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What a 'self-sustaining' glucose reaction means for greener chemical manufacturing
- March 26, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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A Korean research team, led by Dr. Young Kyu Hwang, Dr. Kyung-Ryul Oh, and Dr. Jihoon Kim at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) has developed a circular low-carbon catalytic process that co-produces gluconic acid—a key ingredient in detergents and pharmaceuticals—and sorbitol, widely used in sweeteners and cosmetics, using only glucose.
Originally published at Phys.org