Plastics, after aluminium, represent the second highest value material in the waste stream and have the highest projected growth rate.
Bioreactors are a core element to produce high-value materials in biological processes using animal cells.
But some see an ulterior motive in China's cutbacks: by controlling the supply of high-value materials, China can also control their use in finished products.
Complementing the natural intellectual curiosity that drives the creation of increasingly intricate particles is the pull from applications that take advantage of such high-value materials.
We create the infrastructure to do so, and we work on specific high-value materials problems - either on our own, or with other groups (theory and experiment) around the world.
It explores the potential of using waste materials obtained from the palm oil industry, used cooking oil, maize and tea plantations, as well as citrus-based plants for the production of useful, high-value materials such as pyroligenous acid and bio-oil (Chapter 1), ferulic acid (Chapter 4) and bio-control agents (Chapter 5-7, 9).
One important way synthetic biology connects with natural products of the known known variety is increasing the production of high-value materials with re-engineered pathways.
Additionally, after subsequent alkali fractionation, 8.14 to 12.22 kg lignin for 100 kg of initial fiber was recovered, which could be converted into high-value materials.
This new pretreatment is a low-cost, high-recovery, and environmentally friendly pretreatment method, which could combine with other high-value materials' extraction from algal biomass to achieve the complete utilization of alga.
The knowledge of the preferred substrates for each WS allows the use of yeast cells for the production of wax esters that are high-value materials and can be used in a variety of industrial applications.
