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Domain-adapted discovery of PET depolymerisation routes using in-house curated scientific literature

Dawn Sivan, ORCID logo abc   Saima Zafar,ab   K. Satheesh Kumar,c   T. K. Manoj Kumar,c   Kohbalan Moorthy,d   Izan Izwan Misnon,ab   Chun-Chen Yang ORCID logo ef  and  Rajan Jose ORCID logo *abe  

* Corresponding authors

a Center for Advanced Intelligent Materials, Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah, Gambang, Pahang, Malaysia
E-mail: rjose@umpsa.edu.my

b Faculty of Industrial Sciences and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah, Gambang, Pahang, Malaysia

c Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology (Digital University Kerala), Thiruvananthapuram, 695317 Kerala, India

d Faculty of Computing, Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah, Pekan, Pahang, Malaysia

e Battery Research Center of Green Energy, Ming Chi University of Technology, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China
E-mail: rjose@mail.mcut.edu.tw

f Department of Chemical Engineering, Ming Chi University of Technology, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China

Abstract

Curated chemical literature combined with a domain-adapted language model is shown to generate experimentally feasible PET depolymerisation pathways. This work establishes a practical data-guided approach for evaluating and discovering viable routes in plastic waste management.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D6CC00581K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
28 Jan 2026
Accepted
11 Mar 2026
First published
17 Mar 2026

Chem. Commun., 2026, Advance Article

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Domain-adapted discovery of PET depolymerisation routes using in-house curated scientific literature

D. Sivan, S. Zafar, K. S. Kumar, T. K. M. Kumar, K. Moorthy, I. I. Misnon, C. Yang and R. Jose, Chem. Commun., 2026, Advance Article , DOI: 10.1039/D6CC00581K

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