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State of the art in the photochemical degradation of (micro)plastics: from fundamental principles to catalysts and applications

Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2023 94 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Wenxi Li, Wenxuan Zhao, Haoyu Zhu, Zhijun Li, Wanglei Wang

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This review summarizes research on the photochemical degradation of plastics and microplastics into value-added products and intermediates via photocatalysis. The study covers fundamental principles and catalytic approaches for breaking down plastic pollutants that are otherwise difficult to degrade in the environment.

Plastics and microplastics are major environmental pollutants due to wide applications and difficult degradations. Herein, we summarize several studies on degradations of (micro)plastics to value-added products and intermediates via photocatalysis.

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