Access to a wide range of plastic materials has been rationalized by the increased demand
from growing populations and the development of high-throughput production systems …

Polymeric materials play a key role in modern industry. Owing to outstanding and very
versatile properties of polymers, they have rather quickly occupied the great niche of …

Enzymes are nature's catalysts that are designed to accelerate specific reactions up to 106
times with high selectivity. 1 The enormous potential of enzymes as catalysts for organic …

The various strategies for the valorisation of waste biomass to platform chemicals, and the
underlying developments in chemical and biological catalysis which make this possible, are …

The domain based local pair natural orbital coupled cluster method with single-, double-,
and perturbative triple excitations (DLPNO–CCSD (T)) is an efficient quantum chemical …

Biologists and engineers are making tremendous efforts in contributing to a sustainable and
green society. To that end, there is growing interest in waste management and valorisation …

Production of chemicals from biomass offers a promising opportunity to reduce US
dependence on imported oil, as well as to improve the overall economics and sustainability …

The transition from a fossil fuel-based economy to a bio-based economy necessitates the
exploitation of synergies, scientific innovations and breakthroughs, and step changes in the …

Lactic acid bacteria constitute a diverse group of industrially significant, safe microorganisms
that are primarily used as starter cultures and probiotics, and are also being developed as …

Anaerobic digestion (AD) has been in use for many decades. To date, it has been primarily
aimed at treating organic wastes, mainly manures and wastewater sludge, and industrial …