Polymers Audio Articles

          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

        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, ...

     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  

     The authors present in this article a bitter discussion about the current situation of plastic pollution in oceans. Data has been misinterpreted and shared incorrectly with alarmist holders in news that only feed the plast-fobia . They twist the mainstream by taking conclusions from data, but highlighting this global problem anyway.  Anchor / Google Podcasts / iVoox / Spotify & much more SPANISH AUDIO Published in WIREs Water on 28 th September 2020 Thomas Stanton, Paul Kay, Matthew Johnson, Faith Ka Shun Chan, Rachel L. Gomes, Jennifer Hughes, William Meredith, Harriet G. Orr, Colin E. Snape, Mark Taylor, Jason Weeks, Harvey Wood and Yuyao Xu DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1490

          In this article the idea of recovering different types of gasoline from plastic residues is explored. The researchers select one combination of metallic particles and zeolite as a catalyst and develop different experiments finding, not only that the process is available, but also the possibility of obtaining different mixtures of hydrocarbons by modulating the reaction conditions. Take a listen to this study. Anchor / Google Podcasts / iVoox / Spotify & much more SPANISH AUDIO Published in Science Advances on 21 st april 2021 Sibao Liu, Pavel A. Kots, Brandon C. Vance, Andrew Danielson & Dionisios G. Vlachos DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf8283

          When we decided to focus on the Polymers research field, a sorrowful feeling soaked us: we were saying goodbye to other scientific topics. Anyway, we knew that Polymers are linked to many other bricks in Science so we would be able to talk about many of them. Here we share a paper about Recycling analysing the behavior of polyurethane-degrading enzymes , diving in the detail of the genes . We are also fulfilling a dream touching topics aside like Biology . We hope you enjoy it. Anchor / Google Podcasts / iVoox / Spotify & much more SPANISH AUDIO Los Simpson - ¡Que me estás mezclando polietileno con poliuretano! Published in Frontiers in Microbiology on 27 th march 2020 María José Cárdenas Espinosa, Andrea Colina Blanco, Tabea Schmidgall, Anna Katharina Atanasoff-Kardjalieff, Uwe Kappelmeyer, Dirk Tischler, Dietmar H. Pieper, Hermann J. Heipieper and Christian Eberlein  DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00404 

In this new article, the authors bring up a new approach to the solution of the plastic pollution: an enzyme capable of eating PET . We think this kind of study will keep being a topic with a huge importance for society, so we wanted to bring it to Polymers Audio Articles.  About the structure we have followed, we decided to split the audio in two chapters, as many other times in the past, but twisting things a little; at the first moment, we though divide it in three parts, but two of them would have been very short, so we put together the first and the third part, Introduction & Discussion , and separately, the second one, Results . Although this is unusual, it makes both podcasts more equilibrate. We hope you find this article useful and interesting. Anchor / Google Podcasts / iVoox / Spotify & much more SPANISH AUDIO (1/2) Introduction & Discussion - Characterization and engineering of a two-enzyme system for plastics depolymerization Anchor / Google Podca...