Combining organic and inorganic wastes to form metal-organic frameworks

• Main Authors: Lagae-Capelle, Eléonore, Cognet, Marine, Madhavi, Srinivasan, Carboni, Michaël, Meyer, Daniel
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Materials::Energy materials; Science::Chemistry::Organic chemistry; Recycling Batteries; Recycling Plastic Bottles
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/142473
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper reports a simple method to recycle plastic-bottle and Li-ion-battery waste in one process by forming valuable coordination polymers (metal-organic frameworks, MOFs). Poly(ethylene terephthalate) from plastic bottles was depolymerized to produce an organic ligand source (terephthalate), an...