A facile methodology for side- and upcycling of HDPE waste <i>via</i> partial creation of unsaturated double bonds-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

A facile methodology for side- and upcycling of HDPE waste via partial creation of unsaturated double bonds

Published:2024 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:1463-9262
Container-title:Green Chemistry
language:en
Short-container-title:Green Chem.

Author:

Wu Klingler Wenyu¹^ORCID,Perret Lucie¹,Rupper Patrick¹^ORCID,Lehner Sandro¹,Zhou Xiaoyu²,Eliasson Henrik³^ORCID,Muff Rico⁴,Heuberger Manfred¹⁵^ORCID,Gaan Sabyasachi¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Laboratory for Advanced Fibers, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Lerchenfeldstrasse 5, 9014 St Gallen, Switzerland

2. Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1–5, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland

3. Electron Microscopy Center, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland

4. Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces Laboratory, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland

5. Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland

Abstract

We present a facile chemical method for converting HDPE waste into valuable long-chain dicarboxylic acids (LCDCAs), thus transforming polymer waste into monomers for potentially novel polyester synthesis.

Funder

NCCR Catalysis

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2024/GC/D4GC03108C

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