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A change is gonna come

Nature Reviews Chemistry volume 1, Article number: 0008 (2017) Cite this article

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Chemical feedstocks are beginning to move away from their heavy reliance on petroleum. Although the precise timing for this transition is open to much debate, the trend is inevitable.

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  1. John Spevacek is an industrial polymer chemist based in Minnesota, USA. He authors a blog called ‘It's the Rheo Thing’.,

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Spevacek, J. A change is gonna come. Nat Rev Chem 1, 0008 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41570-016-0008

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