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Can't you go from starches to plastics? So, wouldn't this allow fossil fuel free plastic, without having to convert land from food to plastic production? https
by jpollock 5y ago
Can't you go from starches to plastics? So, wouldn't this allow fossil fuel free plastic, without having to convert land from food to plastic production?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioplastic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioplastic
- gpcr1949 5y agothe very first intermediate is methanol (produced chemically in one step via hydrogenation in this paper, using a known method) so you can just use methanol to polymers via method of choice, e.g. [0] no need to convert to starch first. [0] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.5b00007 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.5b00007