A review on carbon materials production from plastic wastes

L Dai, O Karakas, Y Cheng, K Cobb, P Chen… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Approximately 36 million tons of waste plastics are generated in the United States each
year, most of which are discharged into the environment and end in landfills. This is …

Thermochemical conversion of plastic waste into fuels, chemicals, and value‐added materials: a critical review and outlooks

RX Yang, K Jan, CT Chen, WT Chen… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Plastic waste is an emerging environmental issue for our society. Critical action to tackle this
problem is to upcycle plastic waste as valuable feedstock. Thermochemical conversion of …

[HTML][HTML] Plastic wastes derived carbon materials for green energy and sustainable environmental applications

Z Chen, W Wei, BJ Ni, H Chen - Environmental Functional Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Plastic waste has become a serious environmental issue and has attracted increasing
attention. Various treatment technologies have been developed for the remediation of this …

Recent progress in controlled carbonization of (waste) polymers

J Gong, X Chen, T Tang - Progress in Polymer Science, 2019 - Elsevier
The controlled carbonization of polymers is one of the most important polymer reactions. It
represents the conversion process of polymeric precursors into carbonaceous materials in a …

Hydrogen and carbon nanotubes from pyrolysis-catalysis of waste plastics: A review

PT Williams - Waste and Biomass Valorization, 2021 - Springer
More than 27 million tonnes of waste plastics are generated in Europe each year
representing a considerable potential resource. There has been extensive research into the …

Closed pore engineering of activated carbon enabled by waste mask for superior sodium storage

S Zhang, N Sun, X Li, RA Soomro, B Xu - Energy Storage Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Carbonaceous materials with closed pore structure have emerged as intriguing anode
materials for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). However, it remains a significant challenge to …

Upcycling Plastic Wastes into Value‐Added Products by Heterogeneous Catalysis

T Tan, W Wang, K Zhang, Z Zhan, W Deng… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Plastics are playing essential roles in the modern society. The majority of them enter
environment through landfilling or discarding after turning into wastes, causing severe …

[HTML][HTML] Co-production of hydrogen and carbon nanotubes from real-world waste plastics: Influence of catalyst composition and operational parameters

D Yao, Y Zhang, PT Williams, H Yang… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The use of Ni-Fe catalysts for the catalytic pyrolysis of real-world waste plastics to
produce hydrogen and high value carbon nanotubes (CNT), and the influence of catalyst …

Carbonization: A feasible route for reutilization of plastic wastes

S Chen, Z Liu, S Jiang, H Hou - Science of the total environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Plastics not only bring convenience and color to human life, but also bring endless troubles
and disaster to our environment. Reutilization of plastic wastes is in favor of energy …

A green and high-yield route to recycle waste masks into CNTs/Ni hybrids via catalytic carbonization and their application for superior microwave absorption

R Yu, X Wen, J Liu, Y Wang, X Chen… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2021 - Elsevier
With the worldwide pandemic of COVID-19, a tremendous amount of face masks have been
consumed and discarded, resulting in serious environment pollution and infectious hazards …