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University of Alabama Engineer Pioneers New Process for Recycling Plastics


Researchers at the University of Alabama have developed a way of more efficiently and effectively recycling polymers.

Bara, a professor in the College of Engineering, leads a team at The University of Alabama working to improve methods to recycle the ubiquitous plastics we interact with daily. The University of Alabama has filed a patent application for the process, which offers several key advantages over other chemical recycling methods for PET. This work on recycling PET and PU via imidazolysis has been supported by active funding from NSF and includes contributions from researchers at Iowa State University.

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