Materials of the future extracted from wastewater
Turning harvested biomass from wastewater treatment plants into sustainable products is now possible on an industrial scale, according to researchers based at Aalborg University in Denmark, in collaboration with Aarhus University, and Delft University in the Netherlands.
In a treatment plant, there are several hundred different kinds of bacteria. Each bacterial species produces its own type of biopolymer with different properties. An ongoing part of the project is to determine which bacteria there are, determine what polymers they make, determine what characteristics they have, and find out what they can be used for.
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