Administrator – IRIS-INNOVATION

Presentation of the web-based MyToolBox platform

IRIS attended both EC project MyToolBox Project Management Board (PMB) and Project Management Committee (PMC) meetings in Amsterdam the 14th and 15th of March, 2018. In there we were involved in tackling the necessary decisions to advance properly in the project by taking into consideration the Gantt and the deliveries for the upcoming months. Moreover, […]

Better bio (1st issue): The highest performance material on Earth is now bio!

Not only bio sourcing is often more sustainable (not by essence, but because it comes with a renewable credential), it can also sometimes exceed the properties of other materials. Let’s take a few examples starting with one that made a buzz in the recent weeks: Graphene has been at the core of intensive research for [...]

Duckweed double duty in pig slurry bioremediation

As meat consumption grows worldwide, intensive livestock production is predicted to keep increasing, and consequently the amounts of manure. According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) pig farming is currently the main source of animal protein for human nutrition. Pig slurry, manure plus liquid waste of farms, is a rich [...]

Better bio (2nd issue): biobased building blocks and materials with no equivalent fossil-based counterparts!

Although, bio-based materials developers generally actually try to reach similar performance to those of long term established petrochemicals counterparts, there are also a few emerging bio-based materials that actually outperform their predecessors and can create new value propositions. To harvest their full potential, the BBI-JU PPP has already set several calls to action for such [...]