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- Summertime, and the Livin’ Is Easy…
- Follow-on-Biologics – More than Simple Generics
- Bacteria Versus Body Cells: A 1:1 Tie
- Behind the Crime Scene: How Biological Traces Can Help to Convict Offenders
- Every 3 Seconds Someone in the World Is Affected by Alzheimer's
- HIV – It’s Still Not Under Control…
- How Many Will Be Convicted This Time?
- Malaria – the Battle is Not Lost
- Physicians on Standby: The Annual Flu Season Can Be Serious
- At the Forefront in Fighting Cancer
- Molecular Motors: Think Small and yet Smaller Again…
- Liquid Biopsy: Novel Methods May Ease Cancer Detection and Therapy
- They Are Invisible, Sneaky and Disgusting – But Today It’s Their Special Day!
- How Many Cells Are in Your Body? Probably More Than You Think!
- What You Need to Know about Antibiotic Resistance – Findings, Facts and Good Intentions
- Why Do Old Men Have Big Ears?
- The Condemned Live Longer: A Potential Paradigm Shift in Genetics
- From Research to Commerce
- Chronobiology – How the Cold Seasons Influence Our Biorhythms
- Taskforce Microbots: Targeted Treatment from Inside the Body
- Eyes on Cancer Therapy
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Natural compounds can function as petroleum-based substitutes
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Elaine is aiming to convert biomass into usable chemicals. In her Post-doctoral research she converts, extracts, hydrolyses and depolymerizes natural biopolymers, such as cellulose and lignin with water to capture building block monomers and convert them to biobased, value-added products. Cellulose can be transformed to fermentable sugars, such as glucose and fructose. From other compounds fatty acids can be retrieved to be used for bioplastics or the retrieval of bio ethanol.
The platform molecules shall be used as substitute for petroleum-based molecules. A very special technique for making these compounds available, without using organic chemicals, is applied. Elaine uses water-based extraction methods by manipulating the properties of water to supercritical conditions as increasing the boiling point to extract the biopolymers by keeping the natural structure that would have been destroyed when using chemicals. The working group acts in close cooperation with industry partners.
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Elaine came from the Philippines to conduct her research in Spain many years ago. She dedicates her live to finding new ways of extracting valuable compounds from natural sources by applying very high pressure and manipulating water.
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