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In French Guiana, it is urgent to develop a biobased alternative to imported insulating products to ensure the construction of durable habitats in response to demographic pressure. The objective of the PANTHER project is to study a new valorisation model of Guyanese wood sector’s by-products for the

GLYCINE is one of the twenty-two genetically encoded amino acids required for protein synthesis in all living systems. Although not considered as an essential amino acid, it is of increasing interest in the nutraceutical, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industry with a production > 22000 tons in 2018 a

POP's objective is to formulate an alternative binder to petroleum bitumen traditionally used in the construction of flexible pavements. The goal is to anticipate the unavoidable scarcity of bitumen coming from fossil resources, which has already led to increasingly frequent supply disruptions. We w

The production of bio-sourced epoxy resin and flax fibre composite parts would permit to lower the environmental impact of automotive and aeronautics industries. These parts are however submitted to complex phenomena during processing, including thermal, chemical and hygroscopic strains. These pheno

The development of biobased chemicals and related materials is one of the challenges of sustainable chemistry. When oil exploitation will come to an end, society should be prepared to replace petro-derived molecules with new biobased ones, possibly of high functionality and available in large amount

Anaerobic digestion is a process of degradation of the organic matter carried out by a complex network of microorganisms that produces biogas rich in methane, which can be ultimately converted to energy. The process performance hinges on the structure and the interactions among the species in the mi

The European Commission has proposed a plan to make our agricultural system more sustainable and safer. In this context, the objectives of WALLDERIVE are to identify and produce new sugar molecules, of natural origin, capable of protecting plants against pathogens. Two plant/pathogen pairs are being

Microalgae may become a key biomass for the production of bio-based plastics, cultivable on non-arable lands with high surface productivities. The EG4BIOPLAST project focuses on Euglena gracilis, a particularly robust and versatile strain, which produces up to 80% in dry mass of paramylon, a linear

According to the New Circular Economy Action Plan of European Commission, circularity is an essential part of a wider transformation of industry towards climate-neutrality and long-term competitiveness. It can deliver substantial material savings along value chains and production processes, generate

Regencell aims at developing a new textile production process from wood or annual plants cellulose dissolving pulp, as an environmentally friendly and cost-efficient alternative to the existing viscose polluting process. Relying on promising exploratory results, 3 university laboratories and a techn

Post-translational glycosylation (PTG) impacts the intrinsic features of proteins, including properties and biological functions. Despite numerous data on PTG, its role in glycoside hydrolases (GHs) is far from been fully elucidated, especially regarding enzyme-substrate interactions and hydrolytic

In the rich landscape of soft colloids, fundamental understanding required to synthetize well defined “model” systems that are homogenous at different scales. For microgel, a free-defect structure reaches a homogenous crosslink density, without “loop” and free dandling chain, and a narrow distributi

The project MASTERS aims the groundbreaking electroconversion of the cellulosic biomass in order to power the transition to a sustainable circular bioeconomy. We will engineer customized electrocatalytic interfaces for the simultaneous co-production high-value chemicals of gluconate and glucarate pl

Water treatment in today's world is a cornerstone of sustainable development, because cleaning polluted water allows for meeting growing global demands without theoretically further exhausting limited water resources. Sustainability of membrane filtration technologies in water treatment, both techni

Natural deep eutectic solvents (NaDES) were recently described as eco-friendly solvent to perform selective and efficient extraction of molecules of interest from plants or algae. They can be composed of biorefinery products and coproducts. DES4Skin project propose to use NaDES as the base of comple

In the past years, surfactants produced from biomass have been intensively developed. However the high-quality fractions of biomass are in competition with food applications. Silk proteins appear as non-food natural polymers which utilization for surfactant production has been sparsely studied. The

The CosMoPoly project is aimed to design, synthesize and evaluate the biological properties of a portfolio of innovative biobased polyfunctional molecules dedicated to cosmetics and obtained from a building-blocks library available from agro-industries, biorefineries and chemical companies. The stra

Electronic devices printed on cellulosic substrates are in constant development for various applications and uses. They can, therefore, be found on packaging, magazines or labels and after usage, possibly disposed of in conventional selective sorting. These devices are made of more than 90% of cellu

Nowadays, approximately 60% of the world’s population uses herbal medicines, and plants are recognized as a source of therapeutically effective drugs. Natural products are an important source of new structural scaffolds and historically have always been a privileged source of inspiration in drug dis

The use of organic semiconductors in electronic devices offers interesting prospects, particularly in terms of significant reductions of weight and manufacturing cost. Nevertheless, these materials have several drawbacks, notably the non-reproducibility of the synthesis and the difficulty of purific