Fast Depolymerization of PET Bottle Mediated by Microwave Pre-Treatment and An Engineered PETase.

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Guo B, Lopez-Lorenzo X, Fang Y, Bäckström E, Capezza AJ, Vanga SR, Furó I, Hakkarainen M, Syrén PO

ChemSusChem 16 (18) e202301237 [2023-09-22; online 2023-09-07]

Invited for this month's cover is the groups of Prof. Minna Hakkarainen, Prof. István Furó and Assoc. Prof. Per-Olof Syrén at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The image shows how microwave irradiation is an efficient pre-treatment method of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) for subsequent biocatalytic depolymerization. The Research Article itself is available at 10.1002/cssc.202300742.

PubMed 37679097

DOI 10.1002/cssc.202301237

Crossref 10.1002/cssc.202301237