The bacterial membrane enzyme styrene oxide isomerase can convert toxic compounds into valuable materials. Selvapravin Kumaran, a doctoral student in Professor Dirk Tischler's Microbial Biotechnology ...
Polystyrene is made from styrene building blocks and is the most widely used plastic in terms of volume, for example in packaging. Unlike PET, which can now be produced and recycled using ...
“Several million tons of styrene are produced and transported every year,” says Dirk Tischler. “In the process, some of it also gets released unintentionally into the environment.” This is not the ...