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3 January 202322 December 2022

To Make Valuable Bioproducts, Pick the Right Solvent Pretreatment

Three common solvents for pretreating switchgrass yield lignin extracts with the potential for making different valuable bioproducts


1 December 202228 November 2022

First 100% bio-based 3D-printed home unveiled at the University of Maine

New, 600-square-foot prototype features 3D-printed floors, walls and roof of wood fibers and bio-resins


14 November 20229 November 2022

Oregon State, U.S. Dept. of Energy researchers take key step toward big gains in plastics recycling

A collaboration led by NREL combined chemical and biological processes in a proof of concept and used chemical oxidation to break down a variety of plastic types


15 July 202212 July 2022

Closed-loop additive manufacturing fueled by upcycled plastic

Innovative method introduces a closed-loop strategy that could globally reduce plastic waste and cut carbon emissions tied to plastic production


7 July 20225 July 2022

Scientists Discover “Holy Grail of Catalysis” – Converting Methane Into Methanol Using Light

The method involves a continuous flow of methane/oxygen-saturated water over a novel metal-organic framework (MOF) catalyst


14 March 20228 March 2022

NREL Bioengineering Process Prepares To Make a Splash

Renewables To Replace Petroleum-Based Materials in Commercial Filtration Systems


3 March 202228 February 2022

Carbon-negative platform turns waste gases into valuable chemicals

Researchers built on LanzaTech technology to develop a new process that converts emissions from heavy industry or bio-based syngas, into either acetone or IPA, using an engineered bacterium called Clostridium autoethanogenum


2 March 202228 February 2022

Bacteria upcycle carbon waste into valuable chemicals

Engineered bacteria convert captured carbon dioxide into chemicals for fuels, fabric and cosmetics


Klimafreundliches Verfahren: Bakterien bilden Chemikalien aus CO2

Modifizierte Bakterien wandeln CO2 in Additive für Treibstoffe, Stoffe, und Kosmetika um


2 June 20219 September 2021

LanzaTech Awarded $4.1 Million from ARPA-E for Transformational Energy Technology

The funding will be used to enhance existing technology to enable the direct conversion of CO2 to ethanol — a building block for low carbon intensity fuels and chemicals


23 April 20219 September 2021

New process could bring down cost of direct carbon capture

A peptide-guanidine system soaks up CO2 from air and can be regenerated with mild heat


23 February 20219 September 2021

Carbon Capture – A Man-made Solution To Solve A Man-made Problem

Many of the companies, who were not that long ago considered progressive, oil majors etc now hold the key to solving the problem man has created


6 October 20206 October 2020

Multifunctional microbe simplifies processing of plant-derived fuels, chemicals

ORNL researchers got an organism to co-utilize multiple compounds in a single bioreactor, gaining a better understanding of how these different pathways interact


18 September 202016 September 2020

A new method for making a key component of plastics

Bacteria create ethylene in a tech-friendly way


19 August 202015 August 2020

Danimer Scientific Receives U.S. Department of Energy Grant to Support Bioplastic Production

Nearly $5.7 million in support to conduct research and development projects within the biomanufacturing industry


6 August 20203 August 2020

Agile BioFoundry Selects New Projects to Accelerate Biomanufacturing

Each of the ABF Directed Funding Opportunity awardees will be invited to collaborate with National Lab research facilities to conduct their proposed research


16 April 20209 April 2020

Lignin Research Yields Additional Answers into Bacteria’s Role

Newly published research builds upon previous observations at NREL on the ability of 14 strains of bacteria to break down lignin oligomers and take advantage of those components


Die Lignin-Forschung liefert zusätzliche Antworten auf die Rolle der Bakterien

Neu veröffentlichte Forschung nimmt frühere Beobachtungen am NREL auf und berichtet über die Fähigkeit von 14 Bakterienstämmen, Lignin-Oligomere abzubauen und diese Komponenten zu nutzen


1 April 202027 March 2020

Climate Disrupted: Lignin, Cellulose, and Starch Bioplastics, TSPs

There exist a big variety of biodegradable bioplastics that could be used to replace petro-based materials in 3D-printing


25 March 20209 September 2021

Department of Energy Announces $25 Million for Plastics Recycling R&D, Launches Upcycling Consortium

Department ’s Plastics Innovation Challenge is offering a comprehensive program to accelerate innovations in plastics recycling technologies


DOE offers $25 million for plastics recycling R&D

BETO issued a joint funding opportunity announcement on March titled “BOTTLE: Bio-Optimized Technologies to Keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment.”


23 January 202020 January 2020

Forscher machen Biosprit-Produktion billiger

Forscher der Rutgers University entwickeln effektive Konversionsmethode, um Pflanzenzucker in Ethanol umzuwandeln


How to Make it Easier to Turn Plant Waste into Biofuels

Rutgers-led team develops innovative process to rapidly dissolve plant fibers


4 December 201929 November 2019

Verdict’s in for Vertimass: Yep, it’s commercially viable

The innovative catalytic technology of one of the Digest's 'next 50 companies to disrupt the world' allows any feedstock for the conversion of biomass into fuels


14 November 201912 November 2019

Watch the World’s Largest 3D-Printer Spit Out a 25-Foot Boat

…and how this is really about using wood to replace metal


6 September 201931 August 2019

New Catalysts, Improved Genetic Tools Bring New Opportunities: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to ORNL’s Biomass to Bioproducts

Brian Davison, Chief Scientist for Biotechnology at ORNL, gave this knowledge-filled presentation at ABLC 2019 in Washington, D.C.


6 June 20193 June 2019

Biomass-based 3D printing, renewable solvents, fermentation-based CBD, coffee waste upcycling, algae-based ink, limestone paper and more

The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of May 31st


27 May 201922 May 2019

Researchers develop biobased, self-healing elastomer derived from lignin

To achieve these results, ORNL researchers developed a unique method to extract a specific form of lignin


15 May 201910 May 2019

University of Maine, Oak Ridge National Laboratory to announce $20 million 3D printing manufacturing partnership to boost forest products industry

Collaboration aims to strengthen regional manufacturing by connecting university–industry clusters with the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL


16 January 201911 January 2019

New composite advances lignin as a renewable 3D printing material

Lignin gives plants rigidity and also makes biomass resistant to being broken down into useful products


15 January 201915 January 2019

New composite advances lignin as a renewable 3D printing material

Finding new uses for lignin can improve the economics of the entire biorefining process


23 November 201821 November 2018

NREL: Nitrilation Process Produces Acrylonitrile, Attention, and Awards

Interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers across chemical engineering, biology, and computational modeling led to award-winning research about the nitrilation process


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


2 October 20189 September 2021

Chemists demonstrate sustainable approach to carbon dioxide capture from air

ORNL's direct-air-capture approach provides the basis for an energy-sustainable negative emissions technology


14 August 201823 January 2019

Cannabis, canola, solids, hog fuel, wheat: what’s new with food and feedstocks?

Feedstock that is — crops and residues of the municipal, industrial, agricultural and forest type


18 July 201811 August 2020

Taming the Tasmanian Devil of Polymers: lignin, the orneriest, roughest, toughest, most un-cooperative and abundant natural polymer ever

Lignin, the second most abundant natural polymer in the world, has developed into a sustainable and very satisfactory alternative to fossil fuels


27 February 201823 February 2018

Materials – Supertough bioplastic

ORNL researchers designed a new polymer adding tiny amounts of silicon-based materials to usual PLA


8 February 20186 February 2018

The Slowed Corrode: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Bio-oils and Corrosion

The team prepared this illuminating overview on the projects progress and promise for the DOE Project Peer Review meetings


1 December 20179 September 2021

Pollution to Products!

Efficient use of carbon is driven by carbon recycling technologies


23 August 201721 August 2017

3D printable resin: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to melt-stable engineered lignin thermoplastic

A novel family of commercial-ready, lignin-based 3D-printable composites


8 August 20171 August 2017

Fungi that Evolved to Eat Wood Offer New Biomass Conversion Tool

UMass Amherst microbiologists, international team show fungal deconstruction of wood


24 July 201721 July 2017

In search of next-gen bioproducts and fuels, DOE invests $40M in 4 Bioenergy Research Centers

The centers are designed to lay the scientific groundwork for a new bio-based economy that promises to yield a range of important new products


12 July 201710 July 2017

Biofuels beyond corn: The pathway from CO2, water and electricity to liquid fuels

Elctrofuels made from CO2, water and electricity - how close, how feasible?


17 May 201715 May 2017

Bacterial boost for bio-based fuels

Lab-scale technology recycles wastewater into hydrogen for use in fuel production


2 May 201726 April 2017

Lux Ranks Three Potential Bioplastics for Building LEGO’s 2030 Sustainable Brick

After interviewing LEGO Director in Materials Department Søren Kristiansen, Lux highlights the materials that LEGO is likely considering for its bricks


17 March 201715 March 2017

Recent Lignin Announcements Show Repeated Mistakes, Not Progress

Traditional approaches have already failed and focus on different strategies for lignin-based material commercialization has to be prefered


6 March 20179 September 2021

Separating Gases with Graphene

Single-layer graphene has defined pore sizes in the nanometer range and has been suggested as a material for gas separation


20 February 20179 September 2021

Reverse Combustion and its prospects

There are more than a dozen technologies somewhere in development with a dizzying array of acronyms


20 October 20169 September 2021

Nano-spike catalysts convert carbon dioxide directly into ethanol

High-selectivity electrochemical conversion of CO2 to ethanol using a copper nanoparticle/N-doped graphene electrode


15 August 201612 August 2016

Feedstocks for the Bioeconomy: The Digest’s 2016 Multi-Slide Behind the Scenes look at the Billion Ton report

Matthew Langholtz of Oak Ridge National Laboratory gave a view at scope and findings

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