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Renewable Bioproducts

Biomass.

Focusing on biomass conversion technologies for value-added products.

Research in this area includes:

Bioproducts manufacturing: Sustainable transformation of renewable bioresources into materials, chemicals, fuels and energy, bio-based polymers, adhesives, biodegradable plastics, biocomposites, and nanomaterials.
Biomanufacturing, biotechnology and bioprocessing: microbial engineering, synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, genetic modification of organisms, bioprocessing, etc.
Innovation in wood science and forest products.

Faculty researching this area

Brett Barney
Mrinal Bhattacharya
Xiaowen Chen
Veluchamy Chitraichamy
Omar Espinoza
Bo Hu
Shri Ramaswamy
Roger Ruan
Steve Severtson
William T.Y. Tze
Bo Wang
Jiwei Zhang
Hua Zhao

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Dept. of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering
612-625-5200
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BBE North (Kaufert Laboratory)
2004 Folwell Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55108

BBE South (Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Building)
1390 Eckles Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55108

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