Electrifying achievement for making more sustainable polymers
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-electrifying-sustainable-polymers.html
"room temperature...no hazardous chemical initiators, just electricity,... gold mining and recycling e-waste... adding electron to monomer, then electrified... reacts with another building block in chain reaction forming polymer... environmentally friendly... sulfur-sulfur bonds in backbone... polymer could remove 97% of gold from solutions of relevance to mining and e-waste recycling... self-correcting ensuring uniform polymer"
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