Extreme makeover chemistry style
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 23:28
in Physics & Chemistry
In revisiting a chemical reaction that's been in the literature for several decades and adding a new wrinkle of their own, researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have discovered a mild and relatively inexpensive procedure for removing oxygen from biomass. This procedure, if it can be effectively industrialised, could allow many of today's petrochemical products, including plastics, to instead be made from biomass...