Enzymes' power for plastics degradation

V Tournier, S Duquesne, F Guillamot… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Plastics are everywhere in our modern way of living, and their production keeps increasing
every year, causing major environmental concerns. Nowadays, the end-of-life management …

Mechanism-based design of efficient PET hydrolases

R Wei, G von Haugwitz, L Pfaff, J Mican… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is the most widespread synthetic polyester, having been
utilized in textile fibers and packaging materials for beverages and food, contributing …

Assessment of four engineered PET degrading enzymes considering large-scale industrial applications

G Arnal, J Anglade, S Gavalda, V Tournier… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In recent years, enzymatic recycling of the widely used polyester polyethylene terephthalate
(PET) has become a complementary solution to current thermomechanical recycling for …

Multiple substrate binding mode-guided engineering of a thermophilic PET hydrolase

L Pfaff, J Gao, Z Li, A Jäckering, G Weber… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Thermophilic polyester hydrolases (PES-H) have recently enabled biocatalytic recycling of
the mass-produced synthetic polyester polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which has found …

Chain mobility, thermal, and mechanical properties of poly (ethylene furanoate) compared to poly (ethylene terephthalate)

SK Burgess, JE Leisen, BE Kraftschik… - …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Poly (ethylene furanoate)(PEF), the furan-derived analogue to poly (ethylene
terephthalate)(PET), can provide a fully biosourced alternative to PET with greatly improved …

Engineering and evaluation of thermostable IsPETase variants for PET degradation

S Brott, L Pfaff, J Schuricht, JN Schwarz… - Engineering in life …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a mass‐produced petroleum‐based synthetic polymer.
Enzymatic PET degradation using, for example, Ideonella sakaiensis PETase (IsPETase) …

Water sorption in poly (ethylene furanoate) compared to poly (ethylene terephthalate). Part 2: Kinetic sorption

SK Burgess, DS Mikkilineni, BY Daniel, DJ Kim… - Polymer, 2014 - Elsevier
Diffusion coefficients for water in amorphous poly (ethylene furanoate)(PEF) and poly
(ethylene terephthalate)(PET) were studied at 35° C over the entire water activity range. PEF …

Water sorption in poly (ethylene furanoate) compared to poly (ethylene terephthalate). Part 1: Equilibrium sorption

SK Burgess, DS Mikkilineni, BY Daniel, DJ Kim… - Polymer, 2014 - Elsevier
Equilibrium water sorption properties of amorphous poly (ethylene furanoate)(PEF) and
amorphous poly (ethylene terephthalate)(PET) were studied at 35° C over the entire water …

[HTML][HTML] Crystallization of Poly (ethylene terephthalate): A Review

ML Di Lorenzo - Polymers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Poly (ethylene terephthalate)(PET) is a thermoplastic polyester with excellent thermal and
mechanical properties, widely used in a variety of industrial fields. It is a semicrystalline …

A FTIR–ATR study of liquid diffusion processes in PET films: comparison of water with simple alcohols

C Sammon, J Yarwood, N Everall - Polymer, 2000 - Elsevier
An in-situ FTIR–ATR method for simultaneously obtaining both kinetic and structural
information during liquid sorption into polymers was presented. The kinetics and diffusion …