Chemicals

ORNL has developed a tightly controlled inducible promoter that can activate gene expression in a time- and dose-dependent manner in the thermophilic bacterium C. thermocellum.

The technologies described provides for the upcycling of mixed plastics to muonic acid and 3-hydroxyacids.

Capture of CO2 either from points sources or directly from air is a practical way of decreasing CO2 emissions and tackle global warming. Among all the known CO2 capture technologies, absorption-based system is technologically the most matured.

This invention is for bacterial strains that can utilize lignocellulose sugars. This will improve the efficiency of bioproduct formation in these strains and reduce the greenhouse-gas emission of an industrial bi

This invention improves the initial treatment process for stainless steel (SS) electrode activation, resulting in nickel-rich SS electrodes that perform exceptionally well in oxygen evolution reactions (OER), ranking among the best compared to all other nickel-iron-based

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. With its global warming potential of more than 80x of CO2 over a 20-year period or more than 25x over a 100-year period, oxidizing methane to CO2 is an effective pathway to reduce its environmental impact.

Most plastic is discarded after a single use, with about 76 percent of plastic waste discarded into landfills annually. The current practice is wasting feedstock resources, energy, and carbon used for their production.

ORNL has developed bacterial strains that can utilize a common plastic co-monomer as a feedstock. This will help enable modern, petroleum-derived plastics to be converted into value-added chemicals.