A new biofuels breakthrough by the research team of Paul Dauenhauer, Chemical Engineering Department, was published in Energy & Environmental Science, Issue 1, 2012, the number-one-ranking journal in the world for its subject matter. The article, entitled “Revealing pyrolysis chemistry for biofuels production: Conversion of cellulose to furans and small oxygenates,” describes the development of a new experimental technique called "thin-film pyrolysis" to study high-temperature biomass chemistry. The article was considered so significant that it was highlighted in another prestigious journal, Nature Chemistry, whose impact factor is first among all primary research journals in chemistry. Read the Nature Chemistry article: http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v4/n2/full/nchem.1259.html.
