Upcycling: Converting waste plastics into paramagnetic, conducting, solid, pure carbon microspheres

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4753-4759

  Pol, Vilas Ganpat ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; ATOMIC STRUCTURE; AUTOGENIC PRESSURE; CARBON MICROSPHERES; CLOSED REACTOR; ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN; OPTIMIZATION OF PROCESS PARAMETERS; PARAMAGNETIC NATURE; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; REACTION TEMPERATURE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SOLVENT FREE; THERMAL DISSOCIATION; VALUE ADDED PRODUCTS; WASTE PLASTIC;

DISSOCIATION; ELASTOMERS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MICROSPHERES; PARAMAGNETIC MATERIALS; PARAMAGNETISM; PLASTICITY; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POLYETHYLENES; POLYSTYRENES;

PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE;

CARBON; MICROSPHERE; PLASTIC; POLYETHYLENE; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE; POLYSTYRENE;

ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; OPTIMIZATION; PLASTIC; RECYCLING; VOLUME;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL REACTION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; RECYCLING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CARBON; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MAGNETICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSPHERES; NANOPARTICLES; PLASTICS; POLYETHYLENE; PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; WASTE PRODUCTS;

EID: 77953515204     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es100243u     Document Type: Article

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