Day: 10. December 2015

As Avantium is preparing to build its first production plant of 2,5-furan dicarboxylic acid (FDCA), it has rreached agreement with Mitsui & Co. that the latter will be a major promotor for this substitute of PET in Japan and beyond. Mitsui sees good chances to co-develop packaging material from this source to a high-quality standard […]

The sheet-type sensor contains countless sensors 90 µm in diameter covered by platinum octaethylporphyrin as an oxygen-quenchable phosphorescent sensor. By using the oxygen content and the measurement time, the oxygen consumption kinetics of the cells present in the closed space of the sheet can be calculated. PLOS One DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143774