Recycling of multilayer plastic packaging materials by solvent-targeted recovery and precipitation
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A thermodynamically guided approach enables the solvent-based recycling of multilayer plastic packaging films.
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The hard and soft blocks were readily separated through industrially viable selective solvent isolation by precipitation of the hard block and purified to remove catalyst residues to low ppm levels such that ruthenium levels did not increase during subsequent polymerizations.
“The hard and soft blocks were readily separated through industrially viable selective solvent isolation ( 31 ) by precipitation of the hard block and purified to remove catalyst residues to low ppm levels such that ruthenium levels did not increase during subsequent polymerizations.”
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- Authors
- Walker, T. W., Frelka, N., Shen, Z., Chew, A. K., Banick, J., Grey, S., Kim, M. S., Dumesic, J. A., Van Lehn, R. C., & Huber, G. W.
- Affiliations
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Amcor Flexibles, Neenah Innovation Center, Neenah, WI 54956, USA.
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
- Corresponding author
- Huber, George W.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Science Advances
- Published
- 2020-11-20
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 47
- ISSN
- 2375-2548 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7679168
- OpenAlex
- W3101225907
- Cited by
- 442
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2026: 94 · 2025: 104 · 2024: 72 · 2023: 70 · 2022: 59 · 2021: 43
- FWCI
- 16.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Science Advances (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research under Award Numbers (DE-SC0018409)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Polymers and Plastics › Polymer crystallization and properties
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Waste Management and Recycling
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Keywords
- plastic recycling, polymer separation, polymer solubility, polyethylene, ethylene vinyl alcohol, polyethylene terephthalate
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