ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Enzymatic depolymerization of highly crystalline polyethylene terephthalate enabled in moist-solid reaction mixtures.
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- Bottlenecks in biobased approaches to plastic degradation.Nature communications · 2024Review
- Strategies for Considering Environmental Justice in the Early-Stage Development of Circular Economy Technologies.ACS sustainable chemistry & engineering · 2024Article
- Depolymerization within a Circular Plastics System.Chemical reviews · 2024Review
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Abstract
Less than 9% of the plastic produced is recycled after use, contributing to the global plastic pollution problem. While polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is one of the most common plastics, its thermomechanical recycling generates a material of lesser quality. Enzymes are highly selective, renewable catalysts active at mild temperatures; however, they lack activity toward the more crystalline forms of PET commonly found in consumer plastics, requiring the energy-expensive melt-amorphization step of PET before enzymatic depolymerization. We report here that, when used in moist-solid reaction mixtures instead of the typical dilute aqueous solutions or slurries, the cutinase from
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