For example, a team recently incorporated capsules containing liquid plastic precursors inside lithium-ion batteries.
The glucosides can be separated, e.g. by means of chromatography, and may be converted into furan building blocks, for example for the production of plastic precursors, such as 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid.
The D-galacturonic acid derived from plant pectin can be converted into a variety of other chemicals which have potential use as chelators, clarifiers, preservatives and plastic precursors.
Thioredoxin M-type, chloro-plastic precursor, and glycine-rich RNA-binding, abscisic acid-inducible protein exhibited the most drastic changes at the protein level, but their expression levels were not similar to their protein abundances.
Styrene is a model plastics precursor with an established route for production in E. coli (McKenna and Nielsen, 2011).
The central element will be a naphtha cracker, a stainless steel vessel that under intense heat and pressure breaks long hydrocarbons into plastics precursors.
Lexan polycarbonate, the first super-strong heat resistant plastic and the precursor to the whole family of so-called engineered thermoplastics, was born here in 1953; it became the underpinning of GE Plastics.
Moreover, our results suggest that conventional plastic deformation of FG precursor materials provides a feasible approach for the synthesis of UFG materials that contain a low density of dislocations.
This paper presents an alternative, and complementary, approach that exploits controlled plastic deformation in the precursors, as validated in a comprehensive set of experimental and theoretical studies.
In this study we focus on the role of an Escherichia coli transporter in improving tolerance and production of olefin compounds that are valuable precursors in the plastic and polymer industry (e.g., bioacrylic, biostyrene) (McKenna and Nielsen, 2011; Schubert et al., 1988).
