Green Chemistry

Royal Society of Chemistry
June 7, 2024

“Subcritical CO2–H2O hydrolysis of polyethylene terephthalate as a sustainable chemical recycling platform”

Cover for Osei et al. showing the hydrolysis and depolymerization of PET polymer chains, facilitated by subcritical CO2, for the chemical recycling of a common waste plastic.

“Synthesis, characterization, and recycling of bio-derivable polyester covalently adaptable networks for industrial composite applications”

Cover art prepared for Matter representing the life cycle of a wind turbine made from a recyclable-by-design composite material.

ACS Central Science

American Chemical Society
December 27, 2023

“Autoxidation Catalysis for Carbon–Carbon Bond Cleavage in Lignin”

Cover for Gu et al., depicting carbon-carbon bond cleavage of a lignin-derived aromatic molecule.

“Multiplexed fitness profiling by RB-TnSeq elucidates pathways for lignin-related aromatic catabolism in Sphingobium sp. SYK-6”

Cover art prepared for Cell Reports metaphorically representing the use of genetic “barcoding” for the sorting and metabolic profiling of engineered microbes, in the pursuit of discovering new metabolic pathways.

Energy & Environmental Science

Royal Society of Chemistry
September, 2023

“Techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment for catalytic fast pyrolysis of mixed plastic waste”

Cover for Yadav et al., which analyzed the economics and life-cycle impacts of using pyrolysis for plastic waste management.

ChemSusChem

Chemistry Europe
April 21, 2023

“Concentration-Dependent Inhibition of Mesophilic PETases on Poly(ethylene terephthalate) Can Be Eliminated by Enzyme Engineering”

Cover for Avilan et al., which looks at how enzyme thermostability effects concentration-dependent enzyme inhibition of PET depolymerization.

Chem Catalysis

Cell Press
October 20, 2022

“The role of binding modules in enzymatic poly(ethylene terephthalate) hydrolysis at high-solids loadings”

Illustrating work by Graham et al., in which PET plastic degrading enzymes are engineered with binding modules, like the ‘foot’ on this enzyme, and tested for improved performance.

“Sourcing thermotolerant poly (ethylene terephthalate) hydrolase scaffolds from natural diversity”

Cover initially designed for Nature Catalysis for a paper in which researchers used machine learning to identify a suite of enzymes with potential for PET plastic degradation.

Joule

Cell Press
October 19, 2022

“Continuous hydrodeoxygenation of lignin to jet-range aromatic hydrocarbons”

Stone et al. describe a process for the deoxygenation of lignin-derived aromatics for the production of sustainable aviation fuel.

“Biochemical and structural characterization of an aromatic ring–hydroxylating dioxygenase for terephthalic acid catabolism”

Cover submission to PNAS, ultimately used in press releases for Kincannon et al. depicting the structure of terephthalate dioxygenase, an enzyme involved in the microbial metabolism of PET plastic.

ChemCatChem

Chemistry Europe
January 10, 2022

“Comparative Performance of PETase as a Function of Reaction Conditions, Substrate Properties, and Product Accumulation”

Cover for Erickson et. al. which characterizes PET plastic degrading enzymes under different conditions.

Nature Catalysis

Springer Nature
February 25, 2022

“Critical enzyme reactions in aromatic catabolism for microbial lignin conversion”

Cover for a review looking at enzymes that can be utilized for funneling lignin-derived aromatic molecules to a central metabolite.

PNAS

April 28, 2020

“Outer membrane vesicles catabolize lignin-derived aromatic compounds in Pseudomonas putida KT2440”

Cover for Salvachua et. al. featuring colorized and arranged images from scanning electron microscopy of Pseudomonas putida, highlighting outer membrane vesicles.