Equality, Science, and Technology: For a paradigm shift

This week our CSO Coralie Jehanno participated in the international conference “Equality, Science, and Technology. For a paradigm shift” organised by Emakunde in San Sebastian. The different presentations and round tables on the inclusion of gender perspective in Research and Development have been fascinating and we have learned as much as we have felt understood. If only one number […]

POLYKEY has received the grant from NEOTEC program

POLYKEY has been granted for the NEOTEC program by the CDTI (Centro para el desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial), as one of the top ten classified business projects participating in the NEOTEC contest. The goal of CDTI’s NEOTEC program, Business Public Entity from the Spanish goverment (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación), is to support the creation and […]

NATURE Project exchange

In the framework of the NATURE project in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, we have the pleasure to host Gabriela Garbonova and Bige Batı! After a year of hard work in the group of Prof. Andrew Dove, they join the POLYKEY team for exploring the industrial perspectives of their respective doctoral projects! Welcome to POLYKEY!

From plastic wastes to new generation batteries

The management of plastic wastes and the investigation of efficient energy storage alternatives are two of the major challenges for the 21st century. Our team has recently worked on procedures for solving these two problems by transforming a commonly used plastic into innovative polymer electrolytes. Through a novel depolymerisation/polymerisation loop, polycarbonate wastes become a feedstock […]

Organocatalysis for depolymerisation

In this review published in Polymer Chemistry, our team, in collaboration with the Dove Research group of the University of Birmingham, have highlighted the recent advances made by applying organocatalysts to the recycling of commodity polymers. Organocatalysis is envisaged as a promising tool for an ideal circular plastic economy, and we have explored this area.