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Abstract
Several concurrent developments are shaping the future of plastics. A transition to a sustainable plastics system requires not only a shift to fossil-free feedstock and energy to produce the carbon-neutral building blocks for polymers used in plastics, but also a rational design of the polymers with both desired material properties for functionality and features facilitating their recyclability. Biotechnology has an important role in producing polymer building blocks from renewable feedstocks, and also shows potential for recycling of polymers. Here, we present strategies for improving the performance and recyclability of the polymers, for enhancing degradability to monomers, and for improving chemical recyclability by designing polymers with different chemical functionalities.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 50-67 |
| Journal | Trends in Biotechnology |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 2019 May 28 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Polymer Technologies
Free keywords
- biobased plastics
- biodegradability
- chemical recycling
- circular economy
- glass transition temperature
- polymer design
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STEPS: STEPS – Sustainable Plastics and Transition Pathways, Phase 1
Generosi, J. (Project coordinator), Hatti-Kaul, R. (PI), Pyo, S.-H. (Researcher), Zhang, B. (PI), Turner, C. (Researcher), Rodriguez Meizoso, I. (Researcher), Wallberg, O. (Researcher), Hulteberg, C. (CoI), Diegel, O. (Researcher), Ristinmaa, M. (Researcher), Nilsson, L. J. (PI), Palm, E. (Research student), Ericsson, K. (Researcher), Hansen, T. (CoI), Klintman, M. (Researcher), Stripple, J. (Researcher), Bauer, F. (Researcher), Madsen, S. (PI), Jannasch, P. (Researcher), Egan, N. (Project communication officer), Nielsen, T. (Researcher), Holmberg, K. (Research assistant), Svantesson, A. (Research assistant), Hall, S. (Researcher), Mahmoud, S. (Researcher), Englund Örn, O. (Research student), Mankar, S. (Research student), Warlin, N. (Research student), Valsange, N. (Research student), Sanku, M. (Research student), Hasselbalch, J. (Researcher), Sjölin, M. (Research student), Hansen, T. (Researcher), Chen, L. (Research student), Nordin, A. (Researcher), Engqvist, J. (Research student), Garcia Gonzalez, N. (Researcher), Newson, W. R. (Researcher), Johansson, E. (Researcher), Kuktaite, R. (Researcher), Muneer, F. (Researcher), Nilsson , E. (Researcher), Guo, Z. (Researcher), Ahlqvist, J. (Administrator) & Peric, S. (Administrator)
MISTRA, Swedish foundation for strategic environmental research
2016/09/01 → 2020/08/31
Project: Research
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