Harnessing 'waste' biomass to make modified cellulose with valuable rheological properties

这个项目的目标是EPSRC不断增长的化学生物学和生物化学研究领域。它包含了既具有根本意义又具有工业适用性的新颖研究，可以从自然中创造新材料--特别是从‘废弃’纸浆生物质中创造新材料。通过开发新的、无污染的工艺，目标是生产出具有令人向往的物理性能的高价值材料，特别是粘度可控的材料。从农业食品工业下游可获得的廉价、富含纤维素的材料(例如甜菜糖浆和提取富含糖和维生素的果汁后的胡萝卜)开始，目的是制造有价值的非天然材料--合成生物学的一个例子，应用于一个新颖和令人兴奋的物理化学科学研究方案，以造福于农业技术。

This project targets the EPSRC's growing Research Area of Chemical Biology and Biological Chemistry. It comprises novel research that is both of fundamental interest and has industrial applicability in creating new materials from Nature - specifically from 'waste' pulp biomass. By developing new, non-polluting procedures, the aim is to generate high-value materials with sought-after physical properties, especially a controllable viscosity. Starting with cheap, cellulose-rich materials available downstream of agri-food industries (e.g. pulp from sugar-beet and carrots after extraction of the sugar- and vitamin-rich juices), the aim is to make valuable non-natural materials - an example of synthetic biology applied to a novel and exciting physicochemical science research programme for the benefit of agricultural technologies.