Technology:
Researchers
from Kobe University, Mitsui Chemical, and Nippon Shokubai developed a technology helpful to make high
quality plastics from scarp wood and wood debris. By the recombination of bacterial
gene, the new technology can extract specific type of lactic acid that is the
raw material of plastics at about four times higher efficiency than the
existing technology.
Several
types of lactic acids exist, and two types of lactic acids, L type and D type,
are helpful to make highly durable plastics. The net technology extracts cellulose
and hemicellulose after processing wood debris by chemical, and makes lactic
acid using lactic acid bacteria. L-lactic acid is easy to make, but D-lactic
acid is hard to make. The new technology makes D-lactic acid alone by
recombining the genes of lactic acid bacteria. The researchers plan to put the
new technology into practical use in five years to spread bioplastics.
Tableware made from corn
No comments:
Post a Comment