18 July 202415 July 2024 Recyclables from wood waste for energy storage and environmental technology Research team takes lignin waste from the timber industry to develop materials that can be used to build and recycle sustainable batteries
14 February 202412 February 2024 Bayreuth scientists find a close-loop recycling process for one of the most widely used plastics A pioneering development enables the targeted replication of the chemical structure of low-density polyethylene (LDPE), a plastic that has been difficult to imitate until now, and shows great potential for sustainable alternatives in the plastics industry
6 December 202330 November 2023 New approach to the sensible utilisation of carbon dioxide from car exhaust gases Utilizing impure CO2 from car exhaust, the team of Prof. Dr. Shoubik Das, Chair of Organic Chemistry I at the University of Bayreuth, presents in a paper, which was published in Nature Communications, a cost-effective synthetic route for γ-lactams