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Ali Chamas

Institution
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
ORCID
ORCID logo 0000-0001-8739-8880

Projects

Operando spectroscopic studies of solvo-catalytic lignin disassembly

Lead Institution
University of California, Santa Barbara
Principal Investigator
Susannah Scott
Project type
Exploratory Research
Lignocellulosic biomass represents an abundant and renewable resource that could displace a significant amount of the nation’s petroleum, but its widespread utilization will require the development…

Advanced Molecular Characterization of Solvo-Catalytic Lignin Disassembly

Lead Institution
Washington University in St. Louis
Principal Investigator
Marcus Foston
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Lignin obtained from lignocellulosic biomass is an abundant, renewable, low-cost resource whose carbon-rich, aromatic composition makes it ideal to displace some petroleum-based feedstocks as…

Waterborne Plastics Environmental Weathering Leachates

Lead Institution
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Benjamin Maurer
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Aquatic plastics pollution is anticipated to triple globally by 2040, and many of the effects of aquatic plastics and associated degradation products and contaminants are hitherto unknown. This…