LPDC Journal Club #8 🌱🚀 Exciting news from the lab of Prof. Bert Sels at KU Leuven, in RSC Energy Journals. Purified solvents are no longer necessary for an efficient reductive catalytic fractionation of wood. #sustainable #biorefinery processes Read more👇 doi.org/10.1039/D3EE00…

LPDC Journal Club #9 Exciting eco-friendly polymer development! Prof. Geoff Coates from CornellChemistry has produced a recyclable 1000+kDa UHMW pDXL with excellent physical properties similar to UHMWPE, with a metal free process Learn more in J. Am. Chem. Soc. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Throwback to a great evening! Our Farzaneh successfully defended her thesis focusing on liquid-phase ALD application. EPFL Chemistry We will miss you!! Good luck with the rest of your carrier !

I was humbled to talk yesterday at #CSC2023 about my journey as a gay person in Chemistry. We are underrepresented and less retained in STEM, but things are changing! A lot of it thanks for the work of allies such as Working for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity 🏳️‍🌈

What an inspiring week for LPDC! 🚀 Part of the team had the chance to present their work at the #biobased #materials Gordon Research Conference in Maine. Thanks to the chairs for the great organisation URD ABI Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) And special congrats to Marie for the best poster prize !

Congrats to our #BikeToWork team with a total of 1155km ! EPFL Chemistry Sustainability in and outside the lab!

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I'm honored to represent the Canadian scientific community 🇨🇦 at EPFL 🇨🇭 as a holder of the #Banting post-doctoral fellowship. Thanks for all the support Audrey Moores and Jeremy Luterbacher 🙂 Looking forward to sharing the cool nanoscience I've been doing at Laboratory of Sustainable and Catalytic Processing 🧪

Great to see how well-represented our #NCCRCatalysis team was at Swiss Chemical Society #SCSFall2023 🧑‍🔬  🎉Congrats to Thomas Moragues (deMello Group Javier Perez-Ramirez), Anastasiia Komarova (Laboratory of Sustainable and Catalytic Processing), & Jeff Guo (LIAC at EPFL) for winning Best & Runner-up (x2) Presentation Awards! 🎉

This week we broke the marmite de l'Escalde following this Geneva tradition brought to us by our favorite genevoise Yildiz 🍫🇨🇭

Congrats Lorenz for the Doctoral Thesis Award! We are very proud of you 🥇

Merry Xmas from the whole LPDC team 🎄🎅🏼🎁

Allez team LPDC! We had a lot of fun at the Lausanne Xmas Run with team Bloom Biorenewables Ltd 🏃🏃‍♀️

Global Women’s Breakfast 2024 is about Catalyzing Diversity in Chemistry, and we're thrilled to announce the speakers Kara Branch, MBA, LSSGB (Black Girls Do Engineer Corporation), Dr Laena D'Alton, and Charlie Simms (Periodically Ox). Register here: bit.ly/iycn-gwb-2024

Exciting breakthrough in sustainable plastics! ♻️ Our latest paper on NatureSustainability showcases catalyst-free, melt polymerization of dimethyl glyoxylate xylose—derived from agricultural waste—to create high-performance polyamides. nature.com/articles/s4189…

Here we go with our second feature of the NCCR Catalysis #Trailblazers series on exceptional individuals breaking barriers! 🤩 Meet Dr. Anastasiia Komarova from EPFL Chemistry in the group of Jeremy Luterbacher Laboratory of Sustainable and Catalytic Processing. 💬 Full interview: nccr-catalysis.ch/news/nccr-cata…

Unlocking the mysteries of lignin structure just got easier! In our latest article in Angewandte Chemie, we introduce a rapid NMR method for precise quantification of native lignin's structural features. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…