© Photo Fraunhofer IGB Various raw materials as building blocks for plastics.
A process for manufacturing high-quality plastics from terpenes, a waste stream of the cellulose production has been developed by Fraunhofer researchers. Even if fossil resources got much cheaper in the last years there are big efforts to replace standard plastics by substances made from renewable resources. A reduced consumption of fossil resources is especially important because of the climate change caused by the release of CO2. Apart from the production of biodegradable polymers, for example for packaging applications, there is a big interest in high performance materials made from renewable resources.
The synthesis of polyamides from terpenes was developed at BioCat – Bio, Electro and Chemocataysis, the Str...
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