MSU BioEconomy Network news

Jeff Sakamoto, MSU professor of materials science and engineering, will speak at the MSU Bioeconomy Institute in Holland on Wed., Feb. 29 at 4:00 PM. The talk, entitled "Improving charge acceptance and safety through highly-ordered and hierarchical electrodes for lithium ion batteries and fast ion conducting ceramic oxide electrolytes" is part of the Experts Exchange: Opportunities in Bio-Innovation speaker series.

Michigan State University researcher Bruce Dale was named one of the top 100 people in bioenergy by Biofuels Digest, a daily online publication.

A Michigan State University researcher is using a $1.92 million Department of Defense grant to develop a portable wastewater treatment system that could improve the military’s efficiency.

The solar-bio-nano project, which is being spearheaded by Wei Liao, an MSU assistant professor of biosystems and agricultural engineering, also will generate energy and produce drinking water, thus providing a potential blueprint for the future of municipal/agricultural wastewater treatment systems. 

Zsuzsanna Fluck, associate professor of finance and director of the Broad College's Center for Venture Capital, Private Equity & Entrepreneurial Finance (CVCPEEF), has been awarded $30,000 by the Michigan Initiative for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MIIE) for a research project with Lisa D. Cook, assistant professor of economics and international relations, Department of Economics, and James Madison College.

Could switchgrass, a perennial warmseason grass that is native to North America and can be made into renewable biofuel, be used to help power steam plants? And replace non-renewable fossil fuels such as petroleum and coal in the process? That's what Doo-Hong Min, MSU AgBioResearch forages/bioenergy crop scientist and Extension specialist, has been helping his research partners try to discover.