Nine new projects join the B-BEST programme!

Discover the projects spread across the programme's various areas of focus.

Biomass characterization:

• Nano2BioReact: Establishing relationships between the nanoscale chemical properties of plant cell walls and their impact on biomass reactivity.

Understanding and controlling biological systems:

• CALIBRATE: Combining machine learning and high-throughput immobilisation to predict the stability of catalytic biocomposites for hybrid biorefineries.
• REPAROX: Identify and characterise the repair mechanism under oxidative conditions of an iron-sulphur biocatalyst and transpose this mechanism through ab initio design.
• STELLAR: Synthetic cell factories.

New biomass transformation pathways:

• EXTRAPEC: Enzymatic extraction of pectin-based detergents.
• GQD-BIOCAT: Upgrading of bio-based substrates in a single reactor via a hybrid process using graphene quantum dot photocatalysts and biocatalysis.
• HEMICELLULOSES: Sustainable integration of chemical and biochemical processes for the recovery of wood hemicellulose.

Cross-cutting methodologies and tools:

• BIOCaP-LCA: Integrated modelling of the bioeconomy for consequential and prospective life cycle assessment (LCA).
• SuPRTrYP: Methods for designing yeast consortia to convert non-conventional biomass co-products into tryptophan derivatives.