For decades,lignin-the rigid polymer that gives plants their structure-has been the“problem child”of green chemistry.When processed,its molecules tangle like stubborn knots,forming useless clumps.Then came 2024’s t...For decades,lignin-the rigid polymer that gives plants their structure-has been the“problem child”of green chemistry.When processed,its molecules tangle like stubborn knots,forming useless clumps.Then came 2024’s transformative solution-breaking lignin’s tangles at the molecular level.In that May,a team led by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)came up with an approach to make this“knotty problem”profitable by hacking lignin’s chemistry to spin it into bio-bisphenols.展开更多
文摘For decades,lignin-the rigid polymer that gives plants their structure-has been the“problem child”of green chemistry.When processed,its molecules tangle like stubborn knots,forming useless clumps.Then came 2024’s transformative solution-breaking lignin’s tangles at the molecular level.In that May,a team led by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)came up with an approach to make this“knotty problem”profitable by hacking lignin’s chemistry to spin it into bio-bisphenols.
