Novel biocatalytic system turns waste biomass into value-added chemicals
Thursday, February 20, 2020 - 09:40
in Physics & Chemistry
A research team, jointly led by Professor Ji Wook Jang, Professor Yong Hwan Kim, and Professor Sang Hoon Joo in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST, has unveiled a novel biomass conversion technology that can turn forestry biomass residues (i.e., sawdust from timber logging) into higher value fuels and chemicals. Published in the November 2019 issue of Nature Communications, the new technology is expected to reduce our dependency on products made from petrochemicals.