As plastic waste continues to build up faster than it can decompose, the need for biodegradable solutions is evident. Previously, Professor Yutaka Amao and his team at Osaka Metropolitan University's ...
Fumaric acid is a C4 dicarboxylic acid of high industrial value, serving as a food acidulant, pharmaceutical intermediate and monomer precursor. Microbial fermentation offers a sustainable alternative ...
BASF is working with three German universities to ferment sugar and carbon dioxide into fumaric acid with the bacterium Basfia succiniciproducens. Fumaric acid, used as a food acidulant and in ...