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ACS Video: Chemical Feedstock in the 21st Century
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While I’m working on writing more posts from yesterday’s several press announcements, here is a recently recorded live stream video from the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute (ACSGCI) conference, which is currently being held this week in Maryland, USA. The broadcast featured panelists that include: James E. Jackson, Professor of Chemistry at Michigan State…
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What is biobased economy?
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Good Monday morning! (or afternoon if you’re in Europe, evening if you’re in Asia) I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the newly updated blog will not crash on me. The blog now has the capabilities of posting various video platforms, web applications and most importantly advertising platforms. I am now trying to catch up on…
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Solvay, Bayer MaterialScience in solar flight
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I just saw this really cool video on a local news tonight about a solar power plane called “Solar Impulse” currently flying across America. The airplane prototype HIB-SIA, is the first designed to fly solely on solar power without any fuel and its goal for the second aircraft model HIB-SIB is to fly around the…
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Synthetic bio success in anti-malaria drug
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The blog does not usually cover the pharmaceuticals market being that I am unfamiliar with the players and the products in this industry. However, this news coming from University of California Berkeley warrants a post as professor of chemical engineering Jay Keasling — also the co-founder of Amyris, announced that France-based pharmaceutical company Sanofi will…
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Booming University green chems research
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The blog has been seeing a lot of R&D news from various universities on how to improve green chemistry processing and these are definitely worthwhile checking out. Here’s one from the University of Florida (UF) about their research in turning sugarcane bagasse into succinic acid using a newly engineered strain, called XW 136, which produced…
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Protected: Cereplast seeks $50m opportunity in Italy plastic bag ban
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There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Big biofuel news: KLM, Kior, Sapphire
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While I’m battling some sort of a bug, which hopefully will go away before my trip to the AFPM meeting this coming weekend, here are some big news from the biofuel industry coming from KLM, Kior and Sapphire Energy. Let’s start with KLM, which announced on March 8 that it is now operating a weekly…