触媒化学融合研究センター・特別講演セミナー

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日時：2023年12月11日（月）15：30～17：00
場所：産総研つくば中央5群第4会議室（6603室）

＜講演概要＞

 15：30～17：00
◆  ”Polymer Redesign for Recycling and the Circular Economy”
＜講師＞ Prof. Dr. Brett Helms(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory）

 One of the goals of a circular economy is to design-out waste by re-orienting industry around materials that can be reused and recycled. For polymers used in plastics, elastomers, and thermosets, those in use today were never designed to be recycled. As a result, they have accumulated in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems throughout the world in such alarming quantities that a legally-binding global plastics treaty is under development, regulating future plastics use. If circularity is to be realized, new polymer chemistries are needed for deconstructing both simple and complex products, such that monomers, additives, fillers, and other materials may be reused without loss in performance or aesthetics. I will describe our efforts to address these challenges using polydiketoenamineresins (PDK), which undergo reversible polymerization using atom-and energy-efficient processes. PDK resins lay the groundwork for how to commodify polymers as highly valuable, renewable resources for a circular economy.

 特別講演セミナーチラシ

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