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Systemically Understanding Aqueous Photocatalytic Upgrading of Microplastic to Fuels
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This review examines photocatalytic methods for converting microplastic waste into renewable fuels using solar energy. These approaches could transform plastic pollutants into useful energy sources rather than allowing them to accumulate in the environment and food chain.
Photocatalytic Upgrading of Microplastics Photocatalysis, as a utilization of solar energy, provides the finishing touch to the process of selectively transforming the white plastic pollutants encircling the Earth into renewable fuels and valuable byproducts in the aqueous condition. In article number 2300411, Zhang and co-workers systematically reviewed the recent advances on aqueous photocatalytic upgrading of microplastic to fuels.
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