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Chementator: A less-expensive catalyst to make EG from cellulose

| By Gerald Ondrey

Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (China; www.english.dicp.ac.cn) and the University of Delaware (Newark; www.che.udel.edu) are developing a tungsten-carbide/nickel catalyst that degrades cellulose into polyols at 245°C and 60…