Classification of plastic materials based on spectroscopic data is a very crucial task in a variety of applications, including automated recycling, environmental monitoring, quality control in manufacturing, quality control of products, and analysis ...
Plastic waste, particularly polyethylene terephthalate (PET), presents significant environmental challenges, driving extensive research into enzymatic biodegradation. However, existing PET hydrolases (PETases) are limited by narrow sequence diversity...
Ecotoxicology and environmental safety
Jun 18, 2025
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a polymer widely used in consumer products, has recently been implicated in cancer progression, though its mechanistic underpinnings remain elusive. This multidisciplinary study systematically investigates PET's carc...
Accurate identification of plastic materials from post-consumer food container and packaging waste is crucial for enhancing the purity and added value of recycled materials, thereby promoting recycling and addressing the issue of plastic pollution. H...
As genomic databases expand and artificial intelligence tools advance, there is a growing demand for efficient characterization of large numbers of proteins. To this end, here we describe a generalizable pipeline for high-throughput protein purificat...
Managing the worldwide steady increase in the production of plastic while mitigating the Earth's global pollution is one of the greatest challenges nowadays. Fungi are often involved in biodegradation processes thanks to their ability to penetrate in...
Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology
Nov 27, 2023
Poly (ethylene terephthalate) (PET) is one of the most commonly used plastics in daily life and various industries. Enzymatic depolymerization and recycling of post-consumer PET (pc-PET) provides a promising strategy for the sustainable circular econ...
Microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) are global pollutants with emerging concerns. Methods to predict and screen their toxicity are crucial. Elemental dyshomeostasis can be used to assess toxicity of environmental pollutants. Non-targeted metal...
Plastic waste poses an ecological challenge and enzymatic degradation offers one, potentially green and scalable, route for polyesters waste recycling. Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) accounts for 12% of global solid waste, and a circular carbon e...
The annelid, which consists of several identical segments, exploits its soft structures to move effectively in complex natural environments. Elongation and shortening of different segments produce a reverse peristaltic wave while retractable setae ge...
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