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Nature Reviews Chemistry, October 4, 2024

“Accessing monomers from lignin through carbon–carbon bond cleavage”

RSC Green Chemistry, June 7, 2024
“Subcritical CO2–H2O hydrolysis of polyethylene terephthalate as a sustainable chemical recycling platform”

Prepared for Matter

“Synthesis, characterization, and recycling of bio-derivable polyester covalently adaptable networks for industrial composite applications”

ACS Central Science, December 27, 2023

“Autoxidation Catalysis for Carbon–Carbon Bond Cleavage in Lignin”

RSC Energy & Environmental Science, September, 2023
“Techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment for catalytic fast pyrolysis of mixed plastic waste”

Prepared for Cell Reports

“Multiplexed fitness profiling by RB-TnSeq elucidates pathways for lignin-related aromatic catabolism in Sphingobium sp. SYK-6”

Chem Catalysis
October 20, 2022

“The role of binding modules in enzymatic poly(ethylene terephthalate) hydrolysis at high-solids loadings”

ChemSusChem, April 21 2023
“Concentration-Dependent Inhibition of Mesophilic PETases on Poly(ethylene terephthalate) Can Be Eliminated by Enzyme Engineering”

“Sourcing thermotolerant poly (ethylene terephthalate) hydrolase scaffolds from natural diversity”

Prepared for PNAS
“Biochemical and structural characterization of an aromatic ring–hydroxylating dioxygenase for terephthalic acid catabolism”

Joule, October 19, 2022

“Continuous hydrodeoxygenation of lignin to jet-range aromatic hydrocarbons”

ChemSusChem, January 10, 2022

“Comparative Performance of PETase as a Function of Reaction Conditions, Substrate Properties, and Product Accumulation”

Nature Catalysis, February 25, 2022

“Critical enzyme reactions in aromatic catabolism for microbial lignin conversion”

PNAS, April 28, 2020

“Outer membrane vesicles catabolize lignin-derived aromatic compounds in Pseudomonas putida KT2440”

Graphical Abstracts

Graphical abstract for Graham et al., 2022, published in Chem Catalysis.

Graphical abstract for Lusty Beech et al., 2022 depicting a colorimetric assay used for the identification of enzymes able to break down PET plastic subunits.