Fossil fuel resources supply almost 90 percent of the world’s energy and the vast majority of its organic chemicals. This dependency is insupportable in light of rising emissions, demand and diminis...
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The platform molecule HMF is derived from biomass and converted into a variety of downstream products. One of the most important of these is FDCA, which is used as a monomer in the production of fiber...
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Commercial interest in the production of commodity chemicals from renewable sources continues to surge. Among these chemicals, α,ω-diols are particularly attractive because of the high market prices...
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Manufacturing paper and producing biofuels is difficult because the lignin in plant cell walls is tough to degrade. Current techniques are energy intensive and use harsh chemicals. In the case of biof...
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The platform molecule 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), produced from the dehydration of C6 sugars (hexoses), is considered to be one of the top value-added chemicals. The efficient production of HMF fro...
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Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic microorganisms capable of producing far more sugar per acre than corn, sugarcane or sugar beet. Unlike other bacteria and yeast, cyanobacteria use atmospheric CO2 as t...
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Paracetamol (acetaminophen) is an analgesic and fever-reducing medicine. It is an active ingredient in many widely sold over-the-counter medicines such as Tylenol and Panadol. As a prescription pharma...
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Lignocellulosic biomass is a renewable energy source with great potential for generating value-added chemicals. One of the major components of biomass is lignin (15-25 percent). Due to its infamously...
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Plant biomass remains a promising renewable source of important platform chemicals currently derived from petroleum. These include the chemical building blocks used to make polyurethanes (commonly fou...
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UW-Madison researchers have identified enzymes that are necessary and sufficient for the catabolism of the β-5 linked aromatic dimer dehydrodiconiferyl alcohol (DCA) by Novo. The first newly identifi...
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A collaborative team of researchers from UW-Madison, MIT, and National Lab of the Rockies (NLR) have developed an innovative approach for the generation of bio-based plasticizers from lignin from 4-hy...
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Researchers from UW-Madison, MIT, and NLR have developed a method for recycling Nylon 6. The method, embodied in a one-pot reactor, consists of ammonolysis followed by cyclodeamination and is realized...
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Researchers from UW-Madison, MIT, and NLR have developed a chemical process for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into muconic acid which is useful for the generation of plastics and polymers....
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Researchers from UW-Madison, MIT, and NLR have developed a chemical process for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into muconic acid which is useful for the generation of plastics and polymers....
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UW-Madison researchers have developed an improved method for separating purified lignin monomers from deconstructed biomass. The process couples the oxidative depolymerization of lignin, which produce...
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UW-Madison researchers found that Novo naturally produces the carotenoid nostoxanthin, which accumulates in its cells. Further, predicted nostoxanthin intermediates include a number of valuable carote...
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The present invention expands the substrate scope for Novo by enabling the use of the lignin-derived aromatic acetovanillone. The existing oxidative and reductive methods for lignin deconstruction res...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a method of using a combination of derivatives of lignin molecules to treat fungal pathogens. The researchers have studied a combination of two molecules that are...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a novel xylose fermenting S. cerevisiae yeast capable of converting xylose into ethanol. The researchers did an extensive analysis of xylose fermentation activity...
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UW-Madison researchers used metabolic engineering to generate recombinant microorganisms capable of producing the commodity chemical cis, cis-muconic acid (ccMA) from biomass-derived aromatics. The r...
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Introduced in the early 1900s, paracetamol (acetaminophen) is an active ingredient in many widely sold over-the-counter medicines such as Tylenol and today is the most commonly used medication for pai...
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A UW-Madison researcher is developing a bacterial mutant that will be capable of removing the inhibitory co-products from lignocellulosic biomass derived hydrolysates. The inventor started with Pseudo...
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Researchers from UW-Madison and other institutions have developed an improved alkaline pretreatment method for plant biomass that makes the production of lignocellulose-derived sugars for bio-based fu...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed an improved electrochemical valorization strategy that leverages an electrocatalyst capable of carrying out two-electron oxygen reduction reactions (2e- ORR). The...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a method to synthesize organocatalysts that can be engineered to mimic biological enzymes for use in a variety of industrially relevant chemical reactions. The or...
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