News from and for members of the KNCV

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News for and by our members

  1. FDCA building block from sugars for biobased plastic

    Marc Lankveld explains how start-up Tasseikan is producing an important building block for PEF, the biobased plastic that can replace PET.

    Marc Lankveld legt uit hoe start-up Tasseikan een belangrijke bouwsteen maakt voor PEF, het biobased plastic dat PET kan vervangen.
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  2. Glow-in-the-dark STD testing

    Yosta de Stigter is working on a rapid, luminous STD test.

    Yosta de Stigter werkt aan een snelle, lichtgevende SOA-test.
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  3. MOFs are awarded the long-awaited Nobel Prize

    ‘Well deserved’ and ‘It was only a matter of time’. That, in a nutshell, is the reaction from the MOF community to today’s award of the Nobel Prize to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for the development of metal-organic frameworks. ‘Thanks to Kitagawa and Yaghi, I’m never bored.’

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  4. Biobtx develops technology for sustainable aromatics

    BioBTX has developed technology to sustainably manufacture high-performance materials by converting waste into chemical building blocks.

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