TY - JOUR
T1 - Current strategies for industrial plastic production from non-edible biomass
AU - Manker, Lorenz P.
AU - Jones, Marie J.
AU - Bertella, Stefania
AU - Behaghel de Bueren, Jean
AU - Luterbacher, Jeremy S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant no. CRSII5_180258) and the National Competence Center Catalysis (grant no. 51NF40_180544), and by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 945363.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/6
Y1 - 2023/6
N2 - Realistically replacing petroleum-based plastics will require efficient routes to performance polymers using scalable processes from abundantly available lignocellulosic biomass. We surveyed academic and patent literature for processes in the latest stages of commercial development to draw out design strategies that have enabled their success. We found that these processes consist of chemocatalytic transformations of non-edible biomass to rigid plastic precursors with high drop-in readiness via a stable, hydrophobic, and distillable platform molecule. However, due to the deoxygenated nature of these precursors, the processes suffer from low biomass utilization efficiency and high process complexity–thereby limiting their sustainability. We discuss our group's preliminary efforts to design novel monomers with lower drop-in readiness, but with increased process efficiency and simplicity from biomass.
AB - Realistically replacing petroleum-based plastics will require efficient routes to performance polymers using scalable processes from abundantly available lignocellulosic biomass. We surveyed academic and patent literature for processes in the latest stages of commercial development to draw out design strategies that have enabled their success. We found that these processes consist of chemocatalytic transformations of non-edible biomass to rigid plastic precursors with high drop-in readiness via a stable, hydrophobic, and distillable platform molecule. However, due to the deoxygenated nature of these precursors, the processes suffer from low biomass utilization efficiency and high process complexity–thereby limiting their sustainability. We discuss our group's preliminary efforts to design novel monomers with lower drop-in readiness, but with increased process efficiency and simplicity from biomass.
KW - Bioeconomy
KW - Biomass utilization efficiency
KW - Bioplastics
KW - Industrial processes
KW - Lignocellulosic biomass
KW - Sustainability
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cogsc.2023.100780
DO - 10.1016/j.cogsc.2023.100780
M3 - Review Article
AN - SCOPUS:85150787311
SN - 2452-2236
VL - 41
JO - Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry
JF - Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry
M1 - 100780
ER -
