Photoreforming of waste polymers for sustainable hydrogen fuel and chemicals feedstock: waste to energy

M Ashraf, N Ullah, I Khan, W Tremel, S Ahmad… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Energy from renewable resources is central to environmental sustainability. Among the
renewables, sunlight-driven fuel synthesis is a sustainable and economical approach to …

From plastic waste to treasure: selective upcycling through catalytic technologies

S Yue, P Wang, B Yu, T Zhang, Z Zhao… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The huge amount of plastic wastes has become a pressing global environmental problem,
leading to severe environmental pollution and resource depletion through conventional …

Electrocatalytic Valorization of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) Plastic and CO2 for Simultaneous Production of Formic Acid

J Wang, X Li, M Wang, T Zhang, X Chai, J Lu… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The electro-reforming of polymer plastic waste and CO2 has the merits for producing value-
added chemicals and alleviating environmental pollution. Herein, we report an …

From trash to treasure: Chemical recycling and upcycling of commodity plastic waste to fuels, high-valued chemicals and advanced materials

F Zhang, F Wang, X Wei, Y Yang, S Xu, D Deng… - Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Of all the existing materials, plastics are no doubt among the most versatile ones. However,
the extreme increases in plastic production as well as the difficulty of the material for …

Degradation of plastic wastes to commercial chemicals and monomers under visible light

J Meng, Y Zhou, D Li, X Jiang - Science Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
Plastics are playing an incrementally extensive and irreplaceable role in human life, but with
alarming cyclic unsustainability. Numerous attempts have been undertaken to recycle …

Upcycling of non-biodegradable plastics by base metal photocatalysis

C Li, XY Kong, M Lyu, XT Tay, M Đokić, KF Chin… - Chem, 2023 - cell.com
Plastics have become indispensable in our daily lives, but plastic waste has proliferated in
landfills and oceans since most plastics are non-biodegradable and cannot be mechanically …

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 …

Mechanochemistry milling of waste poly (Ethylene terephthalate) into metal–organic frameworks

P He, Z Hu, Z Dai, H Bai, Z Fan, R Niu, J Gong… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Converting poly (ethylene terephthalate)(PET) into metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) has
emerged as a promising innovation for upcycling of waste plastics. However, previous …

Recent advancement on photocatalytic plastic upcycling

S Qiao - Chemical Science, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Currently, more than 8 billion tons of plastics have been generated since 1950. About 80%
of these plastics have been dumped in landfills or went into natural environments, resulting …

State of the art in the photochemical degradation of (micro) plastics: from fundamental principles to catalysts and applications

W Li, W Zhao, H Zhu, ZJ Li, W Wang - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Plastic, due to its low cost, light weight, and tunable mechanical strength, is one of the most
commonly used materials in daily life. However, the massive production of plastics in the last …