Beyond mechanical recycling: giving new life to plastic waste

I Vollmer, MJF Jenks, MCP Roelands… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing the stream of recycled plastic necessitates an approach beyond the traditional
recycling via melting and re‐extrusion. Various chemical recycling processes have great …

Bio-based polyesters: Recent progress and future prospects

Q Zhang, M Song, Y Xu, W Wang, Z Wang… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of sustainable and environmentally friendly polymer materials is among
the most pressing contemporary challenges for polymer science and engineering. Bio …

From lab to market: current strategies for the production of biobased polyols

H Sardon, D Mecerreyes, A Basterretxea… - ACS Sustainable …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The global market for polyols was US 26.2billionin2019andisexpectedtogrowuptoUS 34.4
billion by 2024. Polyols are most commonly employed as the main component in the …

Toward renewable amines: recent advances in the catalytic amination of biomass-derived oxygenates

NK Gupta, P Reif, P Palenicek, M Rose - ACS Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
Synthesis of high-value-added chemicals from biomass and/or biomass-derived platform
molecules is considered an important strategy to mitigate the global dependency on fossil …

Catalytic hydrogenation of cyclic carbonates using manganese complexes

A Kaithal, M Hölscher, W Leitner - … Chemie International Edition, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Catalytic hydrogenation of cyclic carbonates to diols and methanol was achieved using a
molecular catalyst based on earth‐abundant manganese. The complex [Mn (CO) 2 (Br)[HN …

Bio‐based cycloalkanes: the missing link to high‐performance sustainable jet fuels

JA Muldoon, BG Harvey - ChemSusChem, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The development of sustainable energy solutions that reduce global carbon emissions,
while maintaining high living standards, is one of the grand challenges of the current …

5-(Chloromethyl) furfural (CMF): a platform for transforming cellulose into commercial products

M Mascal - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2019 - ACS Publications
5-(Chloromethyl) furfural (CMF) is a carbohydrate-derived platform molecule that is gaining
traction as a more practical alternative to 5-(hydroxymethyl) furfural (HMF). This perspective …

Sustainable formulation polymers for home, beauty and personal care: challenges and opportunities

C Picken, O Buensoz, P Price, C Fidge, L Points… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
As society moves towards a net-zero future, the need to adopt more sustainable polymers is
well understood, and as well as plastics, less visible formulation polymers should also be …

Sustainable bio-based furan epoxy resin with flame retardancy

J Meng, Y Zeng, G Zhu, J Zhang, P Chen, Y Cheng… - Polymer …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
A novel bis-furan diepoxide (OmbFdE) was developed via a mild and scalable route, and
applied in epoxy resins in an eco-friendly manner, with the resulting materials showing good …

Die nächste Generation des Recyclings–neues Leben für Kunststoffmüll

I Vollmer, MJF Jenks, MCP Roelands… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Das Vergrößern des Recyclingstroms erfordert einen neuen Ansatz, der über das
Schmelzen und Umformen hinausgeht. Es gibt einige Techniken des chemischen …