{"id":224731,"date":"2025-11-08T00:13:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/self-driving-system-makes-key-plastic-ingredient-using-in-house-generated-h%e2%82%82o%e2%82%82"},"modified":"2025-11-08T00:13:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:13:28","slug":"self-driving-system-makes-key-plastic-ingredient-using-in-house-generated-h%e2%82%82o%e2%82%82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/self-driving-system-makes-key-plastic-ingredient-using-in-house-generated-h%e2%82%82o%e2%82%82","title":{"rendered":"Self-driving system makes key plastic ingredient using in-house generated H\u2082O\u2082"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/self-driving-system-makes-key-plastic-ingredient-using-in-house-generated-he28282oe282822.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An eco-friendly system capable of producing propylene oxide (PO) without external electricity or sunlight has been developed. PO is a vital raw material used in manufacturing household items such as polyurethane for sofas and mattresses, as well as polyester for textiles and water bottles.<\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Professors Ja Hun Kwak and Ji-Wook Jang from the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST, in collaboration with Professor Sung June Cho of Chonnam National University, has successfully created a self-driven PO production system utilizing in-situ generated hydrogen peroxide (H\u2082O\u2082).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-63828-x\" target=\"_blank\">The research<\/a> is published in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An eco-friendly system capable of producing propylene oxide (PO) without external electricity or sunlight has been developed. PO is a vital raw material used in manufacturing household items such as polyurethane for sofas and mattresses, as well as polyester for textiles and water bottles. A research team led by Professors Ja Hun Kwak and Ji-Wook [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}