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Direct amination of poly(p-phenylene oxide) to substituted anilines over bimetallic Pd–Ru catalysts

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Integration of upcycling and closed-loop recycling through alternative cyclization–depolymerization

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Toward a Circular Economy of Heteroatom Containing Plastics: A Focus on Heterogeneous Catalysis in Recycling

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Upcycling of polyphenylene oxide into 2,6-dimethyl aniline via depolymerization and amination over a Pt/CeO2 catalyst

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Discovery and mechanism-guided engineering of BHET hydrolases for improved PET recycling and upcycling

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Enhanced Production of Liquid Alkanes from Waste Polyethylene via the Electronic Effect‐Favored Csecondary−Csecondary Bond Cleavage

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Efficient recycling of polyamide 6 to ε-caprolactam under mild conditions

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Nanocatalytic upcycling of plastic waste: Advances in selective conversion technologies for sustainable high-value products recovery

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Full Recovery of Epoxy Resin Wastes into Bisphenol A and Epoxy Monomers via Lewis Acid

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Plastic Waste Valorization by Leveraging Multidisciplinary Catalytic Technologies

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Hydroxylation-Depolymerization of Oxyphenylene-Based Super Engineering Plastics To Regenerate Arenols

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Nanocatalyzed Upcycling of the Plastic Wastes for a Circular Economy

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Breaking C─C Bonds and Preserving C─O Bonds in Aromatic Plastics and Lignin via a Reversing Bond Energy Cleavage Strategy

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Metal-Containing Granulated Yh Zeolites with Hierarchic Structure in Isophorone Aromatization

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NbOx-Based Catalysts for the Activation of C–O and C–C Bonds in the Valorization of Waste Carbon Resources

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Oxidative Cleavage of Aromatic C−O Linkages by Oxoammonium Salts

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Nanocatalyzed upcycling of the plastic wastes for a circular economy

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Full Recovery of Epoxy Resin Wastes into Bisphenol A and Epoxy Monomers via Lewis Acid

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Oxidative Depolymerization of Polyphenylene Oxide into Benzoquinone

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NbOx-Based Catalysts for Biomass Conversion: Progress in the Past 20 Years

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Bidirectional Adsorption Modulation over PtNi Alloy Enables Selective Hydrogen-Borrowing Amination to Primary Amines

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Physical Properties of Ternary Deep Eutectic Solvents for Efficient Removal of Phenol from Fuels

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Comparative Studies in the Hydrogenolysis Cleavage of C–O and C–C Bonds in Aromatic Plastics over a Metal-free Nb2O5 Catalyst

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