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Introduction

This page summarizes the project's original objective and results. The scientific publications resulted from the project are listed at the end of the page and are open to access at the publishers' websites via provided links. The publications and conference materials that resulted from the project are openly accessible through the SUBLUBE Collection in the Zenodo repository.

What is the SUBLUBE Project?

The SUBLUBE Project [Cascade Hydrolytic Recovery and Conversion of Suberin in High Pressure Media] is a research and fellowship grant awarded to Dr. Elaine G. Mission to carry out research in Europe. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 894088. The project is hosted by the Instituto Bioeconomia of the Valladolid University in Valladolid, Spain under the supervision of Prof. Maria Jose Cocero. It has an overall budget of €172,932.48. It will run for two years from October 15, 2020.  The official fact sheet for the project is available on the CORDIS website.

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Objectives

Recovery

recover pristine suberin from cork industry byproducts through a cascaded fractionation-hydrolysis process with supercritical water as reaction media

Conversion

convert pristine suberin into highly functionalized biolubricant building block through subcritical water hydrolysis

LATEST NEWS

International Research Organization for Advanced Science and Technology (IROAST) Kumamoto featured Dr. Mission and Prof. Cocero on their news.
​Dr. Mission's proposal was shortlisted in the 2021 Chemistry for Climate Action Challenge of The Elsevier Foundation.
The article "Accessing suberin from cork via ultrafast supercritical hydrolysis" published in the Green Chemistry Journal.
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