Topic:
Via selective deconstruction (by protic ionic salts), post-consumer plastic waste was converted into functional molecules that can serve as building blocks for new polymer materials with built-in closed-loop recyclability.
This new strategy shows that it is possible to use waste plastic as a feedstock to prepare useful molecules beyond the polymer’s component monomers, making the development of novel, upcycled circular plastics possible.
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