'Sweet' chemicals from a 'green' raw material
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 12:31
in Physics & Chemistry
The biobased world's traditional focus on producing fuels for cars, trucks and aircraft is quietly undergoing a major transition this summer toward production of chemicals needed for manufacture of hundreds of different consumer products, according to an article in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN). The cover story appears in the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.