Sweet and environmentally beneficial discovery:Plastics made from orange peel and a greenhouse gas

摘要

A Cornell University research group has made a sweet and environmentally beneficial discovery - how to make plastics from citrus fruits,such as oranges,and carbon dioxide.Geoffrey Coates,a Cornell professor of chemistry and chemical biology,and his graduate students Chris Byrne and Scott Allen describe a way to make polymers using limonene oxide and carbon dioxide,with the help of a novel "helper molecule" - a catalyst developed in the researchers' laboratory.