ArticleChemSusChem2021
Chemo-Biological Upcycling of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) to Multifunctional Coating Materials.
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- Two-Step Chemo-Microbial Degradation of Post-Consumer Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Plastic Enabled by a Biomass-Waste Catalyst.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Discovery and mechanism-guided engineering of BHET hydrolases for improved PET recycling and upcycling.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Mechanistic studies of a lipase unveil effect of pH on hydrolysis products of small PET modules.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Microbial Enzyme Biotechnology to Reach Plastic Waste Circularity: Current Status, Problems and Perspectives.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Recent Advances in the Chemobiological Upcycling of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) into Value-Added Chemicals.Journal of microbiology and biotechnology · 2023Review
- Rapid depolymerization of poly(ethylene terephthalate) thin films by a dual-enzyme system and its impact on material properties.Chem catalysis · 2022Article
- Critical Review on the Progress of Plastic Bioupcycling Technology as a Potential Solution for Sustainable Plastic Waste Management.Polymers · 2022Review
- Microbial degradation and valorization of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) monomers.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2022Review
- Biochemical and structural characterization of an aromatic ring-hydroxylating dioxygenase for terephthalic acid catabolism.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Mechanism-Based Design of Efficient PET Hydrolases.ACS catalysis · 2022Review
- Chemo-Biological Upcycling of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) to Multifunctional Coating Materials.ChemSusChem · 2021Article
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Abstract
Chemo-biological upcycling of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) developed in this study includes the following key steps: chemo-enzymatic PET depolymerization, biotransformation of terephthalic acid (TPA) into catechol, and its application as a coating agent. Monomeric units were first produced through PET glycolysis into bis(2-hydroxyethyl) terephthalate (BHET), mono(2-hydroxyethyl) terephthalate (MHET), and PET oligomers, and enzymatic hydrolysis of these glycolyzed products using Bacillus subtilis esterase (Bs2Est). Bs2Est efficiently hydrolyzed glycolyzed products into TPA as a key enzyme for chemo-enzymatic depolymerization. Furthermore, catechol solution produced from TPA via a whole-cell biotransformation (Escherichia coli) could be directly used for functional coating on various substrates after simple cell removal from the culture medium without further purification and water-evaporation. This work demonstrates a proof-of-concept of a PET upcycling strategy via a combination of chemo-biological conversion of PET waste into multifunctional coating materials.
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