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

利用“废弃”生物质制造具有有价值的流变特性的改性纤维素

• 批准号: 2114895
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2114895
• 关键词: Harnessing; waste; biomass; make; modified

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.

该项目针对 EPSRC 不断发展的化学生物学和生物化学研究领域。它包括新颖的研究，这些研究既具有根本利益，又具有工业适用性，可以从自然界（特别是从“废”纸浆生物质）中创造新材料。通过开发新的无污染程序，目标是生产具有广受追捧的物理性能（尤其是可控粘度）的高价值材料。从农业食品工业下游可用的廉价、富含纤维素的材料（例如，在提取富含糖和维生素的果汁后从甜菜和胡萝卜中提取的果肉）开始，目标是制造有价值的非天然材料——这是合成生物学应用于新颖且令人兴奋的物理化学科学研究项目的一个例子，以促进农业技术的发展。