ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2026
Synergistic Effects of Electricity and Light for Efficient Iron-Catalyzed Recycling of Polystyrene Waste.
Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2026. 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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- Natural Sunlight-Driven Synthesis of Conjugated Microporous Polymers via Electron Donor-Acceptor Complexes for Highly Efficient Catalytic Upcycling of Real-World Plastic Waste.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
- 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
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Abstract
Due to their intensive use in every aspect of our everyday life, plastics are accumulating in the environment, hence representing a major societal challenge. The accumulation of plastic waste in the oceans is expected to reach 40 billion tons by 2050. Thus, efficient methods for chemical plastic waste recycling continue to be in high demand toward a future circular economy. Herein, we report a powerful and user-friendly strategy merging inexpensive and earth-abundant iron catalysis, light irradiation and electricity to recycle polystyrene and styrene-containing copolymers into value-added benzoyl products with up to 73% yield. The robustness of this approach using iron-electrocatalysis under light irradiation was further demonstrated using postconsumer waste, also viable on multigram scale. Cathodic formation of molecular hydrogen through the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) offers an outstanding potential for a decentralized green hydrogen economy through a societally useful anodic oxidative transformation.
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