NSF award 2533904 · University of California-Santa Barbara

Tailoring polyethylene ethenolysis to obtain higher alpha-olefins

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Award number: 2533904
Period of support: 1 May 2026 – 30 Apr 2029
Amount: $470,000
Awardee: University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Program: Catalysis
Directorate: ENG

Abstract

Polyethylene is a common and useful plastic. It is an inexpensive material that is manufactured, used, and discarded in vast quantities every year. This project aims to find a new way to recycle waste polyethylene by adding enough value for recycling to be economically viable at scale. The aim is to disassemble long polyethylene molecules into much smaller molecules that can be used as chemical building blocks. The…

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