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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2025

Mechanochemical Degradation of Polystyrene Into Benzene for Recycling and Upcycling.

Ming-Chi Wang, Junyang Li, Ashley Zelina, Benjamin Pepper, Junpeng Wang

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 authors.

Ming-Chi WangSchool of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, 170 University Ave., Akron, OH, 44325, USA.
Junyang LiSchool of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, 170 University Ave., Akron, OH, 44325, USA.
Ashley ZelinaSchool of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, 170 University Ave., Akron, OH, 44325, USA.
Benjamin PepperSchool of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, 170 University Ave., Akron, OH, 44325, USA.
Junpeng WangSchool of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, 170 University Ave., Akron, OH, 44325, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4503-5026

Funding

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a Sloan Research Fellowship FG-2023-20341National Science Foundation DMR-2215940National Science Foundation under grant CHE-2051052National Science Foundation under grant CHE-2204079
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synthetic plastics sourced from petroleum have gained widespread use since the 1950s. Polystyrene (PS) is one of the most extensively used plastics, as it is colorless, has high mechanical strength, and exhibits excellent chemical and thermal stability; however, it is also one of the least recycled plastics because of the high cost and low profit in recycling. Herein, we demonstrate a mechanochemical recycling approach that allows PS to be efficiently degraded into benzene when it is ground in a ball mill with AlCl

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Ball millingMechanochemical degradationPolystyreneRecyclingUpcycling

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PMID40852848
PMCPMC12501741

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