for the first time the study of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) of
amorphous Brazilian bisphenol-A polycarbonate (Durolon) exposed to beta radiation. The …