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Upcycling Keratin‐Based Textile Waste Into High‐Performance Hybrid Fibers Via Tuning the Interfacial Interactions

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Keratin recovered from animal‐hair textile waste is fractionated and blended with cellulose to produce continuously spun hybrid fibers. Selecting the high‐molecular‐weight keratin fraction enables 30 wt.% keratin incorporation while maintaining high strength in dry and wet states.
Mian Zhai, Daniel Van Opdenbosch, Inge Schlapp‐Hackl, Teemu Välisalmi, Markus Linder, Michael Hummel, Wenwen Fang   +6 more
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Enabling waterless polycotton textile waste recycling via controlled partial depolymerization of polyester

Less than 1 % of post-consumer textiles are currently recycled, largely due to the challenge of separating polycotton blends. This study introduces a novel, waterless chemical recycling method for highly pigmented 50/50 polycotton textiles, enabling ...
Gunawan, Poernomo, Chew, Jiawei, Nguyen, Tien Hoa, Gupta, Nupur, Xiao, Hu, Sharma, Esha, H’ng, Yin Ying, Tay, Choryong Yong Dalton, Liang, Yennan, Stavik, Jaroslav, Lee, Mun Wai, Khoo, Yingsiew, Seah, Geok Leng   +12 more
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Acetoacetates Derived From Vegetable Oils: A Platform for Tailor‐Made Vinylogous Urethane Foams

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A renewable vegetable oil is converted into acetoacetate‐functionalized precursors for the preparation of catalyst‐free vinylogous urethane foams. Room‐temperature foaming with n‐pentane generates lightweight cellular materials, while the choice of amine enables control over foam structure and mechanical properties.
Krzysztof Polaczek, Priscilla de Souza Lima, Olga Gotkiewicz, Ondrej Kopilec, Radka Hobzova, Lívia Kanizsová, Mikelis Kirpluks, Ondrej Sedlacek, Hynek Beneš   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Photo‐Switchable Molecular Module Programming PET Biodegradation in Aquatic Environments

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We address the plastic durability paradox by integrating an itaconic acid–derived pyrrolidone module into polymer backbones. Sunlight in water triggers Norrish Type I ring‐opening and hydrophilization, enabling rapid biodegradation into nontoxic minerals.
Mohammad Asif Ali, Jixin Zheng, Satoshi Wakai, Jie Liu, Hidetaka Nomaki, Misato Tsukatani, Noriyuki Isobe, Jingcheng Sang, Yuriko Aoki, Hideo Okamura, Daisuke Sasaki, Chiaki Ogino, Yuzo Yamazaki, Takashi Nishikaze, Kenji Takada, Maiko K. Okajima, Tatsuo Kaneko   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transition Metal-Catalyzed Chemical Recycling and Upcycling of Polyethylene Terephthalate. [PDF]

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Zhang S, Yu X, Wang H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Desert Plant Inspired Hierarchical Nanofibrous Membranes for Integrated Solar Desalination and Heavy Metal Remediation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
An Alhagi maurorum inspired hierarchical composite membrane (NFCu) was developed by integrating heavy metal remediation and solar‐driven interfacial evaporation in a single platform. Beyond the photothermal effect, a localized photocatalytic process is realized on the CuO surface, deepening the mechanistic understanding of light–matter–water ...
Yuqiong He, Ronggang Luo, Shengbo Ge, Kaixin Jiang, Kirsten Dyer, Xiaojian Zhou, Ben Bin Xu, Xuehua Zhang, Guanben Du, Kaimeng Xu   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Catalytic Effect on Simplified Chemical Recycling of Poly(butylene terephthalate). [PDF]

ChemSusChem
Kwon J, Hwang DK, Park SB, Kim S, Jeon H, Koo JM.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Decoupling the Size and Loading Effects in Silver Nanoparticles for Efficient Paired Carbon Dioxide and Formaldehyde Electrolysis

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We investigate size‐dependent CO selectivity on Ag nanoparticles, where optimized Ag loading achieves nearly 100% Faradaic Efficiency for CO at −100 mA·cm−2. In situ SERS and XPS reveal the crucial role of optimized loading in catalytic performance. The Ag/C catalyst further exhibits bifunctional activity, enabling efficient electrolysis of CO2 and ...
Venkata S. R. K. Tandava, Clara Große, Debabrata Bagchi, Zhenye Zhu, Suptish Ghosh, J. Niklas Hausmann, Carsten Walter, Rosario Suarez Anzorena, Catalina Elena Jimenez, Yasmin Lucero Cobos‐Becerra, Jack C. Q. Fletcher, Tobias Sontheimer, Michael Schwarze, Holger Dau, Matthias Driess, Marcus Bär, Prashanth W. Menezes   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chemical Recycling of Waste Wind-Turbine Blades Through Polymer Deconstruction and Upcycling. [PDF]

ChemSusChem
Shen A, Liu D, Liu Y, Lyu J, Li Z, Hao J, Bai Y, Zhou H, Mei Q.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Discontinuous Behavioral Responses to Recycling Laws and Plastic Water Bottle Deposits [PDF]

Economic theory predicts that individual recycling behavior gravitates toward extremes—either diligent recycling or no recycling at all. Using a nationally representative sample of 3,158 bottled water users, this article finds that this prediction is ...
Caroline Cecot, Jason Bell, Joel Huber, W. Kip Viscusi   +3 more
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