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UT Austin enzyme breaks down PET ‘in a week’

12/05/2022
UT Austin enzyme breaks down PET ‘in a week’

A multidisciplinary team hailing, for the most part, from the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) in the US has developed a polyethylene terephthalate hydrolase (PETase) capable of breaking down untreated post-consumer PET in a single week, according to a study published in scientific journal Nature. A total of 51 different post-consumer...

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