The chemistry of chemical recycling of solid plastic waste via pyrolysis and gasification: State-of-the-art, challenges, and future directions

O Dogu, M Pelucchi, R Van de Vijver… - Progress in Energy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chemical recycling of solid plastic waste (SPW) is a paramount opportunity to reduce marine
and land pollution and to enable the incorporation of the circular economy principle in …

Precision polymer synthesis by controlled radical polymerization: Fusing the progress from polymer chemistry and reaction engineering

YN Zhou, JJ Li, TT Wang, YY Wu, ZH Luo - Progress in Polymer Science, 2022 - Elsevier
During the first 100 years of polymer science, controlled radical polymerization (also
recommended as reversible deactivation radical polymerization) is undoubtedly a …

Rational design of tapered multiblock copolymers for thermoplastic elastomers

M Steube, T Johann, RD Barent, AHE Mueller… - Progress in Polymer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) combine the features of vulcanized thermoset rubbers and
thermoplastic materials in their phase-separated microdomain structure. As a consequence …

Role of external field in polymerization: mechanism and kinetics

YN Zhou, JJ Li, YY Wu, ZH Luo - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The past decades have witnessed an increasing interest in develo** advanced
polymerization techniques subjected to external fields. Various physical modulations, such …

Progress in reaction mechanisms and reactor technologies for thermochemical recycling of poly (methyl methacrylate)

EKC Moens, K De Smit, YW Marien, AD Trigilio… - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Chemical or feedstock recycling of poly (methyl methacrylate)(PMMA) by thermal
degradation is an important societal challenge to enable polymer circularity. The annual …

The strength of multi-scale modeling to unveil the complexity of radical polymerization

DR D'hooge, PHM Van Steenberge… - Progress in Polymer …, 2016 - Elsevier
The strength of multi-scale modeling to support the fundamental understanding and design
of radical polymerization processes is illustrated, considering both controlled and free …

Gillespie-driven kinetic Monte Carlo algorithms to model events for bulk or solution (bio) chemical systems containing elemental and distributed species

AD Trigilio, YW Marien… - Industrial & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Stochastic modeling techniques have emerged as a powerful tool to study the time evolution
of processes in many research fields including (bio) chemical engineering and biology. One …

When polymer reaction engineers play dice: applications of Monte Carlo models in PRE

ALT Brandao, JBP Soares, JC Pinto… - Macromolecular …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Monte Carlo methods are heuristic algorithms that use probabilities to select an outcome
among several possible events in a given process. Monte Carlo methods are useful in …

Coupled matrix kinetic Monte Carlo simulations applied for advanced understanding of polymer grafting kinetics

FL Figueira, YY Wu, YN Zhou, ZH Luo… - Reaction Chemistry & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
One of the challenges for modelling of polymerization kinetics is the detailed description of
the molecular build-up of both linear and non-linear chains, specifically those with many …

Model-based design of the polymer microstructure: bridging the gap between polymer chemistry and engineering

DR D'hooge, PHM Van Steenberge, P Derboven… - Polymer …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The performance of polymeric materials depends strongly on the control over the polymer
microstructure during the synthesis step. In this review, attention is paid to the potential of …