Journal of Modern Polymer Chemistry and Materials

The field of polymer science and engineering has given birth to many interesting chemical structures and powerful, economical materials. Plastics have taken the world by storm in the last century and are used in all aspects of our lives. However, the rise of these synthetic polymers, which form the basis of plastics, has led to many serious environmental problems, and society is faced with the enormous challenge of recycling.

Innovation Forever Publishing presents two recent studies on the recycling and degradation of polymeric chemical materials to you.

To solve the plastics challenge, researchers have identified the need to develop 'recycling' systems in which the source materials used to produce plastics are processed and recycled and then fully recycled. At Tokyo Institute of Technology, a team of scientists led by Professor Hideyuki Otsuka is pioneering a new concept.

In their new environmentally friendly process, plastics produced from biomass are chemically recycled back into fertiliser. The research will be published in Green Chemistry, a journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry that focuses on innovative research into sustainable and eco-friendly technologies. The overall results of this research demonstrate the feasibility of developing a plastic fertiliser system that can help combat pollution and resource depletion.

Another study was on photodegradable polyethylene. The subject of a professor at the University of Konstanz in Germany is that nickel complexes ligated with phosphinolates can catalyse the non-alternating copolymerisation of ethylene with carbon monoxide. The incorporation of low-density individual in-chain ketone groups into polyethylene chains with high molecular weights allows the desired material properties to be maintained at the same time. When processed by conventional injection moulding techniques, it maintains tensile properties in line with those of standard HDPE, while also being photodegradable. The results are published in the latest issue of Science.

It reveals some of the future directions regarding environmental protection and recycling. Do you want to publish your own research? Journal of Modern Polymer Chemistry and Materials, our publisher's journal, is dedicated to providing an online platform for academic communication between researchers, engineers and readers in the field of polymer chemistry and materials. Innovation Forever has recently been awarded an SSL certificate to provide you with reliable security, so place your full trust in us.

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