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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Oct 20.
Published in final edited form as: Science. 2023 Oct 19;382(6668):310–314. doi: 10.1126/science.adh3353

Fig. 3. Chemical recycling of multiblock polymers.

Fig. 3.

(A) Photographs of the chemical recycling of mixed multiblock polymers. (B) Representative stress-strain curves of virgin PE80 and repolymerized PE80 RP-1, PE80 RP-2, and PE80 RP-3. (C) Tensile strength and toughness of virgin PE80 and repolymerized PE80 RP-1, PE80 RP-2, and PE80 RP-3. Error bars represent standard deviations from the mean value of four to five samples. (D) A mixture of PP and PE60 as an example of a potential polyolefin waste stream. Photographs of mixed plastics in toluene (left), reaction after 72 hours (middle), and the separated PP, HO-HB-PH, and HO-SB-OH (right). See supplementary materials for details.