sustainable plastics

Schematic illustration of different strategies to process lignocellulose. (a) Two industrial routes of processing woodmeal, namely, the pulp industry or the lignin oil industry. (b) Mechanisms of hydrogen-atom transfer to break the ?-O-4 motif, which is abundant in native lignin. (c) Overview of our strategy to first depolymerize native lignin and then repolymerize the resulting oligomers using dynamic covalent cross-linkers. Credit: ACS Central Science (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.2c01257

Converting lignin into sustainable plastics that can be readily recycled through chemical means

Schematic illustration of different strategies to process lignocellulose. (a) Two industrial routes of processing woodmeal,