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Cross-border cooperation in biobased materials 8
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Cross-border cooperation in biobased materials

Imagine you could get tobacco plants to make elastin-like proteins with the properties of spider silk.…

Pierre Gielen

Catalytic conversion of biomass CatchBio: focus on chemistry
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Catalytic conversion of biomass CatchBio: focus on chemistry

CatchBio was rounded off at the end of 2016. Biomass catalysis was the central focus of…

Lucien Joppen


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Oleon plant
00:45

Oleon starts up biobased production plant for esters in Oelegem (B)

Chemical company Oleon has commissioned a production plant in Oelegem near Antwerp, along the Albert Canal,…

Editorial office / Ranst

Fuel cell
01:00

Iron replaces platinum in new fuel cell

Researchers at Imperial College London have developed a hydrogen fuel cell that works with iron, carbon…

Editorial office / London

Chemistry lab
00:51

Chemists create new route to PHA’s

Eugene Chen, professor in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University, has led a new…

Editorial office / Fort Collins

Chemical plant
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Avantium awarded €6 million EU grant

Avantium N.V. announces that it has been awarded €6 million as part of a SPIRE grant…

Editorial office / Delfzijl