Circularity of Plastics: Sustainability, Emerging Materials, and Valorization of Waste Plastic takes an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to circularity and sustainability in plastics, with an emphasis on plastic waste and end-of-life treatment and options for recycling, re-use, valorization and development of biomass-based polymers. The book introduces key concepts of sustainable materials, the circular economy, and lifecycle assessment, and discusses challenges in the valorization of waste. Other sections cover the upcycling of waste plastic into new materials and fuels, with dedicated chapters exploring state-of-the-art techniques for conversion to new sustainable polymers, fuel, fine chemicals and carbon nanomaterials.
Emerging technologies used to produce functional polymers from renewable feedstocks, including CO2, biomass, natural polymers, polylactic acid (PLA), and polyhydroxyalkanoate-based materials (PHAs) are then explored, with a final chapter focusing on applications of sustainable materials, challenges, and future perspectives. This is a valuable resource for researchers, scientists, engineers, R&D professionals, and advanced students from a range of disciplines and backgrounds, with an interest in sustainable materials, circularity in plastics, and polymer waste and valorization.
Circularity of Plastics: Sustainability, Emerging Materials, and Valorization of Waste Plastic takes an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to circularity and sustainability in plastics, with an emphasis on plastic waste and end-of-life treatment and options for recycling, re-use, valorization and development of biomass-based polymers. The book introduces key concepts of sustainable materials, the circular economy, and lifecycle assessment, and discusses challenges in the valorization of waste. Other sections cover the upcycling of waste plastic into new materials and fuels, with dedicated chapters exploring state-of-the-art techniques for conversion to new sustainable polymers, fuel, fine chemicals and carbon nanomaterials.
Emerging technologies used to produce functional polymers from renewable feedstocks, including CO2, biomass, natural polymers, polylactic acid (PLA), and polyhydroxyalkanoate-based materials (PHAs) are then explored, with a final chapter focusing on applications of sustainable materials, challenges, and future perspectives. This is a valuable resource for researchers, scientists, engineers, R&D professionals, and advanced students from a range of disciplines and backgrounds, with an interest in sustainable materials, circularity in plastics, and polymer waste and valorization.
1 Sustainable material management for a circular plastics
economy
SECTION 1 Valorization of waste plastics into new materials and
fuels
2 Sustainable chemical recycling of plastic waste into new
polymers
3 Converting plastic waste to fuel and fine chemicals
4 Upcycling of waste plastics to carbon nanomaterials
SECTION 2 Functional polymers from sustainable and renewable
resources
5 Functional polymers from CO2 as feedstock
6 Functional polymers from biomass-based monomers
7 New functional materials from lignocellulosic biomass
8 Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) as a building block for a circular
economy
9 Poly(hydroxyalkanoates) (PHAs) based circular materials for a
sustainable future
10 Sustainable materials applications: Current challenges and
future perspectives
Dr. Zibiao Li obtained his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from
National University of Singapore (NUS). Currently, he is working as
a senior research scientist at the Institute of Materials Research
and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR, Singapore. He is currently the Head
of Advanced Sustainable Materials Department in IMRE. His research
interests are focused on biodegradable functional polymeric
materials design, structural properties investigations and their
hybrid fabrications for high performance applications in consumer
care and healthcare. He has published over 120 journal papers, 2
books, 5 book chapters, 15 technological disclosures / Patents,
mainly in the area of biodegradable and sustainable materials. Dr
Jason Y. C. Lim obtained his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the
University of Oxford, U.K. Thereafter, he obtained a postdoctoral
position at the same institute under the supervision of Professor
Charlotte K. Williams, working on metal-free organocatalysis for
the synthesis of polylactic acid, a leading biopolymer with vast
commercial applications in today’s world. His current research
interests at IMRE, Singapore, include development of novel
catalysts to replace toxic heavy-metal catalysts used for polymer
synthesis, chemical valorisation and upcycling of waste plastics,
development of new sustainable polymers for biomedical
applications, as well as ion sensors for agritech nutrient
monitoring to reduce over-application of fertilisers. At the time
of writing, he has authored/ co-authored 25 peer-reviewed papers in
top chemistry and materials science journals. Dr Chen-Gang Wang
obtained his Ph.D. in organic and polymeric materials under the
supervision of Professor Toshikazu Takata from Tokyo Institute of
Technology, Japan. After working in chemical industry for two
years, he moved to Nanyang Technological University as a research
fellow in Professor Atsushi Goto’s group and promoted to senior
research fellow at 2019. His current position is a research
scientist in Advanced Sustainable Materials Department in
IMRE/A*STAR, Singapore.
His research expertise focuses primarily on polymer science and
materials. His current research interests include development of
biomass-based polymers and the polymerization methods, design and
synthesis of degradable/decomposable polymers, and creation of
structurally complex polymer materials for advanced applications.
He has (co)authored 23 peer-reviewed papers in top chemistry and
materials science journals.
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