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Gregg Beckham

Institution
National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Projects

Towards understanding enzymatic diversity in biological lignin degradation

Lead Institution
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Gregg Beckham
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Lignin is an alkyl-aromatic polymer comprising 15-30% of plant cell walls. It is underutilized in selective conversion processes to produce renewable fuels and chemicals from plant biomass, and is…

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…