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ArticleGreen chemistry : an international journal and green chemistry resource : GC2025

Sustainable upcycling of polyethylene waste to compatibilizers and valuable chemicals.

Darien K Nguyen, Zoé O G Schyns, LaShanda T J Korley, Dionisios G Vlachos

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Article in Green chemistry : an international journal and green chemistry resource : GC, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Darien K NguyenDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware Newark Delaware 19716 USA lkorley@udel.edu vlachos@udel.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7204-1467
Zoé O G SchynsDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware Newark Delaware 19716 USA lkorley@udel.edu vlachos@udel.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0487-9270
LaShanda T J KorleyDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware Newark Delaware 19716 USA lkorley@udel.edu vlachos@udel.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8266-5000
Dionisios G VlachosDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware Newark Delaware 19716 USA lkorley@udel.edu vlachos@udel.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6795-8403

Funding

High Performance Digital NMR SpectrometerS10RR026962 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE · PI FOX, JOSEPH M · 2010 to 2010
$500k
NCRR NIH HHS S10 RR026962
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Controllable functionalization of polyethylene (PE) waste could generate new polymeric materials that are generally difficult to manufacture sustainably while also addressing the growing plastics waste problem. However, these modifications remain challenging due to the inherent stability of the PE backbone. Non-thermal atmospheric plasma enables molecular activation under mild conditions while utilizing renewable energy but is primarily employed for surface modification, as plasmas do not penetrate the bulk of materials. Herein, controllable bulk oxidative functionalization of PE wax (PEW) and low-density PE (LDPE) of varying molecular weights was achieved, with up to 6 mol% oxygen incorporation, by manipulating melt viscosity. This functionalization was accomplished either through temperature adjustment or by introducing a melt viscosity modifier, removable

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PMCPMC12455293

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