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Plastic waste pollution causes significant environmental challenges, contributing to environmental deterioration and severe impact on human health. Addressing this issue, Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) has appeared as a dynamic and eco-friendly material used for the degradation of plastics and organic pollutants. MOFs exhibit exceptional structural properties like high surface area, porosity that are being widely used in catalytic and adsorption-based applications. This review explores the advancement in MOF and their use as catalysts for the degradation of polymers from the early 2010s. It highlights the innovative upcycling of PET waste into MOFs, promoting a circular economy while mitigating ecological concerns. Moreover, the review also reinforces the degradation mechanism, challenges and limitation of MOFs, including their stability, recyclability, and cost-efficiency in extensive scale application. Combining MOFs into aerogels or employing post-synthetic modification are some ways to enhance their durability and performance. Advanced techniques, such as computational simulations and AI-based design, are being developed to revolutionize MOF optimization for different applications. It also emphasizes their potential to tackle plastic pollution and facilitate eco-innovations in environmental remediation and polymer recycling.
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Polymer Degradation and Stability deals with the degradation reactions and their control which are a major preoccupation of practitioners of the many and diverse aspects of modern polymer technology.
Deteriorative reactions occur during processing, when polymers are subjected to heat, oxygen and mechanical stress, and during the useful life of the materials when oxygen and sunlight are the most important degradative agencies. In more specialised applications, degradation may be induced by high energy radiation, ozone, atmospheric pollutants, mechanical stress, biological action, hydrolysis and many other influences. The mechanisms of these reactions and stabilisation processes must be understood if the technology and application of polymers are to continue to advance. The reporting of investigations of this kind is therefore a major function of this journal.
However there are also new developments in polymer technology in which degradation processes find positive applications. For example, photodegradable plastics are now available, the recycling of polymeric products will become increasingly important, degradation and combustion studies are involved in the definition of the fire hazards which are associated with polymeric materials and the microelectronics industry is vitally dependent upon polymer degradation in the manufacture of its circuitry. Polymer properties may also be improved by processes like curing and grafting, the chemistry of which can be closely related to that which causes physical deterioration in other circumstances.
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