Publications
Fluoropolymer Composites from Partially Perfluoroalkylated Waste Polyethylene
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces,
2025
Population Balance Models for Catalytic Depolymerization: From Elementary Steps to Multiphase Reactors
Accounts of Chemical Research,
2025
One-Step Radical-Induced Synthesis of Graft Copolymers for Effective Compatibilization of Polyethylene and Polypropylene
JACS,
2025
Co-Recycling of Plastics and other Waste Materials
Nature Reviews Clean Technology,
2025
Molecular Level Understanding of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Depolymerization in Base/Alcohol Hybrid Systems
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces,
2025
Polymer Molecular Weight Distributions: A Tutorial on Transformations Between Number Density, Mass Density, and Linear/Logarithmic Axes
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research,
2025
Anionic Surfactants from Reactive Separation of Hydrocarbons Derived from Polyethylene Upcycling
Langmuir,
2025
Kinetic Models for Polymer Upcycling by Tag-and-Cut Strategies
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research,
2024
Investigation of Ethane Dehydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis on Pt(111), Pt(211), and Pt(100): Bayesian Quantification and Correction of DFT-Based Enthalpic and Entropic Uncertainties
ACS Catalysis,
2024
The Role of Size and Structure of Catalytic Active Sites in Polyolefin Hydrogenolysis
Chem Catalysis,
2024
Polyolefin Melt-Phase Effects on Alkane Hydrogenolysis over Pt Catalysts
Chem Catalysis,
2024
Catalytic Upcycling of Polyolefins
Chem Review,
2024
Insight into the Competitive Adsorption Behavior of Polymer Chains in Silica Nanopores by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering
Macromolecules,
2024
Observing the Surface Termination of LaScO3 Perovskite using Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
JACS,
2024
Dehydrogenated Polyethylene from Discarded Plastics as a Synthon for Functional Polyolefins
ACS Applied Polymer Materials,
2024
Mechanism of the Comonomer Effect in LLDPE from Ethylene/1-Hexene using a Quinoline-Amine Hafnium Catalyst
Macromolecules,
2024
Chemical Upcycling of Polyolefin Plastics Using Structurally Well-defined Catalysts
JACS Au,
2024
Conversion of Waste Poly(Vinyl Chloride) to Branched Polyethylene Mediated by Silylium Ions
Chemical Science,
2024
A Microkinetic Model for Isomerizing Ethenolysis
ACS Catalysis,
2024
Revisiting Poly(Vinyl Chloride) Reactivity in the Context of Chemical Recycling
Chem Sci,
2024
Supported Platinum Nanoparticles Catalyzed Carbon−Carbon Bond Cleavage of Polyolefins: Role of the Oxide Support Acidity
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces,
2024
Population Balance Equations for Reactive Separation in Polymer Upcycling
Langmuir,
2024
Probing Interactions between Adsorbed Polymers and γ‐Al2O3 Using Solid-State NMR
J. Phys. Chem. C,
2024
Catalytic Hydrogenolysis of Polyethylene Under Reactive Separation
ACS Catal.,
2024
Influence of Pore Length on Hydrogenolysis of Polyolefins within a Mesoporous Support Architecture
Journal of Physical Chemistry C,
2023
Benchmarking the Accuracy of Density Functional Theory against the Random Phase Approximation for the Ethane Dehydrogenation Network on Pt(111)
J. Phys. Chem. Lett.,
2023
Two-Step Conversion of Polyethylene into Recombinant Proteins Using a Microbial Platform
Microbial Cell Factories,
2023
Quantifying Synergy for Mixed End-Scission and Random-Scission Catalysts in Polymer Upcycling
React. Chem. Eng.,
2023
Quantitative Analyses of Products and Rates in Polyethylene Depolymerization and Upcycling
STAR Protocols,
2023
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
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
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
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
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