Catalyst-Free Upcycling of Polyethylene Waste Into Oxidized Polyethylene Wax.

Guoli Chen, Rongrong Jia, Liyi Shi, Ping Cheng, Jingxiu Yang, Zhuangchai Lai, Lei Huang

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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. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Guoli ChenResearch Center of Nano Science and Technology, College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8577-2488

Rongrong JiaDepartment of Physics, Shanghai Key Laboratory of High Temperature Superconductors, College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.

Liyi ShiResearch Center of Nano Science and Technology, College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.

Ping ChengSchool of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0962-8609

Jingxiu YangSchool of Materials Science and Engineering and Key Laboratory of Architectural Cold Climate Energy Management, Ministry of Education, Jilin Jianzhu University, Jilin, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1705-1950

Zhuangchai LaiDepartment of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8743-6568

Lei HuangResearch Center of Nano Science and Technology, College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0018-0569

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Hong Kong Polytechnic University 1-BE7UNational Natural Science Foundation of China 12104181National Natural Science Foundation of China 22378256

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Abstract

Polyethylene (PE) accounts for 36% of the total plastic waste by mass. However, its inherent chemical stability poses significant challenges for chemical recycling, including energy-intensive processing, costly catalysts, and thermodynamic constraints that result in low-value hydrocarbon products. Herein, we present a catalyst-free, one-pot hydrothermal oxidation strategy for the efficient upcycling of waste PE into high-value oxidized polyethylene wax (OPEW). Notably, under optimized conditions (160°C, 1.5 MPa O

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catalyst‐freeoxidationoxidized polyethylene waxwaste plastic upcycling

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PMID42283332

DOI10.1002/anie.5563553

PMCPMC13452519

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