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Exploring the Surface Potential of Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate Composite Supports on the Collagen Contamination Level
With a significant number of features (namely being multipurpose, inexpensive and durable), thermoplastic polymers, most often named plastics, are part of our daily routine, with an increasing production over the last decade. Among them, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), high-density polyethylene (H...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9921895/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36772077 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym15030776 |
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author | Epure, Elena-Luiza Cojocaru, Florina Daniela Aradoaei, Mihaela Ciobanu, Romeo Cristian Dodi, Gianina |
author_facet | Epure, Elena-Luiza Cojocaru, Florina Daniela Aradoaei, Mihaela Ciobanu, Romeo Cristian Dodi, Gianina |
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description | With a significant number of features (namely being multipurpose, inexpensive and durable), thermoplastic polymers, most often named plastics, are part of our daily routine, with an increasing production over the last decade. Among them, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and polypropylene (PP) are distinguished as the five most commonly used plastics in various fields, mainly in the packaging industry. Even if it is difficult to imagine the world without plastics, the boosted plastic assembly comes with huge plastic waste, creating a number of challenges, as the most important threat for our environment, but also opportunities for recycling. Currently, a special attention is dedicated on how to improve the current recycling methods or to find new ones, since the quality of recycled plastics and potential chemical or biological contaminations are two problematic aspects. Understanding the properties of each thermoplastic polymer and the interaction with possible contaminants may be the key for an efficient recycling process. The aim of this paper was to evaluate the surface behaviour of different composite supports based on recycled PET before and after interaction with collagen (used as a biological contaminant). The surface contamination bias of PET supports was studied through different techniques: scanning electron microscopy (SEM), water uptake through swelling studies, contact angle measurements and attenuated total reflection–Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR). |
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spelling | pubmed-99218952023-02-12 Exploring the Surface Potential of Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate Composite Supports on the Collagen Contamination Level Epure, Elena-Luiza Cojocaru, Florina Daniela Aradoaei, Mihaela Ciobanu, Romeo Cristian Dodi, Gianina Polymers (Basel) Article With a significant number of features (namely being multipurpose, inexpensive and durable), thermoplastic polymers, most often named plastics, are part of our daily routine, with an increasing production over the last decade. Among them, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and polypropylene (PP) are distinguished as the five most commonly used plastics in various fields, mainly in the packaging industry. Even if it is difficult to imagine the world without plastics, the boosted plastic assembly comes with huge plastic waste, creating a number of challenges, as the most important threat for our environment, but also opportunities for recycling. Currently, a special attention is dedicated on how to improve the current recycling methods or to find new ones, since the quality of recycled plastics and potential chemical or biological contaminations are two problematic aspects. Understanding the properties of each thermoplastic polymer and the interaction with possible contaminants may be the key for an efficient recycling process. The aim of this paper was to evaluate the surface behaviour of different composite supports based on recycled PET before and after interaction with collagen (used as a biological contaminant). The surface contamination bias of PET supports was studied through different techniques: scanning electron microscopy (SEM), water uptake through swelling studies, contact angle measurements and attenuated total reflection–Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR). MDPI 2023-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9921895/ /pubmed/36772077 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym15030776 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Epure, Elena-Luiza Cojocaru, Florina Daniela Aradoaei, Mihaela Ciobanu, Romeo Cristian Dodi, Gianina Exploring the Surface Potential of Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate Composite Supports on the Collagen Contamination Level |
title | Exploring the Surface Potential of Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate Composite Supports on the Collagen Contamination Level |
title_full | Exploring the Surface Potential of Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate Composite Supports on the Collagen Contamination Level |
title_fullStr | Exploring the Surface Potential of Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate Composite Supports on the Collagen Contamination Level |
title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the Surface Potential of Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate Composite Supports on the Collagen Contamination Level |
title_short | Exploring the Surface Potential of Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate Composite Supports on the Collagen Contamination Level |
title_sort | exploring the surface potential of recycled polyethylene terephthalate composite supports on the collagen contamination level |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9921895/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36772077 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym15030776 |
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