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NOVEMBER 29, 2021
A team of researchers from the US NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers based at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has demonstrated the use of a dual cellular–heterogeneous catalytic strategy to produce olefins from glucose. Wang et al. —Paul Dauenhauer, co-author.
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JULY 2, 2017
Researchers from the University of Minnesota, with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, have developed a new high-yield process—a hybrid of fermentation followed by thermochemical catalysis—to produce renewable isoprene from biomass.
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MAY 1, 2021
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM’s) Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (BEST) announced the provisional committee for a new consensus study, Current Methods for Life Cycle Analyses of Low Carbon Transportation Fuels in the United States. Hill, PhD, University of Minnesota. Jennifer B.
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JUNE 1, 2017
This completes the approval process for projects selected in ARPA-E’s Next-Generation Energy Technologies for Connected and Autonomous On-Road Vehicles (NEXTCAR) ( earlier post ) and Renewable Energy to Fuels Through Utilization of Energy-Dense Liquids (REFUEL) ( earlier post )programs. Giner, Inc.: REFUEL SBIR/STTR. Molecule Works, Inc.:
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OCTOBER 10, 2017
This project aims to deliver stress-tolerant sorghum lines, addressing DOE’s mission in the generation of renewable energy resources. director of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Institute for Renewable Fuels at the Danforth Center. —principal investigator Thomas Brutnell, Ph.D.,
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APRIL 8, 2015
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Minnesota and Argonne National Laboratory will explore ways to produce renewable plastic precursors and other substances from biomass with a recently announced $3.3-million million grant from the United States Department of Energy. Part of a $13.4-million
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JUNE 29, 2012
An international team led by University of Minnesota chemical engineering and materials science professor Michael Tsapatsis reports in the journal Science on a prototype of a new catalyst made of orthogonally connected microporous zeolite nanosheets ( earlier post ). Credit: U of Minn. Click to enlarge. Korea and Sweden.
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