Your Topic:
Using advanced materials ( two dimensional and defective (oxygen vacancy) metal oxide) for plastic upcycling
Your Requirement [ Number of pages required in Chapters – Thesis with all details ]:
Introduction chapter(Chapter 1): ~30-35pages / ~10k words
It needs to be included with tables/schematic/figures and correct references/citation. It should be Ai-free, plagiarism-free
Dead Line:
2-3 weeks
Approved Synopsis or Research Proposal:
It is about using advanced materials (MXene (Ti3C2Tx), Pillared MXene, pillared zeolite (MFI,MWW), defective metal oxides) to convert/upcycle plastic waste(LDPE) with hydrocracking and hydrogenolysis to useful products (fuel range products(C5-C35))
Guidelines for the work:
This chapter definitely should contains
Background Plastic
Plastic waste problem
methods of plastic recycling/upcycling, chemical, mechanical, etc
advantages and disadvantages
focus on hydrogenolysis (background, mechanism, how it is working, materials used, why, advantages and problems, what metals is used and why (like pt, ru, etc)
focus on hydrocracking (background, mechanism, how it is working, difference with hydrogenolysis, materials used and why, advantages and problems)
Talk about problems of these two methods (focus on diffusion barrier and selectivity, talk about how/why this happens, mechanism of these problems)
then go through how to solve it; talk about other researches from other topics using large molecules and how they solve it, why they used it and what was their results)
then linked it to using my materials
then talk about my materials((MXene (Ti3C2Tx), Pillared MXene, Zeolite (MWW, MFI), pillared zeolite (MFI,MWW), defective metal oxides (ceO2,Fe2O3, ZrO2, Cr2O3))
Each material should have a sub chapter for themselves ( what are they, how to make them, what is their mechanism, how they help the common plastic problems)
MXene: what is it, how to make it, its advantages/disadvantages, how metal (Ru) interact with mxene, previous works, advantages, disadvantages, mxene pillarization, how it works, why, advantages/disadvantages)
Zeolite: what are they , talk about mww and MFI, advantages, disadvantages, previous works, pillarization, advantages, disadvantages)
in pillarization part, talk about pillarization (increasing surface area); how this mechanism works, the reaction results
defective metal oxide: talk about oxygen vacancy, how it helps, previous works, advantages, disadvantages, how electron modulation help in plastic upcycling, how oxygen vacancy effects on it, etc)
Add more information in each section as necessary to complete the flow of chapter much better
Overall it should have this flow: Plastic–> methods–>mechanism–> problems —>materials–>mechanism–> how they help