{"id":15592,"date":"2012-03-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20120313-01n"},"modified":"2012-03-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T22:00:00","slug":"new-nano-catalyst-could-be-biggest-bioplastic-breakthrough-in-three-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/new-nano-catalyst-could-be-biggest-bioplastic-breakthrough-in-three-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"New nano-catalyst could be biggest bioplastic breakthrough in three decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A new nano-catalyst being developed by chemical giants Dow could help the company commercialise a process for making traditional plastics from biomass, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/335\/6070\/835.abstract\" >research<\/a> published in the journal Science.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The new catalyst is made of tiny spheres of iron and could significantly increase the efficiency of converting synthesis gas to lower olefins.<\/p>\n<p>Lower olefins are the key building blocks for manufacturing plastics, cosmetics and even pharmaceuticals. Traditionally, these molecules are produced by cracking crude oil-derived naphtha, but there is a pressing need to find alternative feedstocks and processes because of supply limitations and environmental issues.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full Text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nnfcc.co.uk\/news\/new-nano-catalyst-could-be-biggest-bioplastic-breakthrough-in-three-decades\" >http:\/\/www.nnfcc.co.uk\/news\/new-nano-catalyst-could-be-biggest-bioplastic-breakthrough-in-three-decades<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: nano-catalyst, bio-based polyethylene<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>A new nano-catalyst being developed by chemical giants Dow could help the company commercialise a process for making traditional plastics from biomass, according to research<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[372,2315,1312],"class_list":["post-15592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-dow-chemical-company","supplier-nnfcc","supplier-utrecht-university-nl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15592"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}