New chemical route to breaking down used tires at room temperature

Green Car Congress
By mmillikinMar 29, 2016, 12:15 pm45 pts
Researchers at Durham University in the UK have developed a new approach to breaking down the base rubber in materials such as used tires by the catalytic disassembly of polymer chains—eliminating the need for energy intensive mechanical processes. A paper on their work is published in the RSC journal Green…

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