Lignin Unchained, 3D printable: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Engineered Lignin Bioplastics
The project goal? To produce and commercialize lignin-derived, industrial-grade composites with properties including 3D printability, rivaling current petroleum-derived alternatives. That's the project undertaken by...
Power-to-liquids: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Solid Oxide Fuel Cell technology
Sunfire's key technology is the Solid Oxide Power Core – a stack of high-temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs).
SOFCs convert chemical energy from a...
Advanced, to Go: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to 2G biofuels implementation timetable
The biggest news out of Novozymes this month is its new yeast platform for starch-based ethanol, while also introducing the first product, Innova Drive....
The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to the Future of the Internal Combustion Engine
When it comes to the future of the combustion engine, what are the future developments from a scientific viewpoint?
That's the ambitious topic that Gennadi Zikoridse...
New Cat in Town: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Advanced Catalyst Synthesis
Deliver high performing, cost-effective catalytic materials that meet the needs of the ChemCatBio catalysis projects? That's the ambitious goal of a project led by...
Building blocks from biocrude: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to biobased methoxyphenols
To develop and optimize a hybrid separation method to recover high-value methoxyphenols to improve the process economics and environmental impact for the production of...
Liquefy thy forest: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to liquefaction of forest biomass for...
A team of researchers from Iowa State led by Robert Brown and supported by the DOE's Biomass Technologies Office is aiming to demonstrate the liquefaction...
Brazil Bilateral: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to US-Brazil R&D in thermochemical bio conversion
The Brazil Bilateral is a co-operative R&D effort between Brazil's Petrobras and the US National renewable Energy Laboratory. It aims to demonstrate technical and...
Longer shelf life: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to DuPont/ADM’s FDME project
Not long ago, DuPont Industrial Biosciences and Archer Daniels Midland announced a new breakthrough process in producing FDME from fructose, with “the potential to...
Programming cells to do amazing stuff: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Asimov
Asimov has spun out of MIT aimed at detecting and responding to customer needs in applying biocircuit design to real-world opportunities.
“It is literally a...