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This project introduces a novel catalyst to enhance plastic recycling by breaking down polyolefins into their original building blocks using mechanical force instead of heat. The approach aims to produce high-quality polymers while reducing energy costs associated with traditional methods.
Less than 9% of plastic is recycled.
Currently applied recycling technology yields degraded materials because undesired mechano-chemical bond cleavage shortens the polymer upon repeated processing.
Here, I introduce a new type of catalyst to exploit this undesired effect to recover the polymer building blocks, the monomers, which enables the production of new high-quality polymer. I will focus on polyolefins (PP, PE) that make up 50% of polymer production and for which the state-of-the-art pyrol…
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