Publications
Treasuring Trash: Pt/SrTiO3 Catalysts Process Plastic Waste into High-Value Materials
Matter,
2023
Two Mesoporous Domains Are Better Than One for Catalytic Deconstruction of Polyolefins
JACS,
2023
Modeling the Effect of Surface Platinum-Tin Alloys on Propane Dehydrogenation on Platinum-Tin Catalysts
ACS Catalysis,
2023
Mass Transfer in Catalytic Depolymerization: External Effectiveness Factors and Serendipitous Processivity in Stagnant and Stirred Melts
Chemical Engineering Journal,
2023
Bifunctional Tandem Catalytic Upcycling of Polyethylene to Surfactant-Range Alkylaromatics
Chem,
2023
Mechanistic Insights Into Processive Polyethylene Hydrogenolysis through In Situ NMR
Macromolecules,
2023
Molecular-Weight-Dependent Infiltration and Adsorption of Polymers into Nanochannels
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces,
2023
Polyethylene Incorporating Diels-Alder Comonomers: A “Trojan Horse” Strategy for Chemically Recyclable Polyolefins
Communication,
2023
Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of SrTiO3 Nanocuboids without TiCl4
Small Science,
2023
Double-Resonance 17O NMR Experiments Reveal Unique Configurational Information for Surface Organometallic Complexes
Chemical Communications,
2023
Ultrasmall Amorphous Zirconia Nanoparticles Catalyse Polyolefin Hydrogenolysis
Nature Catalysis,
2023
Coarse-Grained Modeling of Polymer Cleavage within a Porous Catalytic Support
ACS Macro Lett.,
2023
Zirconium-Catalyzed C-H Alumination of Polyolefins, Paraffins, and Methane
J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
2023
Polyethylene in Dead-End Silica Nanopores: Forces and Mobility from Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Exchange Spectroscopy Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
J. Phys. Chem. C,
2022
Catalytic Chemical Recycling of Post-Consumer Polyethylene
J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
2022
Synthesis of Platinum Nanoparticles on Strontium Titanate Nanocuboids via Surface Organometallic Grafting for the Catalytic Hydrogenolysis of Plastic Waste
J. Mater. Chem. A,
2022
Active-Site Determination and Mechanistic Insights in a MOF-Supported Polymerization Catalyst
J. Phys. Chem. C.,
2022
Population Balance Models for Polymer Upcycling: Signatures of the Mechanism in the Molecular Weight Evolution
J. Mat. Chem. A,
2022
Processive Depolymerization Catalysts: A Population Balance Model for Chemistry’s “While” Loop
ACS Catalysis,
2022
Effect of Macro- and Microstructures on Catalytic Hydrogenolysis of Polyolefins
Macromolecules,
2022
Mason-Weaver Theory: Revised and Extended for a Semi-Infinite Domain
AIP Advances,
2022
Chemically Recyclable Ester-Linked Polypropylene
J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
2022
Size-Controlled Nanoparticles Embedded in a Mesoporous Architecture Leading to Efficient and Selective Hydrogenolysis of Polyolefins
JACS,
2022
Synthesis and Characterization of Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles Loaded with Pt Catalysts
Catalysts,
2022
Determining the Three-Dimensional Structures of Silica-Supported Metal Complexes from the Ground Up
Inorganic Chemistry,
2021
Scalable Synthesis of Pt/SrTiO3 Hydrogenolysis Catalysts in Pursuit of Manufacturing-Relevant Waste Plastic Solutions
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces,
2021
Chemical Upcycling of Polyethylene to Value-Added α,ω-Divinyl-Functionalized Oligomers
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering,
2021
Multiscale Models for Fibril Formation: Rare Events Methods, Microkinetic Models, and Population Balances
Life,
2021
Synthetic Lubricants Derived from Plastic Waste and their Tribological Performance
ChemSusChem,
2021
Catalytic Carbon–Carbon Bond Cleavage and Carbon-Element Bond Formation Give New Life for Polyolefins as Biodegradable Surfactants
Chem,
2021
Publications, Catalysis for the Upcycling of Polymers
- Catalytic Upcycling of High-Density Polyethylene via a Processive Mechanism
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Akalanka Tennakoon, Xun Wu, Alexander. L. Paterson, Smita Patnaik, Yuchen Pei, Anne M. LaPointe, Salai C. Ammal, Ryan A. Hackler, Andreas Heyden, Igor I. Slowing, Geoffrey W. Coates, Massimiliano Delferro, Baron Peters, Wenyu Huang, Aaron D. Sadow, Frédéric A. Perras. Nat. Catal. 2020, 893-901. DOI: 10.1038/s41929-020-00519-4
- Polyethylene Upcycling to Long-Chain Alkylaromatics by Tandem Hydrogenolysis/Aromatization
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Fan Zhang, Manhao Zeng, Ryan D. Yappert, Jiakai Sun, Yu-Hsuan Lee, Anne M. LaPointe, Baron Peters, Mahdi M. Abu-Omar, Susannah L. Scott. Science 2020, 437-441. DOI: 10.1126/science.abc5441
- Tandem Catalysts for Polyethylene Upcycling: A Simple Kinetic Model
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Damien Guironnet and Baron Peters; J. Phys. Chem. A 2020, 3935-3942. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c01363
- Upcycling Single-Use Polyethylene into High-Quality Liquid Products
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Gokhan Celik, Robert M. Kennedy, Ryan A. Hackler, Magali Ferrandon, Akalanka Tennakoon, Smita Patnaik, Anne M. LaPointe, Salai C. Ammal, Andreas Heyden, Frédéric A. Perras, Marek Pruski, Susannah L. Scott, Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier, Aaron D. Sadow, and Massimiliano Delferro; ACS Cent. Sci. 2019, 1795–1803. DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.9b00722