Chemical recycling of solid plastic waste (SPW) is a paramount opportunity to reduce marine
and land pollution and to enable the incorporation of the circular economy principle in …

During the first 100 years of polymer science, controlled radical polymerization (also
recommended as reversible deactivation radical polymerization) is undoubtedly a …

The past decades have witnessed an increasing interest in developing advanced
polymerization techniques subjected to external fields. Various physical modulations, such …

Batch process control represents a challenge given its dynamic operation over a large
operating envelope. Nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) is the current standard for …

Biobased polymer molecules are a goal for the future. Here, the different intermediate
pathways toward renewable structural constituents, which can substitute petrochemically …

Stochastic modeling techniques have emerged as a powerful tool to study the time evolution
of processes in many research fields including (bio) chemical engineering and biology. One …

Since polypropylene was synthesized in 1954, tremendous breakthroughs have been
achieved in transferring polypropylene from a discovery in the laboratory to an …

Among the different thermo-chemical recycling routes for plastic waste valorization,
gasification is one of the most promising, converting plastic waste into syngas (H2+ CO) and …

The performance of polymeric materials depends strongly on the control over the polymer
microstructure during the synthesis step. In this review, attention is paid to the potential of …

In this work, a generalized quantitative structure–property relationship (QSPR) model is
developed for predicting kp by using norm index (NI)-based descriptors, which is the so …