ArticleNature communications2025
Scale-up upcycling of waste polyethylene terephthalate plastics to biodegradable polyglycolic acid plastics.
Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Electronic Modulation of NiO by Cu Doping Toward Enhanced Electrocatalytic Ethylene Glycol Oxidation to Formate.ChemSusChem · 2026Article
- Transition Metal-Catalyzed Chemical Recycling and Upcycling of Polyethylene Terephthalate.ChemSusChem · 2026Review
- Sunlight-Driven Concurrent Synthesis of Jet Fuel Precursors and Hydrogen From Biomass-Derived Furfuryl Alcohol Over Oxygen-Doped ZnAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Atomically precise catalysts design toward efficient waste plastic hydrogenolysis.Nature communications · 2026Review
- Simultaneously Engineering the Amorphous Phase and Branch Morphology of High-Entropy Alloy Nanomaterials for Enhanced Ethylene Glycol Oxidation.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Rational Engineering of Self-Supported Catalysts for High-Performance Electrochemical Oxygen Evolution and Ethylene Glycol Oxidation.Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society · 2026Article
- Piezocatalytic reforming of plastics into high-value chemicals.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Carbonylolysis of waste polyesters into high-value organic acids.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Engineered microbes to enable a circular economy for biodegradable plastics.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
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Abstract
Electrochemical upcycling of waste polyethylene terephthalate (PET) into biodegradable polyglycolic acid (PGA) is a promising solution to relieve plastic pollution. However, both the low current density and tedious separation process for target glycolic acid (GA) products in a flow electrolysis have hindered industrial-scale applications. Here, we show an interfacial acid-base microenvironment regulation strategy for the efficient oxidation of PET-derived ethylene glycol (EG) into GA using Pd-CoCr
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