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DESCRIPTION:UPDATE: This lecture has been postponed. For updates on a new d
 ate\, visit the SLAC Public Lecture website.\n\nFrom our kitchens to our c
 lothes to the delivery of medicines\, plastics play an indispensable role 
 in our daily lives. But\, the end-life of these plastics is not always tak
 en into account. Few types of plastics can be readily recycled\, and durab
 le plastics take centuries to break down in landfills or in the environmen
 t. Here at SLAC\, we are designing chemical processes that can break down 
 plastics under controlled conditions while also making useful products. Us
 ing X-ray light\, we observe the details of this breakdown at the atomic l
 evel and use this information to design pathways for the degradation of pl
 astics into useful products. We are members of a consortium that aims to m
 ake tomorrow's plastics recyclable and biodegradable by design. In this le
 cture\, I will describe my work on visualizing and improving our methods f
 or breaking down plastic waste into useful products.
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LOCATION:SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory\, Kavli Auditorium 
SUMMARY:Postponed: Reinventing the way we break down plastic waste
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/reinventing-the-way-we-brea
 k-down-plastic-waste
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