Tokyo University research team successfully synthesizes a new type of carbon dioxide-based plastic

[China Packaging Network News] Recently, the University of Tokyo published a statement that its research team has successfully synthesized a new type of carbon dioxide-based plastic. This kind of plastic has a high proportion of carbon dioxide, which is expected to contribute to improving the utilization of carbon dioxide and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Tokyo University research team successfully synthesized new plastics using carbon dioxide as raw material

Carbon dioxide is a carbon resource that can be obtained in large quantities at low cost. Although researchers had previously synthesized plastics using carbon dioxide as a raw material, the proportion of carbon dioxide is very low. These plastics produce toxic nitrous oxides when burned, and they are resistant to carbon dioxide. The heat is not strong, and its hardness changes greatly near room temperature.

Professor Nozaki Kyoko of the University of Tokyo and colleagues reported in the online issue of the new issue of Nature and Chemistry magazine that they combined carbon dioxide with butadiene produced in large quantities as raw materials for synthetic rubber, using palladium catalysts and free radicals. Polymerization produces a new type of plastic. In the future, by expanding production and improving production processes, it is expected that such plastics will be cheaply produced. It is also possible to use carbon dioxide produced from thermal power stations to manufacture such products and to contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.