{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Yao L"],"funding":["National Science Foundation"],"pagination":["885"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8850602"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["13(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["The evergrowing plastic production and the caused concerns of plastic waste accumulation have stimulated the need for waste plastic chemical recycling/valorization. Current methods suffer from harsh reaction conditions and long reaction time. Herein we demonstrate a non-thermal plasma-assisted method for rapid hydrogenolysis of polystyrene (PS) at ambient temperature and atmospheric pressure, generating high yield (>40 wt%) of C<sub>1</sub>-C<sub>3</sub> hydrocarbons and ethylene being the dominant gas product (Selectivity of ethylene, S<sub>C2H4</sub> > 70%) within ~10 min. The fast reaction kinetics is attributed to highly active hydrogen plasma, which can effectively break bonds in polymer and initiate hydrogenolysis under mild condition. Efficient hydrogenolysis of post-consumer PS mat"],"journal":["Nature communications"],"pubmed_title":["Non-thermal plasma-assisted rapid hydrogenolysis of polystyrene to high yield ethylene."],"pmcid":["PMC8850602"],"funding_grant_id":["2132178"],"pubmed_authors":["Yao L","Chuang SSC","Li J","Miyoshi T","King J","Ma J","Wu D","Peng Z","Xie R"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Non-thermal plasma-assisted rapid hydrogenolysis of polystyrene to high yield ethylene.","description":"The evergrowing plastic production and the caused concerns of plastic waste accumulation have stimulated the need for waste plastic chemical recycling/valorization. Current methods suffer from harsh reaction conditions and long reaction time. Herein we demonstrate a non-thermal plasma-assisted method for rapid hydrogenolysis of polystyrene (PS) at ambient temperature and atmospheric pressure, generating high yield (>40 wt%) of C<sub>1</sub>-C<sub>3</sub> hydrocarbons and ethylene being the dominant gas product (Selectivity of ethylene, S<sub>C2H4</sub> > 70%) within ~10 min. The fast reaction kinetics is attributed to highly active hydrogen plasma, which can effectively break bonds in polymer and initiate hydrogenolysis under mild condition. Efficient hydrogenolysis of post-consumer PS mat","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Feb","modification":"2025-04-21T23:16:02.585Z","creation":"2025-04-05T19:05:15.507Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8850602","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35173177"],"doi":["10.1038/s41467-022-28563-7"]}}