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PUBLICATIONS

COMPLETE PUBLICATION LIST

For Dr. Abu-Omar's complete publication list, please visit Dr. Abu-Omar's Google Scholar page. 

FEATURED PUBLICATION

SCIENCE

Polyethylene upcycling to long-chain alkylaromatics by tandem hydrogenolysis/aromatization

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Researchers develop an efficient, low-energy method for upcycling plastic waste into valuable molecules, creating a second life for waste plastics.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

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TITLE
Quantitative analyses of products and rates in polyethylene depolymerization and upcycling

AUTHORS
Yu-Hsuan Lee, Jiakai Sun, Susannah L. Scott, and Mahdi M. Abu-Omar

JOURNAL
STAR Protocols

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TITLE
Markedly Improved Catalytic Dehydration of Sorbitol to Isosorbide by Sol–Gel Sulfated Zirconia: A Quantitative Structure–Reactivity Study

AUTHORS
Jack T. Hopper, Ruining Ma, James B. Rawlings, Peter C. Ford, and Mahdi M. Abu-Omar

JOURNAL
ACS Catalysis

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TITLE
Bifunctional tandem catalytic upcycling of
polyethylene to surfactant-range
alkylaromatics

AUTHORS
Jiakai Sun, Yu-Hsuan Lee, Ryan D. Yappert, Anne M. LaPointe, Geoffrey W. Coates, Baron Peters, Mahdi M. Abu-Omar, and Susannah L. Scott

JOURNAL
Chem

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TITLE
Upcycling Waste Polycarbonate to Poly(carbonate imine) Vitrimers with High Thermal Properties and Unprecedented Hydrolytic Stability

AUTHORS
Kamani Sudhir K. Reddy, Yi-Chun Chen, Ru-Jong Jeng, Mahdi M. Abu-Omar, and Ching-Hsuan Lin

JOURNAL
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

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TITLE
Opportunities in Closed-Loop Molecular Recycling of End-of-Life Polyurethane

AUTHORS
Baoyuan Liu, Zach Westman, Kelsey Richardson, Dingyuan Lim, Alan L. Stottlemyer, Thomas Farmer, Paul Gillis, Vojtech Vlcek, Phillip Christopher, and Mahdi M. Abu-Omar

JOURNAL
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

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TITLE
Structure sensitivity in Pt-catalyzed hydrodeoxygenation of multi-oxygenated lignol model compounds

AUTHORS
Justin Marlowe, Peter C. Ford, Mahdi M. Abu-Omar, and Phillip Christopher

JOURNAL
Catalysis Science & Technology

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TITLE
The lignin challenge in catalytic conversion of biomass solids to chemicals and fuels

AUTHORS
Mahdi M. Abu-Omar and Peter C. Ford

JOURNAL
RSC Sustainability

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TITLE
One-step production of renewable adipic acid esters from mucic acid over an Ir–ReOx/C catalyst with low Ir loading

AUTHORS
Jun Hee Jang, Jack T. Hopper, Insoo Ro, Phillip Christopher, and Mahdi M. Abu-Omar

JOURNAL
Catalysis Science & Technology

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TITLE
Preparation of fluorine- and nanoparticle-free superwetting polybenzoxazine/cellulose composites for efficient oil/water separations

AUTHORS
Dula Daksa Ejeta, Fu-Hong Tan, Ariraman Mathivathanan, Tzong-Yuan Juang, Mahdi M. Abu-Omar, Chih-Feng Wang, Ching-Hsuan Lin, Juin-Yih Lai

JOURNAL
Separation and Purification Technology

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TITLE
Crosslinking of renewable polyesters with epoxides to form bio-based epoxy thermosets

AUTHORS
Kalin G. Hanson, Ching-Hsuan Lin, Mahdi M. Abu-Omar

JOURNAL
Polymer

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