What if a machine could suck up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, run it through a series of chemical reactions, and essentially spit out industrially useful plastic?

Six phase diagrams for UCON−phosphate salt aqueous two-phase systems (ATPSs), at 23 °C, are presented. The ATPSs were obtained combining UCON (a random copolymer of 50 % ethylene oxide and 50 % ...