{"id":4765,"date":"2025-10-20T12:17:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/?p=4765"},"modified":"2025-10-20T12:17:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:17:33","slug":"chemistry-professor-publishes-research-to-assist-in-up-cycling-pvc-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/2025\/10\/20\/chemistry-professor-publishes-research-to-assist-in-up-cycling-pvc-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry professor publishes research to assist up-cycling of PVC plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Laura McCunn from the Department of Chemistry has co-authored a new research article in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A alongside six undergraduate students. Their study, titled \u201cPyrolysis Reactions of (2-Chloroethyl)benzene,\u201d investigates the chemical reactions that can occur during the chemical recycling of PVC plastic.<\/p>\n<p>The project highlights the valuable contributions of undergraduate researchers in advancing sustainable materials science and environmental chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>The article is available online at <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/acs.jpca.5c03721\">ACS Publications<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Laura McCunn from the Department of Chemistry has co-authored a new research article in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A alongside six undergraduate students. Their study, titled \u201cPyrolysis Reactions of (2-Chloroethyl)benzene,\u201d investigates the chemical reactions that can occur during the chemical recycling of PVC plastic. The project highlights the valuable contributions of undergraduate researchers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":3453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,75,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chemistry","category-research","category-science-abstracts"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/files\/chemisty-mccunn-jordan-acs-grant.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4767,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions\/4767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}