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ArticleACS applied polymer materials2025

High-Temperature Size Exclusion Chromatography for Advanced Recycling: Systematic Errors in Analysis of PolyethyleneAlkane Mixtures.

Mason D Jones, Christine W Barker, Fawaz Motolani, Rakesh Patter, S Michael Kilbey, Bert D Chandler, Brian K Long, Bryan D Vogt

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Article in ACS applied polymer materials, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Mason D JonesDepartment of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States.
Christine W BarkerDepartment of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States.
Fawaz MotolaniDepartment of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16803, United States.
Rakesh PatterDepartment of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States.
S Michael KilbeyDepartment of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9431-1138
Bert D ChandlerDepartment of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16803, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8621-0361
Brian K LongDepartment of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States.
Bryan D VogtDepartment of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16803, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1916-7145

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Abstract

Polyolefins, which dominate the plastics marketplace, require high-temperature size exclusion chromatography (HT-SEC) to characterize their molar masses. Chemical recycling methods designed to deconstruct plastic waste into smaller molecules (i.e., depolymerization methods) rely on HT-SEC to characterize their products, but depolymerization methods often yield a complex mixture, including components below the typical separation range of commercial HT-SEC columns. Herein, we report the accuracy and limitations of triple detection HT-SEC to analyze model chemical recycling products. We examined the chromatographic separation and quantification of individual components and mixtures of short polyethylenes (apparent

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alkaneschemical recyclinggel permeation chromatography (GPC)polyolefinssize exclusion chromatography (SEC)waxes

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PMCPMC12379138

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