{"id":91428,"date":"2019-08-29T16:54:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T14:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=91428"},"modified":"2019-08-29T16:54:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T14:54:25","slug":"scholars-of-the-polish-academy-of-sciences-work-on-plastic-to-decompose-over-several-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/scholars-of-the-polish-academy-of-sciences-work-on-plastic-to-decompose-over-several-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholars of the Polish Academy of Sciences work on “plastic” to decompose over several years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPC PAS) are working on an ecological and cheap method of obtaining a material that is resistant and light as plastic, produced from garbage and decomposed in just a few years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

– We want to replace PETs with something that would decompose in several months, at most a few years – explains Prof. Juan Carlos Colmenares from the IPC PAS. His team is working on a fully biodegradable material. Researchers managed to develop a new method of producing so-called DFF (2,5-diformyl furfural). The research results were published in the journal Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.<\/p>\n

DFF is a chemical compound that is already used in the production of medicines, cosmetics, perfumes, fuels and environmentally friendly materials.<\/p>\n

Professor Colmenares reminds that there have already been tests of polymers made on the basis of DFF. They can be decomposed to sugar-like monomers. And such sugars are a tasty treat for many microorganisms. Even if a bottle of such plastic is thrown into the forest, it will decompose much faster than conventional polymers after a few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPC PAS) are working on an ecological and cheap method of obtaining a material that is resistant and light as plastic, produced from garbage and decomposed in just a few years. – We want to replace PETs with something that would decompose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}