Green Chemistry,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
Emerging
technologies-empowered
thermochemical
plastic
valorization
is
developed
for
value-added
products
in
green
and
practical
manner,
which
are
beneficial
to
achieving
circular
economy
several
UN
sustainable
development
goals.
Nature Communications,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
16(1)
Published: April 10, 2025
Electrocatalytic
upcycling
of
polyethylene
terephthalate
(PET)
plastics
offers
a
promising
and
sustainable
route
that
not
only
addresses
serious
waste
pollution
but
also
produces
high
value-added
chemicals.
Despite
some
important
achievements,
their
activity
selectivity
have
been
slower
than
needed.
In
this
work,
pulsed
electrocatalysis
is
employed
to
engineer
chemisorption
properties
on
lamellar
mesoporous
PdCu
(LM-PdCu)
catalyst,
which
delivers
stability
for
selective
electrosynthesis
glycolic
acid
(GA)
from
PET
under
ambient
conditions.
LM-PdCu
synthesized
by
in
situ
nucleation
attachment
strategy
along
assembled
templates,
whose
stacked
morphology
structure
kinetically
accelerate
desorption
GA
expose
fresh
active
sites
metal
catalysts
continuous
at
mode.
This
thus
Faraday
efficiency
>92%
wide
potential
windows,
yield
rate
reaching
0.475
mmol
cm-2
h-1,
cycling
exceeding
20
cycles
electrocatalytic
upcycling.
Moreover,
discloses
good
performance
scaled-up
real
bottle
plastics.
work
presents
chemicals
through
various
feedstocks.
Green Chemistry,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
Emerging
technologies-empowered
thermochemical
plastic
valorization
is
developed
for
value-added
products
in
green
and
practical
manner,
which
are
beneficial
to
achieving
circular
economy
several
UN
sustainable
development
goals.