{"id":5048,"date":"2023-01-12T11:12:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T05:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5048"},"modified":"2025-03-27T03:58:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:28:25","slug":"what-is-polyethylene-terephthalate-pet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-polyethylene-terephthalate-pet\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0<strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The researchers developed an integrated reactor with two separate compartments: One for plastic and one for greenhouse gases.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The reactor uses a light absorber based on <strong>perovskite<\/strong> &#8211; a promising alternative to silicon for next-generation solar cells.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Tests of the reactor under normal temperature and pressure conditions showed the reactor could efficiently convert polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles and CO2 into different carbon-based fuels such as CO, syngas or formate, in addition to glycolic acid.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The reactor produced these products at a rate that is also much higher than conventional photocatalytic CO2 reduction processes.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What is Polyethylene terephthalate?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a condensation polymer of <strong>ethylene glycol<\/strong> and <strong>terephthalic acid<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The by-product of the reaction is water so it is an example of condensation or step-growth polymerization.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>PET Plastic is a thermoplastic synthetic substance which malleable under heat and can be placed into nearly any shape.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/science-technology\/new-reactor-powered-by-sun-can-convert-plastic-co2-into-fuel-87045\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>A new reactor powered by the sun can convert plastic, and CO2 into fuel<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polyethylene Terephthalate is a condensation polymer of ethylene glycol and terephthalic acid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}