First step towards more effective plastic recycling
The plastics industry already has a long history of producing various types of polymers, those large molecules that are made up of smaller units called monomers, which are joined together by covalent bonds forming long chains of high molecular weight, examples of which are materials such as polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene and polyurethane, among others, being today the different synthetic polymers the basis of all kinds of plastic materials.
One option for recycling plastics is the recovery of monomers. Source: @emiliomoron, contains a public domain image.
However, although the formation of these macromolecules through polymerization, which is basically assembling a long chain through the repetition of simple molecular units, is quite well known and has been very well investigated, giving us the large number of plastic materials that we know; The truth is that performing the reverse process and separating these macromolecules into their individual units or blocks, a process called depolymerization, has been little studied, so there is no efficient method to recover these individual building blocks, or monomers.
Example of the polymerization of styrene. Source: image made in powerpoint .
Certainly there are several reasons why scientists have not paid much attention to the depolymerization process, on the one hand it is an extremely complex process to break the chains that bind the monomers, since it depends on the type of compound and the process used in its manufacture, In addition to the fact that this reverse process requires much more energy than that used in the manufacture of the starting compound, and current processes provide lower quality products, making it only usable in lower value products, which has led to the exploration of this option is economically unfeasible.
But a team of polymer materials researchers at ETH Zurich has managed to break down polymers into their individual components and recover more than 90% of them, which would be an important step on the way to a true plastics recycling method. The results of the study have just been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Societycall_made, and in said study, this team reports having achieved a catalyst-free depolymerization of several linear polymethacrylates, decomposing almost 92% of them into their constituent monomers, being able to be recycled to be used in other applications.
The new method allows the depolymerization of the monomers and their polymerization again. Source: image made in powerpoint .
The polymers that were broken down were produced by a new polymerization technique called reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization, a method that is attracting much interest in the industry as it produces polymer chains with a uniform length, and through this method, this group of researchers managed to locate radicals at the end of the polymerization chain, which allowed depolymerization to be triggered.
The advantage of this new method is that the recovered monomers can be used to reconstruct the same polymer from which they were obtained or an insoluble gel that can also be subjected to depolymerization, and the products created from these have the same characteristics as the original ones. .
Although much more research is still needed to develop the method and scale it to an industrial level, it already offers some hope in the search for solutions for plastic pollution, even this would be a long-term solution, since it would be a way to recover the polymer monomers manufactured in this way, not being used for the amount of plastic waste that already pollutes our environment. But we must bear in mind that these are the first steps towards the production of truly recyclable plastics, compared to the number of studies that have only addressed polymerization methods without contemplating the reverse process to recover these materials.
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I cant prove @battleaxe is the one directly doing the V2K and RNM. Doing it requires more than one person at the least. It cant be done alone. She cant prove she is not one of the ones doing V2K because she cant and could care less. I guarantee she knows this is going around and still wont prove it because she cant. Many of us here can prove what they have been doing to survive the past 5 years. What does she live off of? It definitely isnt in public view here.
I was drugged in my home covertly, it ended badly. They have been trying to kill me using RNM with applied V2K mental games while revealing as many accessories to the crime as they can. I bet nobody does anything at all. Ask @battleaxe to prove it. I bet she wont. Pretty serious accusations to just blow off and leave the crypto community hanging in fear of this danger.
They want me to believe the V2K and RNM in me is being broadcast from her location. And what the fuck is "HOMELAND SECURITY" doing about this shit? I think stumbling over their own dicks maybe? Just like they did and are doing with the Havana Syndrome. They should start by looking at the communications between the top witnesses of Hive and the connection to @fyrstikken groups. Google his fucking name and see where his other interests lie around at least once maybe? The connections between @fyrstikken groups and all the exchanges built for Hive? Bet that would reveal some crazy ball less nutty shit. Homeland security should start preparing for their own incarcerations seeing how sloppy this was done. Patriot act my ass. Think we are really fools? Bad position your not getting out of. Dont be last to blow the whistle. Who will protect you?
People in and around @fyrstikkens groups are reckless and should have shown the proper media what they had before taking me hostage for 5 long torturing years and counting. That is a long time to wait for someone to die.
What would you say while having a gun pointed at your head from an undisclosed location? Have people find it? My hands are tied while they play like children with a gun to my head. Its a terrorist act on American soil while some yawn and say its not real or Im a mental case. Many know its real. This is an ignored detrimental to humanity domestic threat. Ask informed soldiers in the American military what their oath is and why nothing is being done. Nobody has I guess. Maybe someone told ill informed soldiers they cant protect America from military leaders in control that have ill intent. How do we protect locked up soldiers prevented from telling the truth from being treated as criminals? Not to mention civilians we let our leaders treat the same way. https://ecency.com/fyrstikken/@fairandbalanced/i-am-the-only-motherfucker-on-the-internet-pointing-to-a-direct-source-for-voice-to-skull-electronic-terrorism-terrorism
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