Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP240100121

Funding Activity

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Funded Activity Summary

Sustainable Reversible Polymerisation. This project aims to address the problem of the current lack of efficient chemical recyclability of polymers. For the majority of polymers, no methods exist so far that are scalable and economic at the same time. To reach this aim, we will utilise a mixture of clever chemical concepts with continuous flow engineering. This project expects to generate new knowledge in the area of depolymerisation and chemical recycling methods. The expected outcome of this project is a scalable process and its practical demonstration for full chemical recycling of various polymers used in everyday applications. This will provide a benefit to society as it allows to tackle plastic pollution problems, and creates avenues to green methods in plastic recycling.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2024

End Date: 12-2026

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $511,041.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Macromolecular materials | Reaction kinetics and dynamics | Physical organic chemistry | Macromolecular and materials chemistry |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)