Search Results
Meet one of the current or past CMI student researchers
Our plastic waste can be used as raw material for detergents, thanks to an improved catalytic method
But, for researchers at UC Santa Barbara, one person’s single-use packaging is another person’s useful raw material. In a paper published in the journal Chem, they have reimagined the value of single-use plastics, with improvements to an innovative process that can turn polyolefins, the most common type of polymer in single-use packaging, into valuable alkylaromatics — molecules that underlie surfactants, the active components of detergents and other useful chemicals.
The iCOUP paper, "Bifunctional tandem catalytic upcycling of polyethylene to surfactant-range alkylaromatics," published in the journal Chem, has ten mentions across three different URLs.
Going forward, the Critical Materials Institute will be known as the Critical Materials Innovation Hub
Change Management Specialist, Planning and Performance
The Newsletter for Ames National Laboratory Employees