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What’s hot in science and engineering? Research news for the day of May 09, 2022

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Mon, 09 May 2022
Method reduces plastic bottles to basic components suitable for reuse

Metal-organic framework used to degrade plastics

Discarded plastic bottles abound. Simple and effective methods to recycle, repurpose or reuse the omnipresent debris do not. Chemists at Northwestern University, …

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Mon, 09 May 2022
Chemists harness the power of the sun to upcycle plastic waste

Light, oxygen and a catalyst convert polystyrene into benzoic acid

Polystyrene winds up in landfills and makes up about a third of landfill waste across the globe. A team of chemists at Cornell University, partially supported by a …

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