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28 January 202524 January 2025

What you need to know about carbon capture, utilization and storage

The experimental facility will explore carbon capture, utilization or storage, and industrial decarbonization, and it will be sited at Cornell’s existing Combined Heat and Power Plant

21 June 202414 June 2024

Startup aiming to reduce plastic reliance joins Cornell incubator

Generally food containers are made from polyethylene (PE) or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS), and other plastics, to line packaging - but about three years ago, Thomas and Ryan Scheel, the founders of RETRN Bio, imagined a better source: biological components

29 June 202322 June 2023

Trojan Horse Polymers for a Circular Economy

New strategy for recyclable polyolefins

1 June 202330 May 2023

Archaic equation helps scientists control CO2 transformations

From Forgotten Formula to Climate Game Changer: A New Tool for Converting Carbon Dioxide

The Ancient ‘Wonder Material’ Sucking CO2 Out of the Atmosphere

Though public awareness is low, some scientists believe “biochar” is quietly becoming the world’s first major carbon removal success story

7 March 20232 March 2023

Neuer Katalysator erleichtert das Upcycling, das Recycling und den biologischen Abbau von Einwegkunststoffen

Revolutionärer Durchbruch: Der Katalysator verwandelt Motoröl, Plastik und Erdgas in nachhaltige Materialien

17 January 202312 January 2023

Electrochemistry converts carbon to useful molecules

A chemistry collaboration led to a creative way to put carbon dioxide to good – and even healthy – use: by incorporating it, via electrosynthesis, into a series of organic molecules that are vital to pharmaceutical development

Elektrochemie wandelt Kohlenstoff in nützliche Moleküle um

Wie ein Team mithilfe der Elektrosynthese Kohlendioxid in wertvolle pharmazeutische Moleküle verwandelt

21 April 202220 April 2022

Light, oxygen turn waste plastics into useful benzoic acid

Cornell researcher has discovered a new path for polystyrene waste that includes being upcycled into benzoic acid, through a mild process that uses light, an oxygen-rich environment and an abundant iron-based catalyst

Chemiker nutzen die Sonne, um Plastikabfälle zu recyceln

Licht und Sauerstoff verwandeln Kunststoffabfälle in nützliche Benzoesäure

28 September 202123 September 2021

Research guides future of plastic waste chemical recycling

New Cornell University's paper highlights the benefits of consequential life-cycle optimization when compared with more traditional analytical tools

Forschung leitet die Zukunft des chemischen Recyclings von Kunststoffabfällen ein

Neue Studie der Cornell Universität hebt die Vorteile der konsequenten Lebenszyklusoptimierung im Vergleich zu traditionelleren Analyseinstrumenten hervor

25 January 20219 September 2021

Oregon State researchers take key step toward cleaner, more sustainable production of hydrogen

The observations led to a deep understanding of what was going on behind strontium iridate’s ability to work so well as a catalyst

6 January 20219 September 2021

Engineers go microbial to store energy, sequester CO2

The key: Let bioengineered microbes do all the work

16 July 20207 July 2020

Evergreen idea turns biomass DNA into degradable materials

DNA has a lot of handy uses. It stores the blueprint of genetic code. It helps usher along the evolution of species

29 August 201926 August 2019

University of Minnesota receives $20M grant for sustainable plastics research

Researchers used microbial engineering to develop an inexpensive, sustainable pathway for commercially viable flexible foams usable in everyday items

12 July 20199 July 2019

Wired Bacteria Form Nature’s Power Grid: ‘We Have an Electric Planet’

Electroactive bacteria were running current through “wires” long before humans learned the trick

5 June 20199 September 2021

Engineered bacteria could be missing link in energy storage

Electrical energy to be converted into fuels or bioplastics by microbes

Bakterien speichern Wind- und Solarstrom

Elektrische Energie durch Mikroorganismen in Treibstoffe oder Biokunststoff umwandelbar

12 November 20187 November 2018

Economic comparative advantage of willow biomass in the Northeast USA

Willow is grown commercially on about 500 hectares in the Northeast, predominantly for biopower but also for some other markets

14 September 20189 September 2021

Shell-backed startup creates fuel from carbon dioxide and fake sunlight

A startup company backed by energy giant Shell has developed a method to turn carbon dioxide into fuel by adding fake sunlight

13 October 20179 October 2017

Kraftstoff aus Abfällen und Elektrizität?

Wissenschaftler zeigen, dass es möglich ist, aus komplexer Biomasse und elektrischer Energie drop-in Kraftstoff zu produzieren

7 June 20171 June 2017

Research focuses on reclaiming strip-mine sites for biofuel crop production

Switchgrass can be condensed into fuel pellets for heating and it can be used to make ethanol

18 January 201713 January 2017

Microalgae create green fuel, reduce food insecurity

ICMM could reduce fossil fuel use by supplying liquid hydrocarbon biofuels for the aviation and cargo shipping industries

27 September 201623 September 2016

Cooper Tire and Consortium Partners Report Significant Progress on Grant to Develop Guayule Polymer for Tire Applications

The 100 percent guayule-based concept tire will undergo extensive technical evaluation following its production

11 August 20169 August 2016

Biological wizardry ferments carbon monoxide into biofuel

Cornell University biological engineers have deciphered the cellular strategy to make the biofuel ethanol, using an anaerobic microbe feeding on carbon monoxide – a common industrial waste gas

22 June 201615 February 2018

Murray McLaughlin, Bioindustrial Innovation: Canada is working on a bioeconomy strategy

In this Interview Murray McLaughlin talks about bioeconomy in Canada, climate change, biomass, Green public procurement, carbon tax and other policies

22 February 201616 February 2016

Dandelion Rubber TPO

Using alternative natural rubber in plastics

23 September 201522 September 2015

Orange is the new black gold: how peel could replace crude oil in plastics

York researchers to make biofuel from orange peels

14 August 20159 September 2021

Why not just reduce our use?

Meet the companies trying to break our plastic addiction

4 August 20153 August 2015

Ethylene Production Via Sunlight Opens Door to Future

Here's the future of ethylene production as Dr. Jianping Yu sees it

21 July 201517 July 2015

$18 Million Algae Biofuel Blast From US Energy Department

The ultimate aim is to bring the cost of algae down to a cost of $3 compared to gasoline by 2030

9 July 20158 July 2015

Life Cycle Inventory and Impact Assessment Data for 2014 Ingeo™ Polylactide Production

Ecoprofile for 2014 Ingeo® Biopolymers Production Published Open Access in Industrial Biotechnology

1 July 201529 June 2015

DOE’s ARPA-E funds 6 projects to improve sorghum development

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded $30 million to six projects under its Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture program

30 April 20152 September 2015

USDA Awards $3.8 Million in Grants for Nanotechnology Research

Nanoscale science, engineering, and technology embrace opportunities in a broad range of critical challenges facing agriculture and food systems

25 February 201524 February 2015

Untersuchung möglicher Toxizität von Cellulose-Nanokristallen

Umfassende und objektive Beurteilung der Umwelttoxizität von Cellulose-Nanokristallen notwendig für die Anwendung und Nutzung in der Biotechnologie

Potential toxicity of cellulose nanocrystals examined in Industrial Biotechnology journal

Comprehensive assessment important for deployment of these crystals for a number of industrial biotechnology applications

28 October 201427 October 2014

Cooper Tire begins testing tires made with guayule component

Cooper and Consortium Partners Update Progress on $6.9 Million Grant to Develop Guayule Polymer for Tire Applications

10 October 20149 October 2014

US Department of Energy earmarks $25 million for biofuel research

Algal biofuels to help create green jobs, improve the environment, and achieve national energy security

18 August 201415 August 2014

University of Minnesota’s Center for Sustainable Polymers receives $20 million

National Science Foundation grant to pioneer next generation of plastics

27 February 20149 September 2021

CO2 als Rohstoff

US-Startup nutzt Klimagas zur Plastikherstellung

2 October 20132 October 2013

Yulex awarded 2013 AZBio Fast Lane Award

Yulex will be honored by bioindustry leaders at the Phoenix Convention Center during the 2013 AZBio Awards on October 10, 2013

1 July 2013

Bioengineering Fungi for Biofuels and Chemicals Production

'Industrial Biotechnology' with Special Section on Fungal Biology, Industrial Applications

3 May 201318 January 2018

Innovation Prize for “Biomaterial of the Year 2013” awarded to PHA producer Newlight Technologies (USA) at the Cologne International Conference 2013 on Industrial Biotechnology and Bio-based Plastics & Composites

Bio-based materials sector is playing a major role in growth of the bio-based economy

1 May 2013

New plant protein discoveries could ease global food and fuel demands

Understanding the biology of plant transporters could improve varieties for edibles and energy use

23 April 2013

80% of Consumers Want to Buy “Green” Products

Roundtable Discussion was Moderated by Brent Erickson, Consulting Editor of Industrial Biotechnology

20 February 2013

Cornell University: Organisches Metamaterial

Hydrogelnetzwerk aus DNA entwickelt

4 December 2012

Order of importance:

Study finds prioritizing rather than canvassing entire plant genome may lead to improved crops

21 September 2012

Remarkable enzyme points the way to reducing nitric acid use in industry

Researchers develop a cytochrome P450 enzyme,called TxtE to catalyse an aromatic nitration reaction

14 August 2012

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