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Degradation of plastic materials into terephthalic acid (tpa), ethylene glycol and/or other monomers that form the plastic materials
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To address the rising demand for plastics, it is essential to create new types of polymers that are both highly recyclable and emit minimal amounts of greenhouse gases. These plastics should be derived from readily available, renewable feedstocks. Such eff ...
EPFL2023A method
A method of manufacturing a fibre comprising a lined channel, using a draw apparatus, the method comprising: providing a preform, comprising a channel extending through the preform, to the draw apparatus; feeding a liner into the channel; heating a portion ...
2022Material removing tool and method for designing the same
Jean-François Molinari, Son-Jonathan Pham-Ba
The invention relates to a material removing tool, such as an ice cream scoop, and method for designing the same. The material removing tool has a shape optimized to minimize the amount of work the user has to provide in order to form and remove a piece of ...
2022Recycling of Load-Bearing 3D Printable Double Network Granular Hydrogels
Esther Amstad, Matteo Hirsch, Alvaro Lino Boris Charlet, Sanjay Phileas Schreiber
Sustainable materials, such as recyclable polymers, become increasingly important as they are often environmentally friendlier than their one-time-use counterparts. In parallel, the trend toward more customized products demands for fast prototyping methods ...
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022Inferring the flow properties of epithelial tissues from their geometry
Matthieu Wyart, Marko Popovic, Valentin Camille Druelle
Amorphous materials exhibit complex material properties with strongly nonlinear behaviors. Below a yield stress they behave as plastic solids, while they start to yield above a critical stress sigma(c). A key quantity controlling plasticity which is, howev ...
IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021Direct conversion of plastic materials into methane and liquid fuels
Paul Joseph Dyson, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Wei-Tse Lee
The invention relates to a method for direct conversion of plastic materials into methane and/or liquid fuel and use of ruthenium-modified zeolite to catalyse this conversion. ...
2020Synthetic Studies toward Amanita Phalloides Toxins
Philipp Georg Werner Seeberger
Amatoxins are ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified bicyclic octapeptides biosynthesized by the deadly basidiomycete fungus Amanita phalloides. Amongst this group, alpha-amanitin is the most widely known toxin and is currently under inv ...
EPFL2020Sustainable, Reshapable Surfactant-Polyelectrolyte Plastics Employing Water as a Plasticizer
Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Zhangjun Huang, Haiyan Jia
Natural polymers such as those present in foods contain abundant noncovalent intra- and intermolecular interactions, notably hydrogen bonds, which make them rigid when dry, but on exposure to water soften, due to disruption of these interactions. This soft ...
2019Deoxygenative trifluoromethylthiolation of carboxylic acids
Xile Hu, Runze Mao, Srikrishna Bera, Alexis Baptiste Cheseaux
Here we describe a deoxygenative trifluoromethylthiolation method that yields trifluoromethyl thioesters from readily available carboxylic acids. The method is built upon an "umpolung" strategy where triphenylphosphine is used to first activate an electrop ...
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019Recherche de fragments de plastique dans les sédiments profonds du Léman
Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Florian Faure
A growing number of studies focusing on microplastics (plastic particles smaller than 5 mm) show this issue affects all environmental matrices and compartments, and suspicions grow as to their toxicity. In this context, the Commission Internationale pour l ...
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