Polymers without petrochemicals: sustainable routes to conventional monomers

G Hayes, M Laurel, D MacKinnon, T Zhao… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Access to a wide range of plastic materials has been rationalized by the increased demand
from growing populations and the development of high-throughput production systems …

Progress and challenges in nitrous oxide decomposition and valorization

X Wu, J Du, Y Gao, H Wang, C Zhang… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Nitrous oxide (N2O) decomposition is increasingly acknowledged as a viable strategy for
mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and addressing ozone depletion, aligning significantly …

Electrocatalytic synthesis of adipic acid coupled with H2 production enhanced by a ligand modification strategy

Z Li, X Li, H Zhou, Y Xu, SM Xu, Y Ren, Y Yan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Adipic acid is an important building block of polymers, and is commercially produced by
thermo-catalytic oxidation of ketone-alcohol oil (a mixture of cyclohexanol and …

A novel electrode for value‐generating anode reactions in water electrolyzers at industrial current densities

C Wang, Y Wu, A Bodach, ML Krebs… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogen generated in electrolyzers is discussed as a key element in future energy
scenarios, but oxygen evolution as the standard anode reaction is a complex multi‐step …

A review on sustainable iron oxide nanoparticles: synthesis and application in organic catalysis and environmental remediation

DS Chaudhari, RP Upadhyay, GY Shinde… - Green …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Iron oxide nanoparticles have been intensively investigated owing to their huge potential as
diagnostic, therapeutic, and drug-carrier agents in biomedicine, sorbents in environmental …

Economics and global warming potential of a commercial-scale delignifying biorefinery based on co-solvent enhanced lignocellulosic fractionation to produce …

BC Klein, B Scheidemantle, RJ Hanes… - Energy & …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Harnessing the natural diversity of plant biomass for producing economically and
environmentally sustainable liquid fuels and high-value co-products entails the strategic …

Sustainable adipic acid production via paired electrolysis of lignin-derived phenolic compounds with water as hydrogen and oxygen sources

F Liu, X Gao, Z Guo, ECM Tse… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Adipic acid (AA) is an important feedstock for nylon polymers and is industrially produced
from fossil-derived aromatics via thermocatalysis. However, this process consumes …

Recent advances and perspectives on production of value-added organic acids through metabolic engineering

H Liu, Y **, R Zhang, Y Ning, Y Yu, P Xu, L Deng… - Biotechnology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Organic acids are important consumable materials with a wide range of applications in the
food, biopolymer and chemical industries. The global consumer organic acids market is …

Hydrodeoxygenation of potential platform chemicals derived from biomass to fuels and chemicals

K Tomishige, M Yabushita, J Cao, Y Nakagawa - Green Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Biomass valorization has emerged as a promising and sustainable means of
accommodating value-added chemicals. To produce such chemicals, various transformation …

Improved production of adipic acid from a high loading of corn stover via an efficient and mild combination pretreatment

D Xu, C Ma, M Wu, Y Deng, YC He - Bioresource Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Adipic acid is one kind of important organic dibasic acid, which has crucial role in
manufacturing plastics, lubricants, resins, fibers, etc. Using lignocellulose as feedstock for …