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2026
Sayantan Roy, Nazir Uddin, Tanmay Sarkar, Rusmita Mukherjee, Gitish K. Dutta, Paresh Nath Chatterjee. Upcycling of Waste Polystyrene Into Hypercrosslinked Acid Catalyst for Efficient Dehydrative Substitution Reactions of Diarylmethanols. ChemistrySelect, 2026, 11, e73486.
Lageard, V., Yan, Y., Liu, Y., Gong, Y., Liu, S., Schroeder, B.C., Palomas, D. RECOMPENSE: a student-led open science initiative for sustainable polystyrene waste upcycling in academic labs. RSC Sustainability, 2026, 4, 1986-1995.
2025
Stephania Santana-Luna, Marcial Yam-Cervantes, Rita Sulub-Sulub, Mauricio Huhn-Ibarra, Humberto Vázquez, Santiago Duarte, Wilberth Herrera-Kao, and Maria Ortencia González-Díaz. Sustainable Membranes for Water Treatment from Expanded Polystyrene Waste Using Dimethyl Isosorbide as a Green Solvent. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2025, 13, 17939−17948.
Moazzen, B., Kamrouz, R., & Khorshidi, A. Sulfonated polystyrene foam waste as an efficient catalyst for Friedel-Crafts type reactions. Scientific Reports,2025, 15(1), 250.
2024
Lo, C-Y.; Koutsoukos, K.P.; Nguyen, D.M. ; Wu, Y.; Trujillo, D. A. A., Miller, T.; Shrestha, T.; Mackey, E.; Damani, V.S.; Kanbur, U.; Opila, R.; Martin, D.C.; Kaphan, D.; Kayser, L.V. Imidazolium-Based Sulfonating Agent to Control the Degree of Sulfonation of Aromatic Polymers and Enable Plastics-to-Electronics Upgrading. JACS Au, 2024, 4, 7, 2596–2605.
2022
Cuizhu Ye , Ziyan Pan and Yi Shen. Facile Conversion of Polystyrene Waste into an Efficient Sorbent for Water Purification. Polymers 2022, 14(21), 4477.
2021
Yeung, C. W. S., Loh, W. W., Lau, H. H., Loh, X. J., & Lim, J. Y. C. Catalysts developed from waste plastics: A versatile system for biomass conversion. Materials Today Chemistry, 2021, 21, 100524.
Ribeiro, M. S. P., Pinto, R. R. S., da Silva Rocha, K. A., & Vieira, C. G. Sulfonated expanded polystyrene waste promotes the (+)-citronellal cyclization reaction: a sustainable alternative process for biomass valorization. Waste and Biomass Valorization, 2021, 12(8), 4695-4702.
2015
Tabekh, H., Al Kurdi, M. H., & Ajji, Z. Sulphonation of expanded polystyrene waste with commercial sulphuric acid for potential use in removal of heavy metals from contaminated waters. Polimeri, 2015, 36(1), 11-14.
2014
Alonso-Fagúndez, N., Laserna, V., Alba-Rubio, A. C., Mengibar, M., Heras, A., Mariscal, R., & Granados, M. L. Poly-(styrene sulphonic acid): An acid catalyst from polystyrene waste for reactions of interest in biomass valorization. Catalysis Today, 2014, 234, 285-294.
2010
Grossi, C. V., de Oliveira Jardim, E., de Araújo, M. H., Lago, R. M., & da Silva, M. J. Sulfonated polystyrene: a catalyst with acid and superabsorbent properties for the esterification of fatty acids. Fuel, 2010, 89(1), 257-259.
2006
Bekri-Abbes*, I., Bayoudh, S., Baklouti, M., Papon, E., & LeClercq, D. Converting waste polystyrene into adsorbent: optimisation of reaction parameters and properties. Progress in rubber, plastics and recycling technology, 2006, 22(3), 179-193.
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