A team of materials scientists and engineers at ETH Zurich has developed a light-triggered chemical process for breaking down certain polymers into their constituent monomers. The paper is published ...

A new discovery offers a promising way to break down stubborn plastics like Plexiglass into their original building blocks, ...

Researchers have reported a method for breaking down commercial polymers like Plexiglass into monomers, a form more desirable for reuse. This could help alleviate the growing plastic waste stream.

a, In biopolymers such as proteins, the sequence of monomer units is carefully controlled to produce functional 3D structures, but there is a limited pool of potential monomers from which such ...

Researchers have reported a method for breaking down commercial polymers like Plexiglass into monomers, a form more desirable for reuse. This could ...

A ‘breakthrough’ in the chemical recycling of nylon uses subcritical water to obtain monomers in just minutes – halving CO2 ...

In their study, the research team synthesized optically active conducting polymers from non-optically active monomers through physical rather than chemical methods using a liquid crystal reaction ...

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