The review by Yip et al explores how synthetic biology—the use of engineered enzymes and microbes—can help create a circular plastics economy
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Read the paper: buff.ly/t6pQLaZ
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October 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Issue 10 of RSC Sustainability is now online! 💚
Check out the work highlighted on the front cover
Lignin depolymerization from softwood biomass using integrated protic ionic liquid–enzyme pretreatment: doi.org/10.1039/D5SU...
#SustainableChemistry #Chemsky
Check out the work highlighted on the front cover
Lignin depolymerization from softwood biomass using integrated protic ionic liquid–enzyme pretreatment: doi.org/10.1039/D5SU...
#SustainableChemistry #Chemsky
October 2, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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On my way home from the 2025 Faraday Discussions on Polymerization and Depolymerization. It was great fun with lots of good science and many discussions. I learned a lot!
Thanks Charlotte Williams and @antoinebuchard.bsky.social for the organization and the invitation!
#FD2025 #ozchem #chemsky
Thanks Charlotte Williams and @antoinebuchard.bsky.social for the organization and the invitation!
#FD2025 #ozchem #chemsky
September 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Excellent discussion at today’s start to the Faraday Discussion on polymerization and depolymerization. Thanks for all the great comments and questions! Looking forward to tomorrow’s session covering catalysis and contributions from Fran (@chemmouse.bsky.social) #FD_polym
September 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Plastic depolymerization and carbon capture in one paper - the aminolyzed PET shows surprisingly high thermal stability which led us to investigate for carbon dioxide capture and DAC. The material is scalable and the chemistry is robust. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Repurposing polyethylene terephthalate plastic waste to capture carbon dioxide
A scalable chemical upcycling of PET waste into an efficient, durable, and selective CO2 sorbent has been achieved.
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September 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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yeah you're acting like you're edgy and I'm still thinking that abiogenetic oil might have legs.
Pressure + heat is the backbone of thermal depolymerization. It's how you turn humans into oil. #SoylentUnleaded
Pressure + heat is the backbone of thermal depolymerization. It's how you turn humans into oil. #SoylentUnleaded
February 15, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Simultaneous depolymerization of polyethylene and polypropylene into a mixture of propene and isobutene
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PE and PP Waste Converted Into Propene and Isobutene - ChemistryViews
PE and PP Waste Converted Into Propene and Isobutene: Simultaneous depolymerization of polyethylene and polypropylene into a mixture of propene and isobutene
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September 22, 2024 at 6:13 AM
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Our work with @williamsgroupox.bsky.social uncovering thermodynamic and kinetic relationships in depolymerization catalysis is out in @jacs.acspublications.org. Congrats to Thom McGuire & David Ning who led the study. Thanks @royalsociety.org @ukcatalysishub.bsky.social. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
The Science of Polymer Chemical Recycling Catalysis: Uncovering Kinetic and Thermodynamic Linear Free Energy Relationships
Polymer recycling must accelerate to limit ever-growing wastes and carbon dioxide emissions. Polymer chemical recycling to monomer enables multiple closed recycling loops, tackling the material and pr...
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June 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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God help you if you show up in my mentions to whine about the energy inputs needed for a large scale continuous thermal depolymerization plant. I know why we aren’t doing it, shut up.
August 20, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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"By contrast, the Mixed ASD with DD class was characterized by processes of neuronal action potential and membrane depolarization, negative regulation of protein depolymerization and voltage-gated sodium channel activity."
July 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Do Acyclic Diene Metathesis Depolymerization on
May 8, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Here, we show how our technology enables the production of enzymes immobilized by the producer cell itself in a single step, capable of degrading post-consumer PET. The immobilization also enables the recycling of the enzymes, which can be reused for subsequent rounds of plastic depolymerization.
June 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Take a look at this month's Editor's Choice article, and the latest contribution to the "Pathways to a Circular Economy of Plastics" Special Series:
"Biorecycling of polylactide: From enzymatic depolymerization to biotransformation of released products"
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"Biorecycling of polylactide: From enzymatic depolymerization to biotransformation of released products"
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July 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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I had high hopes for Thermal Depolymerization, but other than a few plants here and there, it never got adopted with the enthusiasm the technology deserves.
TDP can process and destroy waste that has been contaminated with 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒔, with zero risk to the environment or the public health.
TDP can process and destroy waste that has been contaminated with 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒔, with zero risk to the environment or the public health.
August 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Impressed by the first morning session at #INCOME2025! 🚀
Balaž (Slovak Acad. Sci.): mechanochemical leaching & milling
Vollmer (Utrecht): depolymerization of polyolefins
Tysoe (UW-Milwaukee): mech. stress & reaction rates
#Mechanochemistry #BAMResearch #HumboldtUni #SALSAAdlershof
Balaž (Slovak Acad. Sci.): mechanochemical leaching & milling
Vollmer (Utrecht): depolymerization of polyolefins
Tysoe (UW-Milwaukee): mech. stress & reaction rates
#Mechanochemistry #BAMResearch #HumboldtUni #SALSAAdlershof
September 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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MLL/WDR5 complex recruits KIF2C to midbody to ensure MT depolymerization and furrow compaction during cytokinesis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.17.618797v1
MLL/WDR5 complex recruits KIF2C to midbody to ensure MT depolymerization and furrow compaction during cytokinesis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.17.618797v1
Mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL) protein is a well characterized epigenetic regulator whose non-canonica
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October 18, 2024 at 8:31 AM
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What initiates mitochondrial fission? Why, microtubule depolymerization, of course! Our paper on microtubule-mediated mitochondrial dynamics has been accepted. What a pleasure it was to work with @jbiolchem @ChiefEditorJBC. Link to full text here:
November 17, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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Whoa, at room temperature too, that’s a big change from thermal depolymerization.
August 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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I may be biased but I consider the depolymerization of lignin to selectively yield small molecules to just be plain old molecular wood carving where the sawdust is just vanillin
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c00162?source=cen
now molecular carpentry would be...
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c00162?source=cen
now molecular carpentry would be...
December 5, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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One-Pot Electrocatalytic Lignin Depolymerization with In-Situ Extraction: A Feasible Approach Toward Biomass-Based Oils https://dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-1jl0d?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
April 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Online now: Pilot-scale reductive catalytic depolymerization of lignin: Challenges and guidelines
Pilot-scale reductive catalytic depolymerization of lignin: Challenges and guidelines
The valorization of renewable materials is critical to improving the circularity of the chemical industry. This Synergy article describes how lignin waste streams can be upgraded to valuable resources through reductive catalytic depolymerization. The article presents the challenges linked to the upscaling of this process and offers guidelines for performing the process in a successful and economic manner.
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March 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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🌟 "Unravelling the effect of side chain on RAFT depolymerization; identifying the rate determining step" by Francesco Felician et al., including Board Member Athina Anastasaki
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Unravelling the effect of side chain on RAFT depolymerization; identifying the rate determining step
Reversible addition–fragmentation chain-transfer (RAFT) depolymerization represents an attractive and low-temperature chemical recycling methodology enabling the near-quantitative regeneration of pris...
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August 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Focal Adhesion Kinase (FAK) inhibition induces membrane accumulation of aquaporin2 (AQP2) through endocytosis inhibition and actin depolymerization in renal epithelial cells. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.08.617300v1
Focal Adhesion Kinase (FAK) inhibition induces membrane accumulation of aquaporin2 (AQP2) through endocytosis inhibition and actin depolymerization in renal epithelial cells. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.08.617300v1
Cellular trafficking of the water channel aquaporin 2 (AQP2) is regulated by the actin cytoskeleton
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October 9, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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🎉 Our February issue is online now!
Acetylene as a building block, bioprocess considerations in plastic depolymerization, biogas sequestration to carbon nanofibers, depolymerizable polydienes, electrochemical Li-battery material recycling, and more!
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Acetylene as a building block, bioprocess considerations in plastic depolymerization, biogas sequestration to carbon nanofibers, depolymerizable polydienes, electrochemical Li-battery material recycling, and more!
nature.com/natchemeng/v... ($)
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February 28, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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