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Content Repurposing

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          A lot of ideas have landed on the Polymers Audio Articles project lately and some little improvements are running around our heads, therefore today we would like to summarize them by writing about a concept that links the mayorly: Content Repurposing.  But let’s start by defining this way of building content that has become very popular among the online creators. The general goal of “repurposing” is to provide the audience with easier take away tips. For instance, reuploading short fragments of a long YouTube video in order to reach better engagement. The goal is to create something new from an already existing piece of information, although not necessarily from an own one. That was just a small example of transformation, from video to video, like audio-audio or post-quotes, but we bring another point of view a little bit more extreme, changing also the channel, that means from paper to audio in our case. It represents a huge jump but also a potentially successful one. On the
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47. Stereochemical Control Yields Mucin Mimetic Polymers

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Mucus . Yes, this is basically the material studied in this article. They synthesize, modify, analyze, functionalize and play with a mucin mimetic polymer to research about the protection it provides against toxins . Take a listen to the episode, they deserve at least to take a listen to their work.  Anchor / Google Podcasts / iVoox / Spotify & much more SPANISH AUDIO Published in ACS Central Science on 30 th march 2021 Austin G. Kruger, Spencer D. Brucks, Tao Yan, Gerardo Cárcarmo-Oyarce, Yuan Wei, Deborah H. Wen, Dayanne R. Carvalho, Michael J. A. Hore, Katharina Ribbeck, Richard R. Schrock and Laura L. Kiessling DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.0c01569
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46. Together Is Better: The Rumen Microbial Community as Biological Toolbox for Degradation of Synthetic Polyesters

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          Cows eating plastic . We know that sounds like a crazy story or perhaps a problem in the cattle raising industry, but it happens to be one possible future for plastic management . At least, this article represents the first step in that direction, determining how groups of bacteria and other microorganisms are able to degrade different sorts of plastic . We are really surprised that we haven't seen it in the global media yet, but here we are to fix it. Anchor / Google Podcasts / iVoox / Spotify & much more SPANISH AUDIO Published in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology on 2 nd july 2021 Felice Quartinello, Klemens Kremser, Herta Schoen, Donatella Tesei, Leon Ploszczanski, Magdalena Nagler, Sabine M. Podmirseg, Heribert Insam, Guadalupe Piñar, Katja Sterflingler, Doris Ribitsch and Georg M. Guebitz DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2021.684459
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45. Persistence of plastic debris and its colonization by bacterial communities after two decades on the abyssal seafloor

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          The presence of plastics in the oceans is currently a hot topic in the plastic research matter. A lot of suggestive analysis, revolutionary studies and new approaches to the problem have taken off in the last years and the article we share today follows that way. There are plastics also in the seafloor where bacteria communities grow; that’s the focus of the paper which hopefully will please you. Anchor / Google Podcasts / iVoox / Spotify & much more SPANISH AUDIO   Persistence of plastic debris and its colonization by bacterial communities after two decades on the abyssal seafloor Anchor / Google Podcasts / iVoox / Spotify & much more SPANISH AUDIO Material & Methods - Persistence of plastic debris and its colonization by bacterial communities after two decades on the abyssal seafloor Published in Scientific Reports on 11 th june 2020 S. Krause, M. Molari, E. V. Gorb, S. N . Gorb, E. Kossel & M. Haeckel DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-0
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44. Emergence of life in an inflationary universe

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          The Polymers Audio Articles Team feels excited by releasing this podcast which relates  two quantities on vastly different scales: the number of stars in the universe on an astronomical scale and the number of nucleotides in a molecule on a biologically microscopic scale. We must admit that summarizing this article has been a real challenge, mainly in the mathematical description of the equations used in the study, but we were driven by the desire of exploring a new topic in the project taking a look into a huge world that researchers in  Polymers rarely have the opportunity to look at. We hope you like it. Anchor / Google Podcasts / iVoox / Spotify & much more SPANISH AUDIO Published in Scientific Reports on 3 rd february 2020 Tomonori Totani DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58060-0
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43. Leveling the cost and carbon footprint of circular polymers that are chemically recycled to monomer

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        Here we present a novel type of article; the authors describe the whole process of design of a plant for recovering polymeric resin . They detaille the problem and dive into the technical considerations, as well as the economic balance, which is usually a topic forgotten by scientist, but also important and engaging. We hope you like the work.  Anchor / Google Podcasts / iVoox / Spotify & much more SPANISH AUDIO (1/2) Introduction & Material & Methods - Leveling the cost and carbon footprint of circular polymers that are chemically recycled to monomer Anchor / Google Podcasts / iVoox / Spotify & much more SPANISH AUDIO (2/2) Results & Discussion - Leveling the cost and carbon footprint of circular polymers that are chemically recycled to monomer Picture of  William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882), english economist and philosopher Published in Science Advances on 9 th april 2021 Nemi Vora, Peter R. Christensen, Jérémy Demarteau, Nawa Raj Baral,
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42. Supramolecular tripeptide self-assembly initiated at the surface of coacervates by polyelectrolyte exchange

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          We are so proud of sharing this article from a recommendation of a follower. We also open a tag “Self-assembly” which is always exciting. In the article, the authors explore the idea of copying biological structures by forcing polymeric molecules to bond to each other in a certain way. Take a listen to the podcast because the approach is simple but genius. Anchor / Google Podcasts / iVoox / Spotify & much more SPANISH AUDIO Published in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science on 12 th January 2021 Miryam Criado-Gonzalez, Deborah Wagner, Muhammad Haseeb Iqbal, Aymeric Ontani, Alain Carvalho, Marc Schmutz, Joseph B. Schlenoff, Pierre Schaaf, Loïc Jierry & Fouzia Boulmedais DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2020.12.066
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41. Optimising sample preparation for FTIR-based microplastic analysis in wastewater and sludge samples: multiple digestions

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     These are the kinds of articles we try to highlight in our project. Authors realized a gap in Science and they tried to fill it up. In this case, they face the complexity of comparison between microplastic analysis in different samples, environments or types of plastic due to a non uniformity of methods existing. This issue could be not as sexy as others, but it is also crucial in plastic research. We hope you like it and appreciate the deep detail they got into in the article. Anchor / Google Podcasts / iVoox / Spotify & much more SPANISH AUDIO Published in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry on 23 rd April 2021 Serena Cunsolo, John Williams, Michelle Hale, Daniel S. Read & Fay Couceiro DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-021-03331-6  
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40. Nano-domains assisted energy transfer in amphiphilic polymer conetworks for wearable luminescent solar concentrators

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With this article, we keep feeding the tag #SolarCells, which has been a little bit sleepy since episode 22. Cellulose-Conducting Polymer Aerogels for Efficient Solar Steam Generation . Plus, we thought it explains an interesting principle of solution to the waste of energy reflected in solar cells by using amphiphilic polymer conetworks. The authors also propose an interesting application of the device for wearable luminescent solar concentrators, so it will be an engaging podcast for you. Anchor / Google Podcasts / iVoox / Spotify & much more SPANISH AUDIO Published in Nano Energy on 19 th Jun 2020 Chieh-Szu Huang, Konrad Jakubowski, Sebastian Ulrich, Sergii Yakunin, Michèle Clerc, Claudio Toncelli, René M. Rossi, Maksym V. Kovalenko and Luciano F. Boesel DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.105039
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New Rhythm

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Hello, it’s been a long time since the last post in the meta-section of the blog, so it’s time for a new one and also for explaining news about Polymers Audio Articles. The last few months have been chill, sharing podcasts every week as usual, but we chase more ambitious objectives, primarily with more interaction in social media creating community. There was also a personal milestone we wanted to achieve and we think it’s time to share it. In Polymers Audio Articles we pursue a continuous growth way. It is important to accomplish numbers of views, followers and those kinds of things that will rebound positively on the feedback we receive, but the mindset is to climb the mountain step by step, knowing there is no pick to crown, just a road to enjoy learning and avoiding obstacles . This is a very general explanation, but we also have concrete goals, for example, we thought since the beginning to concede ourselves the first year to just upload episodes and expand the content as much as
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