Chemical and biological catalysis for plastics recycling and upcycling

LD Ellis, NA Rorrer, KP Sullivan, M Otto… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
Plastics pollution is causing an environmental crisis, prompting the development of new
approaches for recycling, and upcycling. Here, we review challenges and opportunities in …

Enzymes' power for plastics degradation

V Tournier, S Duquesne, F Guillamot… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Plastics are everywhere in our modern way of living, and their production keeps increasing
every year, causing major environmental concerns. Nowadays, the end-of-life management …

AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models

M Varadi, S Anyango, M Deshpande, S Nair… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AlphaFold DB, https://alphafold. ebi. ac.
uk) is an openly accessible, extensive database of high-accuracy protein-structure …

Progress and perspective for conversion of plastic wastes into valuable chemicals

K Zheng, Y Wu, Z Hu, S Wang, X Jiao, J Zhu… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Today, discarded plastics in nature have caused serious “white pollution”, however these
plastic wastes contain abundant carbon resources that could serve as the feedstock to …

Expanding plastics recycling technologies: chemical aspects, technology status and challenges

H Li, HA Aguirre-Villegas, RD Allen, X Bai… - Green …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Less than 10% of the plastics generated globally are recycled, while the rest are incinerated,
accumulated in landfills, or leak into the environment. New technologies are emerging to …

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 …

Reducing environmental plastic pollution by designing polymer materials for managed end-of-life

KL Law, R Narayan - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Plastics are a ubiquitous class of synthetic polymer materials used in virtually all commercial
and industrial sectors. The majority of global plastics consists of polymers with carbon …

Chemolytic depolymerisation of PET: a review

E Barnard, JJR Arias, W Thielemans - Green Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Develo** new, alternative ways to recycle plastics is an important and pressing challenge
for industry and academy, given its significant impact on CO2 emissions as well as …

Directed evolution of an efficient and thermostable PET depolymerase

EL Bell, R Smithson, S Kilbride, J Foster, FJ Hardy… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
The recent discovery of Is PETase, a hydrolytic enzyme that can deconstruct poly (ethylene
terephthalate)(PET), has sparked great interest in biocatalytic approaches to recycle …

Discovery and mechanism-guided engineering of BHET hydrolases for improved PET recycling and upcycling

A Li, Y Sheng, H Cui, M Wang, L Wu, Y Song… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Although considerable research achievements have been made to address the plastic crisis
using enzymes, their applications are limited due to incomplete degradation and low …