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About 70 million tons of sulfur are produced yearly as a by-product of petroleum refining, and 10 millions are overproduced and accumulated, thus requiring advanced recycling strategies to reach a circular economy. Here we review the recycling of sublimed sulfur into value-added products with focus on nanotechnology, medicine, agriculture, sensors, electronics, polymers, photocatalysis, construction materials, food packaging, and preservation. Electronics include energy storage devices, light-emitting diodes, and photovoltaic devices.
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Copyright American Chemical Society. b Tandem inverse vulcanization and electropolymerization technique to synthesize sulfur and thiophene-based copolymers using S8 and styrene-functionalized propylenedioxythiophene. Adapted with permission from Dirlam et al. (2015). Copyright American Chemical Society. DIB: 1,3-diisopropenyl benzene, S-r-DIB: sulfur-random-(1,3-di isopropenyl benzene), ProDOT: propylenedioxythiophene, ProDOT-Sty: styrene functionalized propylenedioxythiophene, ProDIBS: poly(ProDOT-Sty-random-DIB-random-sulfur)
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Priyadarshi, R., Khan, A., Ezati, P. et al. Sulfur recycling into value-added materials: a review. Environ Chem Lett 21, 1673–1699 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10311-023-01575-5
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