{"id":170539,"date":"2023-08-25T11:22:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T16:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/like-super-enzymes-chemists-develop-synthetic-catalysts-to-break-down-biomass"},"modified":"2023-08-25T11:22:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T16:22:41","slug":"like-super-enzymes-chemists-develop-synthetic-catalysts-to-break-down-biomass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/like-super-enzymes-chemists-develop-synthetic-catalysts-to-break-down-biomass","title":{"rendered":"Like Super Enzymes \u2014 Chemists Develop Synthetic Catalysts To Break Down Biomass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/like-super-enzymes-chemists-develop-synthetic-catalysts-to-break-down-biomass2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a drizzly afternoon, Yan Zhao pointed to the trees visible from his campus window.<\/p>\n<p>As a chemistry professor at <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/iowa-state-university\/\">Iowa State University<\/a>, he is pioneering the creation of novel synthetic catalysts that break down cellulose, the plant fibers responsible for the trees\u2019 height and strength.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCellulose is built to last \u2013 a tree doesn\u2019t just disappear after rain,\u201d Zhao said. \u201cCellulose is a huge challenge to break down.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a drizzly afternoon, Yan Zhao pointed to the trees visible from his campus window. As a chemistry professor at Iowa State University, he is pioneering the creation of novel synthetic catalysts that break down cellulose, the plant fibers responsible for the trees\u2019 height and strength. \u201cCellulose is built to last \u2013 a tree doesn\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}