Development of Cereal-Based Biorefineries for the Production of Biodegradable Plastics and Platform Chemicals
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Colin Webb, Apostolis A. Koutinas, Chenyu Du, Ruohang Wang, Yunji Xu, Sze Ki Carol Lin, Rafael Luque, James H Clark School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, The University of Manchester, Satake Centre for Grain Process Engineering, PO Box 88, Sackville St, Manchester, M60 1QD, United Kingdom Chemistry Department, Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, The University of York, York, United Kingdom
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