– 6 September 2024 –
Assistant professor Ina Vollmer received an ERC Starting Grant for her plastic recycling research. The main goal of the five-year project is to gain fundamental insight into the innovative process of breaking down plastics to its chemical building blocks, the monomers, by using force. Using force, instead of heat, is more sustainable and yields higher quality building blocks for new plastic products. The fundamental knowledge that Vollmer aims to acquire is needed to optimize and upscale these kinds of recycling methods.
