Nick Petrichow

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224 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 5 Aug

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Nature Podcast · Junk plastic turns into high-value commodity with chemistry trick · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

bit of serendipity there then, but I suppose that having this sort of gooey substance isn't quite a lubricant.

So did you have to do more to actually get it to be a proper lubricant?

So what's the magic formula then?

How would I take my PVC and turn it into a lubricant?

It's about, I guess, sort of breaking up the P V C and attaching different molecules to it to make it this sort of lubricant.

Is that about right?

And when you did this and you made this lubricant, is it as good as the sort of lubricants I can buy off the shelf?

Is it similar?

As you mentioned, PVC has a lot of different uses and it's got different additives and different things added to it to give it different properties.

Were you able to do this for a broad range of different PVCs?

Okay.

Great.

Um and so i o obviously then it sounds like it works for a broad range of different PVCs, but you wanted to make something that would be sort of economically viable and companies could do this or, you know, industry could do this.

How m easily would this process that you've shown here be to

And so what would you say then are the next steps if someone were to try and do this on a larger

And so is that your hope for the future to try and resolve much of the plastic waste problem?

Lou from Virginia Tech in the US.

For a smooth ride over to more on lubricants, you can check out the show notes for some links.

I'm

and I'm Nick Petrichau.

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