ReviewNature2022
Critical advances and future opportunities in upcycling commodity polymers.
Review in Nature, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 206 papers.
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Who cites it
206 citing papers in PubMed.
- Bisphenols and Phthalates in Bottled Mineral Water: First Evidence of Co-Occurrence, Estrogenic Activity, and Health Risk in Brazil.Environmental toxicology · 2026Article
- Enhanced Mechanical Recycling of Polymer Mixtures by a Trifunctional Dynamic Crosslinker.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Chemically Recyclable Polymers: Tunable Performance Enabled by Precision Ring-Opening (Co)polymerization.Precision chemistry · 2026Review
- Electrophilic substitution in poly(ethylene terephthalate) waste for upcycling to functional metal-organic frameworks.Materials horizons · 2026Article
- Precise Engineering of Sustainable Fiber Composites Comprising Biobased or Valorized Matrices and Solid Components: A Perspective.ACS environmental Au · 2026Review
- Ion-pair cooperativity in common neutral salts promotes methanolysis of ester-containing plastics.Chemical science · 2026Article
- The selective and sequential chemical recycling of commodity polymers with imino-indole zinc(ii) catalysts.Green chemistry : an international journal and green chemistry resource : GC · 2026Article
- An Oxygen-Defect-Induced Unsaturated Coordination Strategy Boosts High-Selective PET Upcycling via Suppressing Oxygen Evolution.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
- Bimetallic Synergistic Catalysis Enabling Efficient Chemical Recycling of Commercial Polyesters.Polymer science & technology (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Visible light-triggered co-upcycling of polypropylene and polyethylene terephthalate using waste chlorinated solvents.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Polyesterase activity and thermostability of carboxylesterases from Thermoleophilum album YS-3.The FEBS journal · 2026Article
- Photoreforming and Photoelectroreforming of Waste-Derived Feedstocks for Solar-Driven Production of Fuels and Chemicals.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Review
- Dynamic Self-Focusing Photothermal Localization Induced Mild Solvent-Free Upcycling of Polystyrene.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Acyclic Hydrocarbon α,ω-Dienes: From Biomass and Plastic Upcycling to Carbocycles, Precision Polymers, and Cross-Linked Elastomers.ChemSusChem · 2026Review
- Additive-Free Compatibilization of Commodity Polypropylene/Polyethylene via Partial Melting and Recrystallization.JACS Au · 2026Article
- Natural Sunlight-Driven Synthesis of Conjugated Microporous Polymers via Electron Donor-Acceptor Complexes for Highly Efficient Catalytic Upcycling of Real-World Plastic Waste.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
- Comprehensive quantitative analysis of polyolefin hydrogenolysis toward plastic waste management.Nature protocols · 2026Review
- Photocatalytic Depolymerization of Commercial Polymethacrylates via a Solvent-Independent Pathway.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026Article
- Photocracking of Polystyrene into Aromatic Products in CHAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
146 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The vast majority of commodity plastics do not degrade and therefore they permanently pollute the environment. At present, less than 20% of post-consumer plastic waste in developed countries is recycled, predominately for energy recovery or repurposing as lower-value materials by mechanical recycling. Chemical recycling offers an opportunity to revert plastics back to monomers for repolymerization to virgin materials without altering the properties of the material or the economic value of the polymer. For plastic waste that is either cost prohibitive or infeasible to mechanically or chemically recycle, the nascent field of chemical upcycling promises to use chemical or engineering approaches to place plastic waste at the beginning of a new value chain. Here state-of-the-art methods are highlighted for upcycling plastic waste into value-added performance materials, fine chemicals and specialty polymers. By identifying common conceptual approaches, we critically discuss how the advantages and challenges of each approach contribute to the goal of realizing a sustainable plastics economy.
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