ReviewMacromolecular rapid communications2025
Electrochemical Commodity Polymer Up- and Re-Cycling: Toward Sustainable and Circular Plastic Treatment.
Review in Macromolecular rapid communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Photocracking of Polystyrene into Aromatic Products in CHAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
- Synergistic Effects of Electricity and Light for Efficient Iron-Catalyzed Recycling of Polystyrene Waste.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
- Electrochemical Commodity Polymer Up- and Re-Cycling: Toward Sustainable and Circular Plastic Treatment.Macromolecular rapid communications · 2025Review
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Abstract
The demand for commodity plastics reaches unprecedented dimensions. In contrast to the well-developed plethora of methods for polymer synthesis, sustainable strategies for the end-of-life management of plastics continue to be scarce. While mechanical re-cycling often results in downgraded materials, chemical re-cycling or up-cycling offers tremendous potential for an efficient and green approach, thereby addressing the precarious treatment of post-use plastics within a circular carbon economy. Recently, electrochemistry surfaced as a uniquely powerful tool for polymer up-cycling via polymer functionalization or degradation obtaining either novel polymers with valorized properties or high-value recycled small molecules, respectively. While discussing recent progress in that domain, future perspectives of electrochemical polymer modifications until January 2025 are outlined herein.
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