Industrially viable and selective catalytic system: simple and sustainable pathway for efficient degradation of waste polyester textiles

2025/01/01 by Yu Zhou, Jiaxing Zhang, Bowen Shen +5 · 1 voice
Materials Science · Engineering · #Textile materials and evaluations #Dyeing and Modifying Textile Fibers

paper · doi:10.1039/d5gc00248f

openalex publication_date 2025/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/04/09 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22

Abstract

A simple ethylene glycol catalytic system was developed for efficient PET degradation with a 99.63% conversion rate at mild conditions. The process remains effective at a 100 L scale, offering a sustainable solution for textile waste recycling.

Citations

• Structures and mechanisms of glycosyl hydrolases
• An engineered PET depolymerase to break down and recycle plastic bottles

Discussions

• ❇️𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐯𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦: 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐭� [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]

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