CO2 as a raw material for plastics and other products_Fraunhofer Representative Office Beijing

CO2 as a raw material for plastics and other products

Separation smear for isolation of single colonies of M. extorquens AM1 on a methanol-containing minimal medium agar plate.

Carbon dioxide is one of the main drivers of climate change – which means that we need to reduce CO2 emissions in the future. Fraunhofer researchers are highlighting a possible way to lower these emissions: They use the greenhouse gas as a raw material, for instance to produce plastics. To do this, they first produce methanol and formic acid from CO2, which they convert via microorganisms into building blocks for polymers and the like.

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